From: underdog@leland.Stanford.EDU (Dwight Joe)
Subject: Apologizing for WWII--yet again
Organization: Miners for a Heart of Gold
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 93 23:59:52 GMT

In article <1993Jan24.4303.16653@dosgate> "micky wong" <micky.wong@canrem.com>
writes: ...
>if Japan as a nation has sincere remorse for her war atrocities, to prevent
>the crimes be repeated by Japan's later generations, it should be part of
>the history education.

(I nearly choked on my O-cha when I read this.)

I deleted most of this post, but the rest of it is typified by the above
quotation and the one to follow.

I fail to see how "Japan as a nation" should have "sincere remorse for her
war atrocities".  This is fairly typical of Chinese-cu thought.

In Western-cu (and to a certain extent in Japan-cu thought), the entity that
is guilty of a crime is _the_ _person_ who commits the crime.  The vast
majority of today's Japanese-ge people did not commit any war atrocity.
They aren't guilty of any such thing.

Only Chinese-cu people would think that the Japanese-ge are guilty of the
war crimes that certain other Japanese-ge committed and that they must have
"sincere remorse for her war atrocities."

>...
>I have travelled throughout Japan, had worked and befriended with many
>Japanese people, not a single one had asked or volunteered information of
>Japan's war crimes.
>...

See what I mean?  (I have no idea about Mr. Wong's ethnicity, and I don't
care to know what it is.)

A lot of Chinese-cu say precisely what Mr. Wong says.  What is awfully
hypocritical about those kinds of statements is that I _never_ hear Chinese-cu
folks demanding "sincere remorse" from Chinese-ge people for the brutal
atrocities that other Chinese-ge people committed in this century.  In fact,
they killed at least 100 million people in the period from 1900 to 1993,
and the century isn't over yet!  (Some of the victims include Tibetans-ge and
Taiwanese-ge.)

During the period from 1966 to 1976, the Chinese-ge killed 10 million people;
some of the Chinese-ge actually ate their flesh and wrote recipe books
on how to use human flesh as part of a "nutritious meal."  In sheer numbers,
the Chinese-ge have killed, by _at_ _least_ an order of magnitude, more
people than the Japanese-ge were even militarily capable of.

But, ya know....  Every year, some bozo like Mr. Edward Lor (lor@att.com)
will come out with a petition for people like Mr. Wong to sign.  This
petition demands that Japan feel remore for WW II and that she, yet again,
should apologzie for that era.  Just how much hypocrisy can you readers of
s.c.j. take without saying something?

I, for one, am saying something.

Not only should Japan ignore this petition, the Japanese-cu gov't should
formally expand it's textbooks to cover more of the history of Asia, including
a detailed description of the 100 million people killed by the Chinese-ge in
this century alone.  Further, the consitution should be revised so that
Japanese self-defense forces can offer it's help to South East Asian nations
and other nations in Asia.  For example, currently, Chinese-ge pirates
have been marauding commercial ships from S. E. Asia and the C.I.S.  China
has condoned this activity despite a formal protest from the Russian gov't.

Those Chinese-ge pirates will "shapen up" when they are confronted with the
full military arsenal of the finest nation in all of Asia.

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Legend-
  -ge = in the sense of ethnicity (i.e. genetics)
  -cu = in the sense of culture
  -ci = in the sense of citizenship

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