"min10011" <min10011@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> "USA" <USA@aol.com> wrote in message
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> > "min10011" <min10011@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> > <snipped>
> >
> > > To USAOL: Most people know that war criminals are not the only ones
> > > enshrined at Yasukuni.
> >
> > I totally disagree with your statement. This issue is argued almost
> > constantly in the Korean, China and
> > Japan NGs and ALWAYS there are posters who are not aware of this fact.
> > It is to your credit that you do know this.
>
> That sounds like another exaggeration.  I have not read anyone claim that
> Yasukuni honors *specifically and only* war criminals.  Right away the
> entire content of such a post would have to be considered rubbish.
>
> > >  However, the VAST majority are IJA soldiers from
> > > WW2.  It should reveal something to you of Japan's gradually shifting
> > > attitudes about the war that the war criminals were enshrined long
after
> > the
> > > war's end.
> > >
> > When were they enshrined?
>
> 1978.
>
> > > > Yasukuni also has a shrine dedicated for all the war victims
> regardless
> > of
> > > > the affiliation.  This is probably hard to understand for people
with
> > > > different cultural backgrounds.
> > >
> > > That contradiction is not hard to understand if one sees Japan as a
> > national
> > > case of passive-aggressive personality disorder.
> > >
> >
> > Is it really? Do you know that at the United States Military Academy at
> West
> > Point New York
> > (US Army Officer's School) there is a memorial dedicated to the North
> > Vietnamese Soldier?
> > I find a correlation here with the memorial for the North Korean spies
in
> > Japan that Matsuda mentioned.
> >
>
> What?  You cannot be that stupid.  West Point does not memorialize the
> remains of Class A war criminals.  End of your comparison.

Sorry, rather rude of me.  Your post was actually civil.  Scratch the stupid
part.