Confusion

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Sixty years later, the Japanese still have trouble coming to terms with the things their country did in World War II, and that really pisses off China, Korea, and other countries that suffered under their occupation.Read about what happened at the Yasukuni war shrine this week, where WW II verteran were venerated, including half a dozen convicted war criminals. One guy in attendance said, "They're only war criminals because Japan lost the war."Koizumi apologizes for war wounds (cnn.com)

um...well the emporer of Japan was controlled by his military, his military had agreed for that deal with Germany. everyone just needs to GROW THE * UP and DROP THE SUBJECT. its a NEW GENERATION NOT LIABLE FOR THE PAST ERRORS.

A lot of Japanese gather every year at the Yasukuni war shrine to commemorate their fallen soldiers and war criminals. A lot of people who don't attend are sympathetic. Their school textbooks have been (and presumably still are) sanitized of the Japanese role in World War II. Some elements of the population still have not come to terms with what happened. It's very different from post-war Germany.

Um... somtimes it's hard to get over something like world war 2. Especially for Japan having the first atomic bombs dropped on their two important cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It was pretty devestating to lose so many innocent people :/

We had a taste of that in the bombing of Pearl Harbor, and on 9/11.

But it wasn't the atomic bomb and the city wasn't wiped out right?

But it wasn't the atomic bomb and the city wasn't wiped out right?Where do you draw the line for trauma? 1000 deaths? 3000 deaths? 50,000 deaths?

look, the japanese dont hold a massive grude. we dont hold a grude and we lost tons of people too, in fact we trade with germany and japan the MOST out of all other countries (well them and China)

Basically, I agree. But the Japanese are coming out with yet more textbooks that whitewash their involvement in WW II. Not acceptable.

I haven't been much in Japan lately, but it is evident. Just go out on the street in, uh, Kanagawa or Aishi and ask any teenager, "what you think of Americans?" oh, don't bother asking the Japanese who immigrated to the US 50 years ago, they may be ethnically Japanese but they, well, are Americans.Unlike Americans, Japanese once angered, they don't drop their grudge very easily. A week ago, Koizumi apologized the Asian countries for Japan's invasion during the WW2. The Chinese, Koreans and the Brits might accept it, but for the normal Japanese it was intolerable. I assume that Koizumi won't be voted for a second period.Sadly, Japanese associate black with bad, thus the Japanese aren't really fond of Afro-americans, though they're not racist, they're just not fond.Pearl Harbour was a tragedy, Hiroshima and Nagasaki was pure slaughter of civilians. The US dropped the bombs AFTER the Japanese had declared defeat but the US wanted to show Russia their new toy so they dropped the bombs. If you want to blame the Japanese for Pearl Harbour, blame the army, but killing innocent people? Hiroshima and Nagasaki wasn't a military base whatsoever, so of all cities, why a civilian one?Oh, I might have relayed my message wrong. The Japanese aren't racist nowadays, only pre-judice. They find themselves hard to trust foreigners due to history that we have forgotten. They don't really abide to the buddhist rule of "forgive and forget".-Taison! outps. . When you buy porn in Asia, on the back it says "Made in Japan" and most of the actors are japanese cuz they have this high pitch voice and keep saying "I-te"[It hurts]

hah, you dont know japanese. ITAI is a sound of pain, not ite. you may as well be from romania and be saying this

Er you can't really say all Japanese people are like that can you? I have alot of friends who live in Japan and don't feel that way. Not even in the parents. I also have family who had moved to live in Japan and had gotten nothing but good treatment. My aunt said that it was hard for her and some of her friends to find a Japanese guy that didn't just like her because she was black. But I guess that's just not all what people are like. But thanks for the info anyway. I think Japan has the worst porn. I just think it's weird to find enjoyment out of watching a girl exploit herself in such a way shrugs but that's just me. I go to an all girl school tears and it's practically 80% Japanese 20% American. Don't ask. And we have to wear those exact uniforms... I feel like a clone. Most of my friends there have that giggly school girl personality and I think it's starting to rub off on me . I'm beginning to receive weird looks from my brothers and some of my friends lol.

In reply to: Hiroshima and Nagasaki was pure slaughter of civilians. The US dropped the bombs AFTER the Japanese had declared defeat This is not entirely true. Some elements of the Japanese government had made approaches to Russia on August 10th with the aim of surrendering to America. However, they did not contact the Americans directly about this and even though the Americans almost certainly knew about these overtones (they were regularly intercepting communications), there was still strong opposition from certain Japanese factions and the Americans had good reason for believing that the hardliners would win the battle and that Japan wouldn't be surrendering in the near future.The Americans dropped the bombs ostensibly to persuade those non-surrenderist hardliners that surrender was their only option.Japan officially surrendered a few days later on August 15th, after the bombs were dropped.Yes, Hiroshima and Nagasaki were terrible...but that's war for you. It's arguable as to whether or not the actions were justified then but we should really all just be hoping that it will never be considered necessary again.