Sad times are returning to Japan!

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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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The Cherry Tree

One Contribution Too Many

If the Japanese culture in its slavish and turbulent history has made one positive contribution to the world, it must be the cherry trees.

As if that’s one contribution too many, some of the nasty locals are pulling the tress out of the ground. According to the reports, twenty-eight cherry trees about to go into full bloom in a Fukuoka park were either completely uprooted or severely damaged. Report

Pink Cherry Tree Blossoms

Foreign Conquerors

Top 10 Reasons Why Japanese Loathe Gaijin (foreigners) …

10. Little Boy
9. Fat Man
8. Missionaries
7. Unfair Trade (!)
6. Cruelty to Women

There are a few proud moments in the history of Japan when women fought bravely against their foreign conquerors who lived privileged lives that were made comfortable with the service of about 100 native slaves per family.

“[The native women] were not allowed to refuse the demands of their T’ang Chinese and Korean masters, and had no choice but to give birth to children of mixed racial origin. They brought up their children, but were never legitimized by their masters. Perhaps this is the reason we call ourselves shomin (the illegitimate people), even under today’s democratic system.” Notes Toshihiko Abe, in Japan’s Hidden Face.

The T’ang Chinese invaded Japan in the 7^th century (664 CE). They created the Japanese social order, which formed the origin of today’s vertical society in Japan [see note]. The Chinese separated the society into two classes: ryo, T’ang Chinese or Kudara court nobles (aka, Tou, or Fuji-wara), and sen, the humble slaves, comprising all other races—Kogoryoe, Silla, Ya, Gen (aka,Yottsu), Zoshiki, joined later by Khitan (aka, Kitsu), Heike (aka, Pei), Sanka (a mix of Ya and Yottsu).

[“The origin of racial discrimination in Japan also began in the 7th century. It was generally recognized by the Japanese intelligentsia and the ruling class till the Meiji reform that only nobles of either T’ang Chinese or Peakche (Korean) blood had the legitimate right to rule Japan.” Notes Abe.]

In the 8th century, aboriginal rebel armies that emerged in northeastern Japan revolted against the T’ang Chinese and threatened their power base in Yamato. The armies “consisted of many clans, each commanded by a bold female leader or okami (woman general). Female leaders trained male corps, but dissatisfied with men’s fighting spirit, organized special corps of women only.”

Masako Hojo (1157-1225), one of the most remarkable women in Japanese (and world) history, married the head of Yottsu people, Yoritomo Minamoto, who established the Kamakura Bakufu (the military government was called Bakufu meaning tent government because the soldiers lived in tents). Masako gathered an army of 190,000 fighters and defeated the imperial forces after the imperial court had declared war against the Bakufu in 1221. She ousted the imperial families and confiscated their lands. Masako’s victory was regarded as a Ya woman’s revenge on the Chinese conquerors, the Fujiwara (Japanese name for the T’ang Chinese conquerors).

“During the civil war age women showed courage and resourcefulness by fighting as bravely as men. To appear more formidable, they shaved off their eyebrows, painted horrible, frightening ones with ink, and died their teeth black to scare enemies when they opened their mouths. Female daimyos and samurai proliferated until after the age of the Tokugawas, when female succession was prohibited.”

After Buddhism became Japan’s national religion, women were prohibited from becoming daimyos (feudal lords). “Buddhism was introduced from China via Korea, both countries being ‘men first’ races.”

“The fate of women in the countryside was cruel. Priests had the right to rob a woman of her virginity before sending her into prostitution, where she would be forced to serve numerous men until death. In the family of the daimyo or samurai, all female servants were vassals of the lord; if the lord wanted a female servant’s chastity she could not refuse.” Writes Abe.

As the tide of ultra nationalism and militarism grew stronger in the prewar Japan, “women’s standings slipped further, until women came to be seen only as instruments to breed men for the military, or as the objects of man’s sexual desire.”

In the late 19^th century, cotton and yarn spinning factories employed many female workers who worked long hours in adverse labor conditions for very low pay. Many died as a result and many more were stricken with disease and fatigue.

The lives of farming families were equally miserable. Brokers sold young daughters of indebted tenant farmers to houses of prostitution to settle their debts.

The women’s suffrage movement in Japan emerged during pre-war days, centering on the Women’s Suffrage League. Ironically, the Japanese women’s right to vote and be elected was conferred on them after the war ended in 1945.

[Note: “Vertical Society. In Japan, a vertical chain of submission begins with the emperor and then moves downward to the president and members of the Liberal Democratic Party; the prime minister & cabinet; president, directors, executive offices, and managers of companies; and finally the workers.” ~ Toshihiko Abe, Japan’s Hidden Face.]

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

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.