<grunt100@msn.com> wrote in message
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> > On 20 Jun 2003 01:19:57 -0700, bartron2k2@hotmail.com (Makoto
> > Taniguchi) wrote:
> > >I am saying that there are Korean people who still resent the modern
> > >Japanese for what happened in WWII SOME. Not all or generally. Please
> > >do not mistake my post.
>
> What is the relevance of WWII to Korea/Koreans?  If you don't know,
> just it quiet.  You are not required to attend soc.culture.korean.
>
> WWII has nothing to do with Korea/Koreans, unless you want to talk
> about Japan's occupation and exploitation of Korea/Koreans, on how
> Japan used Korean resources and Koreans for their war effort, only
> to abandon them after 1945.
>
Umm...you were fine up to that point. It's kinda silly to say that Japan
"abandoned"
Korea after 1945 as if they wanted to. They only did because the United
States had
brought the Japanese Empire to their knees. If the US hadn't and Japan
wasn't losing the
war, I see no reason why they would "abandon" Korea.

> Regarding blaming post-1945 Japanese, see how things work out
> wonderfully for Japan?  Pre-1945 Japanese bury their head in sand,
> refusing to account for the past wrongs, hiding behind constintution
> and government created by Americans.

There is no doubt that Americans quickly disposed of the war crimes
problems, deliberately did
not accuse the Emperor of Japan as a War Criminal, buried all the
information on the bioweapons
research and in general acted in her own interets placing a priority on the
developing standoff with
the USSR. On the other hand, the US stripped Japan of her military (at least
in 1945), re-wrote and
imposed a new constitution and occupied her for several years. I don't see
where you get the idea that
anyone is hiding behind the US-written constitution or the democratic form
of government that the US put
in place.

>  There come post-1945 Japanese
> with, don't blame me for sins of our fathers, honoring their flag,
> the same flag their fathers used to invade and pillage Korea and
> other countries in Asia.
>
Are you talking about the national flag? If so that Flag is the same flag
they flew as an Ally of the US
in the boxer rebellion of 1900, as an Ally of tghe US against Germany in
WWI. It is the same flag they fly
today in joint airforce excercises with the US in Alaska. It's not the same
as the Nazi swastika flag that was
in use only during the Third Reich, not before and not after. I hardly think
the flag per se is much of an issue.

> There, then, victims are kept outside sucking on fingers. And Japanese
> prime-miniters keep visiting Yasukuni (sp) shrine honoring their war
> criminals, bowing to flag they have used to start wars throughout Asia
> and attack Pearl Harbor.

The Yasukuni shrine honors ALL war dead. This includes soldiers who died in
the sino-japanese war,. the
russo-japanese war, boxer rebellion. WWI as well as from WWII. It honors all
the soldiersa, some of whom
happen to be Korean and Taiwanese, whether they like it or not.
It is a HUGE MYTH that is perpetrated by anti-japanese fanatics that the
Ysukuni shrine honors specficially and
only the War Criminals.
As regards your comment about Pearl Harbor, as an American I can get over
it.
I suggest you do likewise.

USA