in article 2tn062F20ot9oU1@uni-berlin.de, m.yoshida at masa@yahoo.co.jp
wrote on 10/20/04 8:23 PM:

> Mr. Schaal,
> 
> Why are you asking me such questions? Why are you using
> such terms as "afraid of", "ashamed of" and "bigotry". I hardly
> provided my view here in this thread, but just said that my
> position is closed to Professor Hata's one and that Chinese
> are more emotional and political than Japanese.

You also said that they tend to exaggerate. Overall, your comments that they
are more emotional and political than Japanese, and that they tend to
exaggerate would lead to the reasonable inference that you are bigoted
against Chinese in general. Such bigotry is something that a moral person
would be ashamed of.

> As far as I read the relevant references, I agree with Prof.
> Hata's conclusions.  Saying "one thinks" is not meaningful so
> much in this kind of historical discussion (although casual),
> if one did not witness the atrocities at all which took place
> over 60 years ago.

Professor Hata's conclusions sound like a blanket denial of the atrocities
and I wanted to know if you thought so too. The denial of the atrocities has
been a sore point with the Chinese, Koreans, Taiwanese, etc. for over fifty
years.