Let's not equate the dinosaurs who hold the levers of power with the ordinary, day-to-day folk. ;-)
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>David
Yeah. One look at Letters From Iwo Jima was a total setoff for me, though. I remember I showed a published report copied from Yomiuri that bragged of a "How many Chinese heads our men in the forces can cut off" contest to my then-wife and she was quite properly appalled. Shut into absolute silence. It was after all, right in front of her. No denials à là Yasukuni!
Yes, it was the powers that were but it doesn't divorce it from the cultural vein of misadventure that characterises these people. If you really want to look at it that way, they're not much that removed from Al Qaeda. Ruthless, unfeeling, mentally unstable . . . need I go on? Of course, you're free to disagree--after all, you live there.
So, there is a special place in my heart for the Japanese--can't deny it. Thank God my dad was in Europe, or it would be a full-blown hatred.
But you're right. I've been to Hiroshima three times and it was always the little people who got trashed, wasn't it. Just really makes you want to get your hands on the big people. Hopefully they're all long in the grave. Like the people they put into it.
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