Path: ccsf.homeunix.org!ccsf.homeunix.org!news1.wakwak.com!nf1.xephion.ne.jp!onion.ish.org!honnetnews!news.gw.fukushima-u.ac.jp!news.tains.tohoku.ac.jp!newsfeed.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!newsfeed2.dti.ad.jp!newsfeed1.dti.ad.jp!jpix!nntp2.iprev.net!nntp1.iprev.net!giga-nspixp2!spinnewsgate!attnet-tokyo!not-for-mail From: Scott Reynolds Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan,fj.life.in-japan,soc.culture.korean,alt.history,soc.history Subject: Re: Why did MAcarthur refer to japanese as 12 year olds? Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2004 16:17:47 +0900 Organization: JENS Internet Service Lines: 16 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: 26.pool5.dsl8mtokyo.att.ne.jp Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: newsflood.tokyo.att.ne.jp 1080285469 1099 165.76.253.26 (26 Mar 2004 07:17:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: newsadm@newsflood.tokyo.att.ne.jp NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2004 07:17:49 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.5 (Windows/20040207) X-Accept-Language: en,ja In-Reply-To: Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org fj.life.in-japan:12885 On 3/26/2004 3:30 PM, Brett Robson wrote: > On 25 Mar 2004 21:39:54 -0800, SuperOutland ... > >>I've heard it quoted that MAcarthur said "the japanese should be >>treated like they're 12 year old". > > Do you have an authoritve source for that as I have never found one. This is one of those topics that pops up from time to time. You can find some discussion of it (along with quotations) here: http://tinyurl.com/2xoqa -- _______________________________________________________________ Scott Reynolds sar@gol.com