From: ra01+@andrew.cmu.edu (Rikiya Asano)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: SPEACKING OF EMPERORS......
Date: 14 Oct 92 19:27:06 GMT
Article-I.D.: andrew.8erCI_C00WBN890600
Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA

SPEAKING OF THE EMPEROR,


                              YESTERDAY, I WAS THINKING ABOUT RYUICHI
SAKAMOTO'S
PERFORMACE IN THE LAST EMPEROR. FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO MAY NOT BE
FAMILIAR. IT IS A FAIR DRAMATIZATION OF THE LIFE OF PU-YI HSIEN. THE
LAST MANCHU EMPEROR OF CHINA. I MUST ADMITTED THAT THE MOIVE DID INSPIRE
ME TO READ PU-YI'S AUTOBIOGRAPHY. AFTER, READS THIS THE MOVIE BECAME
INSIGNICATE. ALL WHO REALLY REMAINED WAS SAKAMOTO(HERO), JOHN LONE(THE
MOST HANDSOME HUMAN EVER),PETER O'TOOLE, AND THE OTHER SUPPORTING PEOPLE
AND OF COURSE THE BEAUTIFUL ENVIRONMENT. BUT, WHAT STICKS IN MY MIND THE
MOST IS WHAT SAKAMOTO SAID AT THE TABLE RIGHT BEFORE PU-YI HAD REFUSED
TO SIGN IN THE NEW FOREINGER(SORRY FALLAS)
MINISTER. AT THE TABLE, RIGHT AFTER PU-YI HAD AGAIN REFUSED TO SIGN,
SAKAMOTO SAUD THIS: "IF AN ENGLISHMAN ROBS HE IS A GENTLEMAN, IF HE ROBS
ALOT HE BECOMES 
A NIGHT". "DO YOU THINK THAT THE BRITISH RAN THEIR EMPIRE AS A CHARITY".
"IF INDIA HAD TO PAY FOR ITS OWN OCCUPATION, SO MUST
MANCHUKUO".[POUNDING HIS FIST DOWN DEFIANTLY]

                             THIS IS THE FEELING THAT THE IMPERIAL
JAPANESE       ARISTOCRACY IMITATED DURING IT'S FOOLISHNESS. AS A MATTER
OF FACT, EVER SINCE 
COM. PERRY SAILED TO NIHON WITH HIS "BIG GUNS IN TOW" NIPPON HAS DONE
IT'S BEST 
TO PLAY UP TO WESTERNS. IT IS A CLEAR FACT THAT THE JAPANESE WERE AFAID.
AND, THE WEST HAS ALWAYS TAKEN ADVANTAGE OF PEOPLE ARE WERE LESS
TECHNOLOGICAL THAN THEY WERE. FOR THIS REASON I FEEL ASHAMED THAT THE
JAPANESE AS BEATIFUL AS WE ARE WOULD DO WHAT WE'VE DONE IN THE PAST. IN
MY OPINION, IT IS TIME TO SAY
WE ARE GUILTY OF THE HARDSHIPS THAT OUR FOREFATHERS PUT UPONTHE HEAD OF
YOUR FOREFATHERS. IT TIME TO FOR THE JAPANESE TO PIVOT FROM THE WAY OF
THE WESTERNER
 ON THIS POINT.THIS INSULTATION TO OUR OWN! IT IS TIME TO TREAT THE
CHINESE IN OUR LAND AS OURSELVES AS WITH ALL THOSE THAT WILL ONE DAY BE
OUR FELLOW CITIZENS. LET LOOK AT AMERICA THIS GREAT LAND THAT GOD HAS
ENDOWED WITH HIS GRACE. IT IS GOING DOWN EVERYDAY. WHETHER MORALLY,
ECONOMICALLY AND PSYCHOLOGICALLY. WHILE IT IS OUR DUTY AS FELLOW HUMAN
BEINGS(I PERFER TO GIVE LESS ATTENTION TO THAT ALLIES STUFF)TO HELP IN
ALL POSSIBLE WAYS TO RESTORE TO 
THE PEOPLE(ALL OF ITS PEOPLE) OF THIS GREAT LAND AN HONESTED POTENTIAL
TO REGAIN WHAT THEY HAVE LOST BUT AT AN ESPENSE THAT WOULD ALLOW US TO
DEGRESS INTO THAT REALM OF SUPER SUPERIORITY AND MORE BETTER(PURE) THAN
OTHERS. I CANNOT AND WILL NOT ALLOW US TO DESTORY SOME OURSELVES AGAIN.
WE FELL INTO THE BIGGEST TRAP IN THE WORLD. I DON'T MEAN TO IMPLY THAT
THERE WAS A DELIVERATE CONSPISRACY TO SUCK 
NIPPON INTO AN ASIAN TRADING POST TO THE WEST BECAUSE I DON'T HAVE
PROOF. BUT IT IS RATHER STRANGE THAT WHILE NIHON IS GOING THOUGH THIS
DEATH, DESTRUCTION AND CONQUER ACT.{I HAVE DELETED MUCH OF WHAT I HAVE
TO SAY HERE BECAUSE IT INVOLVES
PEARL HARBOR AND FROM MY PAST EXPERIENCE WITH YOU(AND YOU KNOW WHO YOU
ARE) ALL.

                   SO, I GUESS I'LL HAVE TO END HERE. BUT, YOU KNOW I
DON'T WANT TO; SO I'LL TRY ANOTHER WAY OF SAYING IT.......WELL I HAVE
GO.  SOMETHING JUST CAME UP ,BUT I'LL FINISH THIS LATER.
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