Sad Japan
Frightening the kids off!
The strategy and focus of action seems to have been shifted from that of directly threatening the author [it didn't work] to intimidating him by frightening his kids off. Yesterday, the kids were nearly run over in a parking lot near their school.
Gacuette called the driver a “f*cking evil bastard.” But he just stood there, looking. The psychopath rather enjoyed the feeling of being superior through naked aggression. The scumbag seemed aroused by the notion of being able to harm other people at will—albeit a 3½ and a 6-year-old kids.
Perhaps Gacuette should change his response the next time!
Have you ever wondered what goes through the minds of psychopaths at that moment when they are about to harm other people? Looked through the war photos for some answers and found this one:
One of the saddest pictures of WWII. Aitape, New Guinea. 24 October 1943. A photograph found on the body of a dead Japanese soldier showing NX143314 Sergeant (Sgt) Leonard G. Siffleet of “M” Special Unit, wearing a blindfold and with his arms tied, about to be beheaded with a sword by Yasuno Chikao. The execution was ordered by Vice Admiral Kamada, the commander of the Japanese Naval Forces at Aitape. Sgt Siffleet was captured with Private (Pte) Pattiwahl and Pte Reharin, Ambonese members of the Netherlands East Indies Forces, whilst engaged in reconnaissance behind the Japanese lines. Yasuno Chikao died before the end of the war.
Have never cared much for the Australians because of what they have done to the Aborigines. But that feeling doesn’t come into the picture. What the author sees in the photo is the image of an extreme psychopath about to behead a man because another extreme psychopath who felt superior to both of them ordered the execution!
Yasuno Chikao didn’t make it, and Kamada was apparently executed for his war crimes. But the author saw both of them united as one reappearing as the psychopathic driver who nearly ran over his kids.
Don’t know how much reparations Japan paid to the family of Leonard G. Siffleet and the millions of other victims who were murdered, raped or injured by the Japanese Imperial Army, but I know it wasn’t enough because it didn’t make the filthy ghosts go away. Japan hasn’t learned a lesson, or else Chikao and Kamada wouldn’t have reappeared in the parking lot on Friday.
So, here’s the deal: Let’s make Japan Pay! Let’s demand that Japan pays a million dollars, or more, for each and every victim of the Japanese Imperial Army Aggression to the victims families, friends or governments, as appropriate. Let’s make Japan “cough up” so much money that it would make Chikao and Kamada to disappear forever. Let’s not allow them to come back ever again!
seirei said
Killers are made by benighted mothers who urge them to compete even at the cost of losing their humanity. One mother, “Going to Sunday school will make my boy too kind” Another mother, “Quality food will be wasted on you who’s destined to become a soldier”.
Guy said
Seirie – You are absolutely correct. Some Japanese mothers have a lot to answer for.
That said, “ignorance” is responsible for a lot of evil that takes place in the world.
mr x said
[Comment unsuitable for publishing. mr x, Genghis Khan died a long time ago.]
gomendesai said
I beg to disagree. Hara-kiri was a tradition among the bravest of all soldiers earth has ever seen. The ideal of self-immolation – death before dishonor – come from the Zen Buddhist influence among the warrior class of Japan. It had high ideals of honor until death, frugality, loyalty, etc etc….. these are what some of the WWII soldiers had followed. They were the modern warriors of Japan with an older set of ideals/values/beliefs.
By cutting of his head he was giving him the honor he deserved as a defeated enemy. There was no more barbarism in that than killing your enemy with a “shotgun to the face”.
What about the Atomic bombings? They were war-crimes against all of humanity…. We cannot forget that.
Guy said
First let me clarify this point: Yasuno Chikao, the executioner in the above photograph, committed a cold-blooded murder when he beheaded the Australian soldier.
Human life is sacred, regardless of how “Zen Buddhism” may or may not have influenced “the warrior class of Japan.”
The “high ideals of honor until death, frugality, loyalty…” mean nothing if they didn’t follow “avoidance of war,” first and foremost.
What is so honorable about raping and killing other human beings, torching their homes, and then, when you can no longer fight, committing suicide, leaving your mother, wife, daughter, sister… at the mercy of your enemy to rape and murder… your home and possessions torched and ransacked…
You call this brand of ultra cowardice bravery? Honor? Ideals? Values? Beliefs? Superiority of “modern warriors of Japan with an older set of ideals” over all others? Zen Buddhism?
What about the fate of your family, your wife and children, after you go to battle, lose the war and commit seppuku? Don’t they have a right? Don’t they matter? Of course NOT! Zen Buddhism is a men’s thing; women and children have no place in it—they don’t have a soul!
The words cowardly, bad, ugly, selfish, among many other adjectives, come to mind when you speak about the “Zen Buddhist influence.”
Do you speak for the “slave-class,” which is imbued with these phony ideals and falsities, or the “master-class,” trying to “protect” your kind by keeping these predatory, antisocial “codes of conduct” alive?
Suicide is cowardly. “Hara-kiri” or “seppuku” is a “slave-class” tradition, designed to protect the master class. How else would you prevent “samurai” from refusing to fight each other, or stop them from changing masters?
“Hara-kiri” served the master class even in wartime Okinawa—committing suicide wasn’t an option. Not only soldiers, but ordinary people were ordered to kill themselves, when the Imperial Army felt they may give away sensitive information to the “enemy.” You may recall that 171 people on Zamami Island and 329 people on Tokashiki Island committed suicide towards the end of World War II. The grenades were supplied by the army. See below for reference links
- http://japanifik.wordpress.com/2008/03/29/japanese-army-deeply-involved/
- http://japanifik.wordpress.com/2008/03/30/jumping-in-junity/
- http://japanifik.wordpress.com/2008/03/02/a-word-for-ryukyuans/
You also said: “What about the Atomic bombings? They were war-crimes against all of humanity…. We cannot forget that.”
The atomic bombing, regardless of any excuses offered by the apologists after the war, were “crimes against all of humanity.”
However, I detect a note of inconsistency in your comment. You cannot sincerely condemn “the Atomic bombings” as “crimes against all of humanity,” without equally condemning “war,” “Hara-kiri,” “seppuku,” the “master-slave,” class distinction … and “Zen Buddhism,” if in fact the latter influenced everything else. See also:
- http://japanifik.wordpress.com/2008/11/07/apa-goblin-japans-asdf-and-the-crazy-general/
- http://japanifik.wordpress.com/2008/11/02/tamogamis-history-lies/
Graeme said
I think the link between this WW2 stuff and someone almost running over children in a parking lot is extremely tenuous!
Having said that, Gomendasai – You make a good point! Zen Buddhism does have a lot to answer for in regards to instilling the culture of violence called “bushido” among Japanese soldiers in WW2.
Guy said
I’m convinced you’re a Japanese government employee! It’s no surprise, if you can’t understand. You’re conditioend NOT to think!
jonno said
[Edited. Guy]
[Jonno, when you learn that words are meant to come out of your mouth, rather than other openings in your anatomy, come back for a chat.]
Ultraman said
“Homo sapiens have become a malignancy of cosmic proportions.”
John Mack MD
Chair of Psychiatry
Harvard School of Medicine
Pulitzer Prize winner
Guy said
He beat us to saying it, didn’t he!