Eric Takabayashi <etakajp@yahoo.co.jp> wrote:
> mtfester@netscape.net wrote:

>> Then what have you been ranting for  for the past 20-30 posts, with your
>> constant refrain of "they don't know anything about it, why don't they
>> know?", etc?
>>
>> Just color commentary?

> I didn't say and don't believe that they don't know anything. But it's true they don't know.

Oooooooooooooooook.

Care to try that in English?

>> I'm sorry; I'm supposed to look at the cyber-musings of a bunch of ex-pats
>> and ex-ex-pats for what they think of Japanese writings in national
>> newspapers, is that correct?

> It would give you an indication that you shouldn't put much stock in the simple fact something
> makes the letters to the paper.

Right; after all, several thousand letters written over the course of
more than a decade addressing the same issues are utterly irrelevant
to the "fact" that you know what you're talking about.

>> So sorry, I fail to see how anything they say could refute the fact that
>> ACCOUNTS of the incidents have been printed in national media.

> They could say, Japanese don't know, because they don't.

OK, they know, but they don't know, though they publish it, right?

>> > No, because I never claimed Japanese knew nothing.

could you explain the above, in light of your statement above:

"They could say, Japanese don't know, because they don't." 

>> So, you claim they know about it, but...
>>
>> OK, you've lost me. You've claimed several times the general public knew
>> nothing of (eg) Unit 731, about now you claim that you never claimed that?

> Because I didn't claim and don't believe that they know nothing.

"They could say, Japanese don't know, because they don't."

I'm getting surrealled-out here.
 
>> You use words in a way completely at odds with more accepted usages, Mr
>> Takabayashi.

> Nope. "Don't know" doesn't mean nothing, 

So, you mean they "don't know", except for the stuff they "do know".

I am enlightened.

>> Well, lessee; invading and inflicting harm upon their neighbors, Murayama
>> actually mentioned medical experiments, etc.

> Define "apologize" according to their usage.

UH, "we done wrong"?

"it was our fault"?

> of Japanese wrongdoing before Koizumi,

I don't recall mentioning PMs before Koizumi.

Could you refresh my memory with a quote from me please?

>> Then you don't follow the media.

> Yes I do. And Japanese still don't know.

But they do know; but they don't.

According to you.

["Mass grave" discussion]

>> I see; is this a secret between you and someone else, or what?

> No, it's a secret of the Japanese government.

Then how did you find out?

>> I am also pointing out to you that you seem quite ignorant of things which
>> have appeared in the media of the course of the years,

> Why does simple appearance in the media,

It does rather refute your claims that the government is trying to hide this,
since NHK is rather funded by the government...

>> and that as such,
>> your protestations seem hollow: information has been made available, yet
>> you claim not to have seen it.

> I claim not to have seen what?

Uh, info that the Unit 731 stuff was published in the 60s?

Mike