From: John Atkinson <johnmatkinson@y...>
Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2001 08:18:22 -0800 (PST)
Subject: [OT] Japan
> --- Thomas Barclay <kaladorn@fox.nstn.ca> wrote: > Oh, and John, in case you hadn't noticed: The specific question was "Japan 1943." Nothing of what you say applied then. > undoubtedly small vestiges of the attitude of Yeah. Just ask any one of those Koreans living in Japan, or an Ainu (IIRC, the most polite name they have for them translates as "Earth Spider"), or the descendants of the leatherworkers... > And besides, most kids nowadays in Japan are I'll just never trust anyone who can't admit what their anscestors did. The Germans don't run around claiming they were the aggrieved party in WWII, why do the Japanese claim their shit doesn't stink? And the Germans had less (marginally, but...) to answer for than the Japanese.