Japan - A victim of WWII or Aggressor?

  • 2011.01.23 Sunday
  • 23:50
A letter to a conservative radio talk show host. 

Dear Dennis,

 

I wish you a happy new year.  We, Japanese, address each other with this phrase along with a deepest bow in the first meet in January.  I send you my bow as a sign of respect toward conservatism mentor.  I feel myself wiser than I am a year ago.  That is because of you.  The bow is for showing my appreciation.

 

I am writing this as a reaction to your podcast on December 27 “Oil Addiction”, specifically your comment “The notion that Japan was a victim of WWII is so preposterous that it doesn’t require any commentary”.

 

I recognize your version of history.  You American have your own history.  And, the history should serve your national interest by high-lighting good, honorable and heroic side of America’s past.  To describe, as such, your history of WWII where Japan and the US fought, you need to describe Japan as evil and the US as good.  I have no intention to complain about it.

 

I just would like to take liberty to wright to you our version of history.  I don’t either expect you to accept it, nor do I wish you to.  You stick with your version and I do to ours.  You are loyal to your great country and I am humbly to ours.  I just wish you to read it to the last and recognize it, if you would.

 

Japan-US War was a war by tyrannical FDR administration and free, independent, democratic and self-respecting Japan.

 

During 1894 – 1905, Japan fought two wars with China and Russia, both to defend Korea’s independence.  We wanted stable independent Korea free of foreign country’s influence in our neighborhood.  Being in a colonial era, we were terrified to see other Asian countries taken over and cut in pieces by European powers, and were determined to protect ourselves.  The problem was, our neighbor Korea was so weak, corrupt and so in need of our help to run their country that we made a deal with them to make their land our territory.  The colonization was processed in accordance with mutual agreement under the international law, not intrusion by force.  We didn’t wish to take Korea, but there was no choice, in order to protect our own country. 

 

In the WWI, Japan very reluctantly responded to the demand of Britain, France and Russia to wage attack against Germany.  Again in 1920, Japan very reluctantly responded to British and French request to send troops to Siberia to attack Communist militia, on the condition that we act together with US. 

 

Up until around then, we discovered true nature of communism that was taking over Russia and later China and Korea.  We, facing numerous occasion of massacre inflicted upon our citizens (who were legitimately living in today’s China and Korea) during that time, came to learn intolerance, inhumanness and savagery of communism. 

 

Japan, a country of small land and scarce natural resources, needed trade partner to purchase raw material of various industries.  In 1933 with Japan’s help, the state of Manchuria was established in northern China.  The country was founded on principle of independence and free of communism.  Economy boomed.

 

During late 1920’s and 1930’s, Chiang Kai Shek’s Nationalist Party and Mao’s Communist Party fought each other and sometimes against us.  They were opposing each other, but both were products of Soviet Internationalism.  Remember what Chiang Kai Shek’s forces did to Taiwanese people after they took over that island.  228 Massacre was the true manifestation of inhumanness and cruelty of fascism.  Also remember the Taiwanese people back then before 1952 (San Francisco Treaty where Japan abandoned Taiwan officially) was Japanese national under the international law.  Therefore, they were responsible for killing a lot of Japanese.

 

Japan, who was helping Manchuria’s nation building, was drawn inevitably to battle with communism (both Mao’s Communist Party and Chiang Kai Shek’s Nationalist Party to which Mao’s forces were infiltrating in large number).

 

In 1930’s and 1940’s up to the war, FDR, a great believer of progressivism and an admirer of Nazi, Fascist and Bolshevik movement, opposed to our move.  FDR, with strong recommendation of Harry D. White, sent weapons to Chiang.  He collaborated with Britten, Netherland and France to cut off our crucial supply line in South East Asia.  Harry D. White, by the way, was a convicted communist who had been acting under the direct order from Moscow.  He wanted to subvert Japan’s effort with US power.

 

We, having no desire other than to survive in that hostile situation, tried a time and time again to negotiate peace deal with FDR.  FDR ignored them all.  Finally, Cordell Hull, then secretary of state, sent us ultimatum written by Harry White, urging us 1) to the full and unconditional withdrawal from China, 2) to abandon pro Japan government in Nanjing, 3) to support Chiang Kai Shek.  Judge Radhabinod Pal (The International Military Tribunal for the Far East) famously said that “faced with such a humiliation, even countries like Luxembourg and Monaco would have risen up in rage.  This was their final declaration of war”.

 

We, having no other choice, initiated attack on the US – Pearl Harbor, and the rest of the Allied Forces.  Do we call it sneak attack?  We do not.  They didn’t know?  Yes, they did.  They wanted it so bad.

 

We fought and fought and fought to protect our land and lost.

 

After the war, United States naturally faced Communism themselves.  Korea was the beginning.  General MacArthur, for the first time, putting himself into our shoes, recognized what we were up against.  He later testified in congress that Japan fought the war for the sole purpose of self-defense.  He was right.  Afterward, US kept facing rise of communism – Vietnam.  Big casualty.  Big Loss.  Huge societal degradation.  Ascendancy of the Left….. Until Great Ronal Reagan became president.

 

And we…. We lost our history.  Our country of today is dominated by leftist views.  We are viewing ourselves (war time) as the same as Nazis.  We are taught in school to hate our history.  Correct history (above) is never disseminated in school and media.  We are minority.  But, we are determined to preserve our history, just as you are determined to protect yours.

 

Again, as I said, I don’t expect you to accept this version of history.  We, conservatives, know there is no such thing as “one history for all nations”.  We can live with that.

 

Thank you for reading.

 

P.Ss 1  MacArthur Testimony in 1951 May - Inquiry Into the Military Situation in the Far East and the Facts Surrounding the Relief of General of the Army Douglas MacArthur from his Assignments in that Area.

http://www.sankei.co.jp/seiron/koukoku/2003/maca/10/MacArthur1.html

 

P.S. 2

Recently I shared Prager University Middle East conflict lecture with my Israeli friends.  They liked it, with a little amusement, I guess, having received it from Japanese.  I have been to Israel three times and I know that country.  It is a moral responsibility for all of us enjoying freedom to support Israel.

 

Shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords by a nut

  • 2011.01.16 Sunday
  • 00:30

This tragedy on January 8, 2011 ended up revealing viciousness and ugliness of liberal mind.  Liberals catch any moment to attack people they disagree, especially those on the right.  It is not about justice.  It is about hate.  Their hate against conservatives – Sarah Palin being notable one of them - is so deep, that they use even the non-political tragedy caused by this sorry nut, Jared Loughner to promote their smearing campaign.

 

Without knowing this incident, I opened my PC and yahoo US page to look up something.  I no longer remember what I wanted to check.  That news on shooting was on the top yahoo news.  I checked which party Rep. Gifforts belong to.  I found she was Democrat – a Democrat politician shot by an assassin.  Instantly it came to my mind – what would be the people’s reaction?  My prediction was that somehow left-leaning main stream media would try to cast blame on the right.  I was right.

 

Jared Loughner is a kid with confused mind.  He got so confused that he came to believe that he has right to take somebody’s life while uploading his monologue that makes no sense at all.  This man has nothing to do with conservatism or liberalism.  This man has nothing to do with idea and thinking.  This man has everything to do with childishness and barbarism.

 

Loughner posted silly remarks on YouTube that are related to government officials, currency and English grammar.  It is a 4 year old kid’s word-play using 22 year olds’ vocabulary.  It is an absolute waste of time to analyze his words.  Liberals call his ramblings “anti-government rhetoric” and suspect that his thinking “could have been influenced by Tea Party Movement and conservatives”. 

 

Sarah Palin is one of the prominent leaders of conservatives today.  On her website, she was calling on people to hold those congressmen who voted for ObamaCare – Gifforts is one of them – accountable and fight to replace them with conservatives.  On the website, there is a district map showing what some say is crosshair gun sight on the area of representatives who voted for the health care bill. 

 

Whether the marking was meant to be crosshair gun sight or not, linking this to a real shooting is just as silly as Loughner’s rambling on internet.  Just as it is unnecessary to try to understand the bastard, there should be no need of explaining why it is irrelevant.  It is just stupid. 

 

While conservatives attack their opponents’ position and call on people to replace them with democratic voting process, liberals attack conservative’s personality, often calling them “scary Hitlerian”.  A know-nothing liberal TV commentator (Joy Baher) once called Donald Rumsfeld “Hitler type”.  Everybody agrees Hitler was a monster.  Relating somebody anyway to Hitler on national TV is much worse than sending a death-threat.  Thousands of audiences would have been exposed to that view and perhaps some percentage of them might have been convinced that Rumsfeld should be executed by any means.  Any repercussion to that comment?  I haven’t heard of any.

 

Conservatism is about individual freedom, civil society, strong defense, growing prosperity with free market and limited government.  In the liberals’ planet, conservative idea is a breeding ground for Loughner and his ilk.  Liberals take advantage of conservative’s civility.  Liberal mind is vicious.  Liberalism corrupts people and people’s mind.  God, save us from it.

イスラエル・生存100年分のガス田発見

  • 2011.01.09 Sunday
  • 11:40
 

12月末に発見が発表された地中海沖のガス田はイスラエルのエネルギー供給を今後100年間まかなえる規模だそうだ。 今までアラブ諸国の禁輸にさらされてきたイスラエルがエネルギー輸出国にもなりえるという一大事である。 

 

1947年、神はイスラエルを再びユダヤの民の手に委ねた。 そしてそれ以来、ユダヤの民が幾多の困難を乗り越えて確固とした国を作り上げた今、神は彼らに天然ガスを与えられた、と表現しても何ら問題なかろう。

 

ガス田が発見されたのがネタニヤフ氏の右派リクードが政権を握る今であるというのは幸運であろう。 

 

アメリカ、日本、ヨーロッパはエネルギーを自給する能力があるにも関わらず、リベラル左翼は環境主義の名のもとに開発を阻止している。 そのため我々はアラブ諸国から石油を買い、専制体制保持とイスラム狂信主義布教の資金を支払っている。 

 

イスラエルがアメリカを始めとする悪い見本に染まることなく、ガス田を最大限活用して繁栄への道を突き進むことを願ってやまない。

台湾東部・古き日本を探す旅

  • 2011.01.09 Sunday
  • 11:38

2011年の新年を台湾東部の花蓮で迎えることになった。 今回は上海から台北に入り、イーランを経て花蓮、そして台東県の知本、最後に台北経由で上海へ戻るという旅程。 温泉街めぐりの旅である。

 

台湾を訪問するたびに感じることだが、台湾には日本の現在と過去が生きている。 今の日本の大衆文化はそのまま台湾に持ち込まれている。 テレビをつければ日本のテレビが字幕付で放映されている。 コマーシャルも日本語でそのまま流れている。 書店へ入れば女性ファッション雑誌コーナーは8割がた日本からそのまま持ち込まれた状態で売られている。 もちろん全て日本語のままである。 芸能文化に関して言えば国境は無いも同然。 台湾の温泉は男女混浴で水着を着て入る形式も多いが、台湾東部には純日本式がある。 日本時代に作られて以来台湾の人々によって受け継がれている。

 

しかし更に足を踏み入れると日本自身が既に失った過去の日本が生きていることに気付く。 1947年に日本が大東亜戦争に敗北して台湾を放棄する以前は、台湾は日本の一部だった。 1年前に台湾を訪問したとき、白色テロの記憶を祭った228記念公園で案内人はこう語った。 『我々台湾人が誇りにする台湾の歴史は日本時代だ。 日本時代の台湾は立派だった。 日本時代の建造物は今でも残っている。 その後蒋介石の仲間が建てた建物は皆潰れた。 理由は簡単だ。 日本人はまじめだったが中国から来た連中は腐敗していたからだ』 

 

台湾人の物腰は日本人に近い。 現在の台湾人は元々日本時代から台湾に住んでいる人々と、戦後中国から渡ってきた人々がいる。 中国から持ち込まれたのは非文明と腐敗だった。 日本時代の台湾にとってはそのような中国の文化は異質なものだったはずだ。 しかし現在の台湾には中国とは全く違う、どちらかというと日本の雰囲気に近い社会が存在している。 恐らく、台湾には日本社会が基本素地として根を下ろしていたために、いかに中国的腐敗が持ち込まれようとも、それに染まることなく台湾独自の社会を形成することができたのだろう。

 

今回の旅で訪れた町・知本である小さな食堂に入った。 店の主人は50代半ばといった風情で日本語が喋れた。 日本語は日本時代に育ったご両親から学んだそうだ。 昭和天皇が好物だったという「飛行機野菜」炒めと山で獲れたイノシシの肉を勧められ、食べたらなかなかの味だった。 日本人は礼儀正しくて良い、逆に大陸の旅行者は礼儀を知らない、ということをしきりに語っていた。 主人の言葉から古き良き日本への憧憬が感じられた。 

 

彼ら古い世代の台湾人の心に生きているのは台湾が経験した日本時代である。 台湾を統治した当時の日本は「強く、自立心に富み、誇りある」日本である。 この日本は左翼的戦後政策によって作られた「弱く、自主独立の気概無く、自尊心無き」日本ではないことは間違いない。 

 

日本人は、失った過去を台湾で見つけることが出来る。 台湾は移り行く時代の中で自身のアイデンティティを築いてきた。 古き良き日本の影もいずれ薄れていくだろう。 しかし20111月の台湾には確かにそれはあった。

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