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<<<staff edit>>> I hope your views are somewhat unique in Japan.... I never really had any negative feelings about Japan until I ran into you and your idea that victims of Japanese war crimes deserved it because they were weak. If you actually read or listened to the true horror of what...

Are you saying they deserved to be raped and murdered by Japan because they were weak? I think China is no strong enough to rape and murder Japan... should they do so because they can? You may soon get your answer if you keep talking like that. Japan was arrogant and vicious in China...

Here is my thinking on that. Think of an analogous situation; a big chemical company poisons your town's drinking water; it happened 35 years ago. The directors and chairman who were in charge at the time are long since dead; your children and grandchildren come down with rare cancers. They...

Yes; Japan committed its share of atrocities in the day also; I don't think offering reparations is an insult to our victims. At the same time, I agree that money can't truly make up for what was done. Also, there is a reasonable argument to be made as to whether a modern generation can be, or...

I totally agree with this post that I am quoting. I am currently reading Nick Turse's new book about Vietnam, Kill Anything that Moves; a more sobering and depressing accounting is hard to imagine. I remember reading the Gulag Archipeligo, by Solzhenitsyn, back in the 70's. Moral outrage is...