Japanese War Memorial Ceremony

Japanese War Memorial Ceremony
HD version
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=ReBjLv5RnVk&fmt=18

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• Yamaguchi
• shrine
• war
• memorial
• tribunal
• hero
• criminal
• innocent
• guilty
• showa
• shouwa
• yasukuni

[SuperSpuddie]

Why do you not teach history correctly? Why do you allow war criminals to be honoured? Why do you not pay reparations to those tortured or injured or comfort women?

Until you admit and act correctly you will still be seen as a nation of liars cheats and sadists many of whom with psycho sexual disorders.This generation should do the purging.This is how history will remember Japan-the land with tarnished sun!

[timtak1]

@SuperSpuddie I am neither Japanese, nor a history teacher. However, imho, many Japanese, including the current prime minister, do not think that those classed as war criminals by the Tokyo tribunals were really criminals, but merely loosers in a war. The Indian judge at the tribunals is often quoted. Many Japanese believe that the vast majority of comfort women were prostitutes.

What is "correct"? You seem to jump from one issue to another, assuming that the Japanese are wrong on all counts.

[timtak1]

@SuperSpuddie

I am from the UK like you. Do they now teach the worldview that you espouse in UK education?

[SuperSpuddie]

A place where many sub humans are buried.Remember the enjoyment on the faces of the sub humans in places like Nanking.This place should be used as atoil;et for the world.and they have never compensated or properly apologised for their sub species behaviour

[timtak1]

@SuperSpuddie

Japan gave a lot of, some might say massive amounts of, overseas development aid to China and I think that this was seen as partly as a reparation at least in Japan. There have been apologies, but the Japanese are not particularly into going over the past, and they do not demand apologies from others, from the Americans for bombing Nagasaki four days after Hiroshima for instance. When they remember the war, here and Hiroshima, they remember the suffering, not attempting to blame.

[timtak1]

@SuperSpuddie

Japan gave a lot of, some might say massive amounts of, overseas development aid to China and I think that this was seen as partly as a reparation at least in Japan. There have been apologies, but the Japanese are not particularly into going over the past, and they do not demand apologies from others, from the Americans for bombing Nagasaki four days after Hiroshima for instance. When they remember the war, here and Hiroshima, they remember the suffering, not attempting to blame

[timtak1]

@moosey62 Okay, what I think stinks about my attitude, is my lack of a subective take, or my subjective *dilettantism*. In the video I am excited by the controversy. Here was a ceremony, and in particular a memorial, that many would consider to be like a memorial to Nazis. And it was wild, stimuating, from my positionless-position. I would like to take my intellectual position in favour of the memorial. But instead, I stood on the fence, and this dilettantism is also subjective. That stank?

[timtak1]

@moosey62

I do happen to feel considerable sympathy to the Japanese view (that the "criminals" were not all that criminal, or no more so thatn soldiers on the other sides), and perhaps that my subjective opinion showed? Maybe. I have met Chinese people who consider debate on the criminality of Japanese war crime to be almost criminal, likening it to Holocaust revisionism, which is outlawed in France and Germany I believe.

[timtak1]

@moosey62

You said that I should not have made subjective comments, but saying that the memorial, to Japanese war criminals, is "controversial" does not seem to be subjective, rather statement of objective fact. So I remain confused. There those, especially many in Japan, who believe that the war trials were "victors justice," berating their heroes. There are also people especially in Asia, who feel that the accused were vile criminals. Rewatching I am not sure where my subjectivity comes in.

[timtak1]

@videouzleg

I would agree.