From: ntetsuya@lamar.ColoState.EDU (Nishimura)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Re: An open letter to the Emperor Akihito of Japa
Date: 16 Aug 92 16:25:35 GMT
Organization: Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO  80523

In article <1992Aug16.140030.10294@news.nd.edu> ylu@bach.helios.nd.edu writes:

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> 
>If a large number of japs think in this way it is dangerous! For our chinese,
		      ^^^^	
>the question of how the japs was "tricked" to the war is another subject.
			 ^^^^
>We can not mix these issues. The fact is millions of chinese civilian people
>were killed, Buried in LIVE and killed in LIVE for medical testing by JAPs
								       ^^^^	
>on chinese land. Who can say this is not japs responsibility! no matter what
					  ^^^^
>is the reason for their invading! 
> 
>One the other hand some netters have pointed out how the japs was "tricked"
							  ^^^^
>to invade china, I do'nt want to use more valuable CPU time here.
> 
>>>  For a long time the offical explanation of Pearl Harbor was that
>>
>
>A lot of people like to confuse us. If we like to discuss the issue of Pearl
>Harbor-Atomic bomb, let's go to soci.culture.american group. Here we talk
>about what japs did in china! Do they need to apology to chinese people,
	    ^^^^
>not to american.

	OK, this is enough.  At this point, you seem to have lost your temper 
	and forgotten respectful way of addressing ANY people.  Probably this
	is why you did NOT sign your article, isn't it?

	I apologize if I have been too picky, but I personally think that we
	should use appropriate and respectful words and expressions as long as
	we are posting to public media where there are people who are either for	or against your opinion.  Just flaming and disrespecting somebody do not
	lead us to anywhere.  What you only get is hard and harsh feeling toward
	you which lead the argument to mere flaming to each other, not to any
	constructive argument.

	Can you stay calm and feel nothing when your people are called with one
	of those BAD languages?

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	Average Japanese, as long as I know, know almost nothing about what 
	Imperial Army did on the continent and in South Eastern Asia because of
	our education system.  What we were told when I was in junior and senior 	high schools were mainly "when WW II began in Europe, when the Pacific 
	War began, where Japan first attack at that time, when A-bombs were 
	dropped on where, and, when WW II ended."  We did NOT have any 
	discussion on WW II, nor did teacher mention anything, even personal
	feeling, about it.  Why can these people say something when asked "Don't	you feel responsible for WW II?"  Do you REALLY know what your own 
	country did in the past beside what you have been taught in classroom?
	ANY government in ANY country, I think, can hide the facts from its 
	people.  Even if it is very limited and sometimes false information, 
	one's belief depends largely on what you are told first.


	I am not justifying our ignorance.  I KNOW those people in government
	experienced the war and they should know what Imperial Army did.

	I myself know only a part of it.  I taught English in a high school and
	in a cram school (juku) for a couple of years and occasionally I told
	my students what I learned about WW II including the subjects such as
	Rape of Nangkin and forcing the Japanese language in Korea.  This is 
	what I personally can do and have been doing.  But I could not and would	not apologize for what I did not except regarding my sorrow and feeling
	toward the war.  I think this may apply to many Japanese.

	
						Tetsuya Nishimura
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan