pawelk1986 wrote:
The journalist who wrote that article, he wondered whether Japan would comply with this ICJ ban on whaling, during the next whaling season.
They've called off the 2014-15 hunt, but apparently are looking at ways around the ban as well.
What is strange is that apparently consumption of whale meat has drastically diminished on a per capita basis.
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He also wrote I want to portray Japan as a peaceful nation and the homeland of progress, but this is just a theatrical mask, because the Japanese are still the stubborn and virulent nation which were in the 30's.
Good grief. Painting with a broad brush much? "Stubborn and virulent?" What do you think the Japanese are, a form of bacteria?
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A nation which can not be reconciled with the class with defeat, and always stand their ground, the reporter wrote that in this respect
Last I checked, World War II ended, oh, going on 70 years ago. I'll grant that the Japanese do seem to have a selective memory about things like the
Rape of Nanking or
Unit 731, but how much longer should what went on then be held against them? I don't see much breast beating in the US about Hiroshima or Nagasaki (both of which even General MacArthur considered unnecessary), nor in the UK about Dresden and Hamburg.
Or do you have evidence that the ghost of
Yukio Mishima is somehow stirring? And even if it is, that his movement of nutcases would have any more support now than it did in 1970? (Hint: It had none then, either.)
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