Paying the price for free speech in Japan!

Would You Do This to the Japanese Living in Your Country?

More Criminal Damage [Again]: Author’s bike tire was slashed.

Civilized people do NOT behave this way; savages do!

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What is 20 million + 3.1 million?

The numbers who lost their lives in the 15-year war of aggression by Japanese militarism: 20 million people from Asian countries; 3.1 million people from Japan.

In the event of another war an estimated 80 million Japanese people could die of starvation and disease.

Say “NO” to Ultra Nationalism! Stop the Revision of Japanese Constitution!

Japan is doing just fine without a military and does not have to participate in United Nations military adventures. The anti-war clause in Japan’s constitution was put there for good reasons.

Japanese wars of aggression from the Manchurian Incident to the Pacific War proved the complete inability of the Japanese government to control its military and the emotional ease with which the Japanese people could be led into all manner of hysterical militaristic excess once the military did gain control.

Nothing has happened since 1945 to change those reasons. The Japanese are still a highly emotional people…

A 46 cm shell displayed at the Yasukuni Shrine

Stop the Road to War!

The formulation of a new constitution is a coup d’état!

Of all the paths and options available, the road to war would be the costliest mistake, a deadly choice Japan can ill afford to make.

Yamato Exploding
[Source of photos: the Wikimedia Commons]

Compulsory Teaching of Patriotism at Japanese Schools

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Indoctrinating Children with Patriotism at Japanese Schools

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s ruling coalition voted for a new law requiring schools to teach children to be patriotic. The upper house will debate the new legislation this month (June 2007).

Protesting against the bill, opposition members of parliament warned that it could spread nationalism.

US President George W. Bush, President Roh Moo-Hyun of South Korea with US Pres. GW Bush and Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe photographed at the Sheraton Hanoi hotel Nov. 18, 2006. (This image is in public domain.)

The Japanese psyche seems possessed once again by the Meiji ideology, thinly disguised as “the attitude of loving our country.” Still haunted by the specter of its wars of aggression in the last century, Japan is once again heading towards nationalism imperturbably.

This shouldn’t come as a surprise, however, since Japan is living beyond its means, importing more than 60 percent of its food and 96 percent of its energy demands. As the world’s natural resources continue to shrink, the elite (the ruling minority, which comprise about 8-10% of Japanese population) is taking steps to protect its own interests through spread of nationalism that will eventually lead to militarization and war.

“Since the feudal times when the people went part and parcel with the land under the daimyos [feudal lords, heads of companies], it [has been] the nobles’ policy to keep people ignorant and dependant, in order to control them.” Writes Toshihiko Abe in Japan’s Hidden Face, aided by “a servile mentality [that] has been ingrained in the Japanese people throughout a thousand years of slavery, ever since domination by the T’ang Chinese in the 7^th century, a fact that has been hidden from the people.”

No wonder then Mr. Ando’s school like so many other schools in Japan breeds its quota of “patriotic” thugs to fight in the forthcoming wars that are being staged by the ruling elite.
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Heads Down, Butts Up!

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Meet my former neighbor, Mr. ‘F,’ a senior employee of Shinsei Bank. Why is he bending forward grabbing his ankles? That’s how he greeted foreigners outside his uchi (house).

Today everything looks upside down!

It gives a new meaning to Customer Focus at Shinsei bank (see Shinsei Vision and Values). “We provide unparalleled solutions with speed and ability based on our customer’s evolving needs.”

Way to go Shin!

Having learned his new boss was a foreigner, a Korean pig farmer, no less, he completely flipped, rumor has it, and went into his natural ‘Heads down, butts up!’ posture. Apparently, he was unable to straighten up for a long time afterwards, so his wife had to go to work instead!

Rumor has it (again) that he and his famous Korean boss finally reached an understanding plotting to stage a coup (with the help of Rupert Merdoch?) to do away with tradition and revolutionize the way ALL Japanese look at the world!
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Send your thugs to Okinawa for retaliatory action, Mr Ando!

Send your tiny tikes to Okinawa to do some good, Mr. Ando, they will have plenty to retaliate. Why not teach them to protect the chastity of the local damsels in distress, for starters, instead of condoning their antisocial behavior toward friendly foreigners (see previous post).

One recent survey by a school teacher on Okinawa found a third of his female high school students had been sexually molested by U.S. soldiers, a violation U.S. base officers have often dismissed as ‘flirting, because boys will be boys.’

Since the end of WWII, the livelihood and human rights of Okinawans have been violated by high-level noise pollution from military drills, aircraft accidents, environmental destruction, and crimes committed by U.S. military personnel.

One of the worst postwar crimes committed by US military in Okinawa was the 1955 rape and murder of six-year-old Yumiko. The accused, Isaac J. Hart, was not convicted. In 1995 three US servicemen abducted and gang-raped a 12-year-old girl; however, Japan could not try the accused servicemen at the time of the incident because the US-Japan Status of Forces Agreement gave US soldiers immunity from local laws!

Ishiganto stone (Yomitan, Okinawa) is believed to ward off evil spirits! Public domain photo by Wikipedia User:Fg2
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