"shuji matsuda" <shuji__matsuda@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> 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.

That is like violating a girl and afterwards calling her a slut.  From the
very beginning gaining economic privileges was a primary objective for
Japan's annexation of Korea.  Yes, Korea was poor by the standards of a
modernized Japan that had had a half-century headstart on development from
her own backward roots, but Korea remained poor for far longer because of
Japan's surgical exploitation of her resources.  The "burden" was the result
of Japan's rapacity.

> 20 % of the revenue of the peninsula was a direct support from the central
> Japanese government.

Which were chiefly expenditures for installing systems for plundering Korea.

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

To USAOL: Most people know that war criminals are not the only ones
enshrined at Yasukuni.  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.

> 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.

> 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."
>
> http://homepage2.nifty.com/harunoutage/f13.htm