In article <ySXIa.703$Lo6.162@nwrdny03.gnilink.net>, 
"USA" <USA@aol.com> wrote:
:If the US hadn't and Japan wasn't losing the
:war, I see no reason why they would "abandon" Korea.

In a short term, I agree.

However, Korean Peninsula would have been nothing but a burden to Japan 
except for the national security reasons.  A good international secruity 
organization would have been an enough reason to abandon Korean Peninsula. 
Prewar Korea was so poor that individual income tax was exempted until 
1934,  just 11 years before the end of the war.  20 % of the revenue 
of the peninsula was a direct support from the central Japanese government.

:It is a HUGE MYTH that is perpetrated by anti-japanese fanatics that the
:Ysukuni shrine honors specficially and only the War Criminals.

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.

The same thing goes with the recent NK spy ship which sank in East China Sea.
Recently, the ship was made open to the public.  There is a small memorial
flower place near the ship, which says:
2001年12月22日
九州南西海域で沈んだ朝鮮民主主義人民共和国の若者達に捧げる
"Dedicated to the DPRK youths sank in the sea in South West of Kyushu."

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