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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When Will Some Americans Finally Stop Killing the Japanese?

US man found guilty of murder in Japanese woman’s death in Hawaii

HONOLULU (AP) — A former pest control worker in Hawaii has been convicted of second-degree murder in the death of a 21-year-old whose body has never been found.

Defendant Kirk Matthew Lankford had claimed that , who was visiting Hawaii from Japan, died when she struck her head on a rock as she leaped from his moving work truck last year.

Lankford testified earlier this month that he disposed of the body in the ocean without telling anyone because he was afraid he would lose his job.

He said his truck struck Watanabe accidentally on April 12, 2007, as she stood by the side of a road, and he persuaded her to climb in to take her where she was staying.

Lankford said Watanabe was not seriously injured when he hit her but her arm cracked the windshield of the truck belonging to his employer. He said Watanabe was speaking Japanese and they began yelling at each other and she leaped from the truck.

Lankford said he got rid of the body that night in the ocean.

“I kept thinking, I’m going to lose my job. The only way I’m not going to lose my job is if nobody finds out what happened,” he testified.

Prosecutor Peter Carlisle said Lankford’s explanations were absurd.

A witness told police she saw Watanabe get into a truck belonging to Lankford’s employer. Another witness testified he interrupted Lankford using a shovel to dig a hole near Kahana Bay about midnight of the day Watanabe disappeared.

Police had also found traces of Watanabe’s blood and her glasses in the truck Lankford used.

Watanabe’s parents and brothers marked the first anniversary of her disappearance Saturday by attending a memorial service at Kawaiahao Church in Honolulu.

(Mainichi Japan) April 15, 2008
http://mdn.mainichi.jp/national/archive/news/2008/04/15/20080415p2a00m0na022000c.html

Why Isn’t Okinawa Jumping in Junity?

An Early Reflection

Judge Toshimasa Fukami finally ruled that “the former Imperial Japanese Army was deeply involved in the mass suicides.” [Thank you Sherlock-san!]

The author, Kenzaburo Oe, is now off the hook, of course, but what about

• The full truth?
• Logic behind the ruling?
• And why aren’t the Ryukyuans jumping in Junity*?

According to the judge:

The Imperial Japanese Army were deeply involved in the suicides Ryukyuans [Okinawans]; they supplied the grenades for Okinawans to commit mass suicide; instructed the civilians (i) how to use the grenades, and (ii) how to maximize mass fatality; but they did not order the Ryukyuans to commit suicide; however, people on those Okinawan islands where the Imperial Japanese Army was not stationed did not commit suicide.

He declined to rule on whether the Japanese commanders had actually ordered the civilians to commit suicide.

Weasel Ruling

What legal (or logical) yardstick could the judge have possibly used to arrive at such weasel ruling? If the Japanese commanders didn’t order the civilians to commit suicide,

1. What exactly did their “deep involvement in the mass suicides”amount to?
2. Who/what/why did the Okinawans commit suicide?

Burden of Proof?

The only logical, though untrue, conclusion that could be inferred from the Japanese judge’s weasel ruling is the following, which is based purely on those premises that he has agreed with:

Premise#1. The Imperial Japanese Army (IJA) supplied the hand grenades.
Premise#2. IJA instructed the [civilian] Ryukyuans how to commit mass suicide using hand grenade.
Premise#3. IJA commanders did not order the Ryukyuans to commit mass suicide.
Premise#4. Civilians on those Okinawan islands where IJA was not stationed did not commit mass suicide.

Conclusion: Therefore, the Ryukyuans must have been tricked by IJA commanders into committing mass suicide ‘voluntarily!’

And the Ryukyuans?

The weasel ruling made “f*ckall” difference to the Ryukyuans. The general idea is that they don’t get to sue the government for damages, claim compensation for the loss of family members, or for the other war crimes and atrocities committed by IJA!

See: A Word for the Ryukyuans [Okinawans]

*JUNITY = Japanese unity

With Friends Like These Who Needs Enemies?

Imperial Japanese Army Induced Locals to Commit Mass Suicide

About 110,000 people held a rally in Okinawa on Saturday to demand that the education ministry retract an instruction pressuring publishers of history textbooks to remove references to the military’s involvement in forcing civilians to commit mass suicide during the 1945 Battle of Okinawa.

Here’s an egregious example of the 10-Rule-90 principle in action (see previous posts). [This tragedy is comparable with the execution of more than 300 shell-shocked British soldiers by their own army in World War I because they couldn't continue fighting the "enemy."]

About 4-10 percent of the population in Japan (the masters) rule everyone else (the slaves). The right to life was given (and taken away); it wasn’t acquired! Perhaps, things aren’t as bad as they used to be, but who knows what’s in store for the majority once the “honeymoon” is over!