From: kim@magneto.physics.auburn.edu (Han-jung Kim)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Re: On Japanese apologies
Date: 20 Aug 92 04:14:51 GMT
Reply-To: kim@magneto.physics.auburn.edu (Han-jung Kim)
Organization: Auburn University, Auburn, AL
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 In article <92232.183350TOGE@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU> TOGE@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU (Nobukazu Toge) writes:
>Smittie -
>
>If my understanding is correct, the diplomatic agreement that the Japanese
>sincerity per se [ok, it's a big contribution, too].  And I want to repeat
>that many Japanese (all right, I don't have statistics) feel this is bad,
>but are not quite sure how to nationally mature out of this.

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>
>* Nobu Toge (Using my account on my ex-employer Stanford Linear Accelerator
>* Center.  My former (SLAC) and present (Nat'l Lab for High Energy Physics)
>* employers are not responsible for this posting.  My opinion is only mine
>* unless shared by someone else.

I personally thank you for your detailed explanation on the subject of
Japan's apology to the neighour countries.
From those discussions via network I has learned lots of new facts and
new way of thinking and could see the situations happening at each side.
However still I can not take a suspicious feeling on the Japanes Politicians
out and am afraid that someday new invasion may break up by Japan again. 

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The difference between USA and Japan judging base on the personal experience.
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In USA, every night I see TV broascasting and at the midnight there are lots
of comercial program appealing to donate money for the poor who live in foreign
countries-in Africa, south america ...etc. 

In my elementary school I remember that every launch was provided with
the American Aids. Now after I understood the system of America- the society of
variaty- the individuals who has desire to do good thing  can get money
donated by normal persons and spend it for the poor whatever their citizenships
are. This is so good and I can admire this program. Anybody can not resist to
aplause it.  I know that 
USA is not alway good. She has made big mistakes in Past. But All creatures 
has its pro and cone. USA did not
alway do good will, of course. However several of American like to help
the poor and to do good will for those who need somebody's help.
I personally believe that this is possible because USA has been found
upon christianity and still USA is affected by christians.

Regardless of the mistakes made by USA, the reason why the bad feeling
is more upon Japan than USA is, I think, USA showed at least real help
when Korean had some trouble in 1960 and after for a while until Korea
coudl stand alone. As a superpower, USA has ever fed korean chidren and
taken care of korean war orphens.

HOWEVER Let's talk about Japan of today. Nobody can deny that Japan is
one of the richest nation on earth. But Dose she make any effort to
contribute her economic power for the poor with full warm heart?
If this is going on now and the foreigner living in Japan can feel 
this atmostphere and if they can say that one can trust Japan
as a good neighbour, this will be very desirable progress, and I am wrong.

Oneday I heard that Japan has never accepted so called 'boat people'
who begged their aproval of landing in Japan, but Japan has denied them and
retured them to china so that all of those peoples were arrested by chinese 
government.  I do not remember that USA has ever rejected all of those 'boat
people'. Many of them were accepted and live in USA today.
From this story I can imagine that Japan is a closed society and that I can
not expect anything from her allthough her body and strength is enormous
and huge to do anything she wants. The young boy with a closed mind may be
one of dangeouse species. ( the politcians can compared to HEAD, indevidual
blanch).



I think that this looks small but crucial difference between two super powers
of today. 


SUMMARY

If today's Japan is small and one of the poorest countries, nobody pays 
attention to whatever Japan does.
However the policy of Japan and the way of thinking and the foreign policy
affect the neighbour contries as she wants or not.

Therefore Japanese slightest foreign policy is so sensitive to the
neighbours and the conflict begins.

1) Japan is strong enough to do what she want.
2) Japan seems not to show the open minded attitued to the world as one of
superpowers and no other Asian countries seems to overcome Japanese 
economic power in the neares future. 
3) The indevidual Japanese can be trustable and belived havving a reasonalbe
manner but  JAPANESE POLITICIANS ????  
4) If you can , would you tell me that what the JAPANESE POLITICIANS WANT
JAPAN TO DO AND WHERE THEY WANT TO LEAD JAPAN IN THE FUTURE as a first
or second economic super power.
  Just want to be the richest country or want to be a good samaritan
as written in BIBLE.

Thank you again for your sincere opinion and patient manner.
 
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