Japanese mayor apologizes to U.S. over sex industry suggestion but not about relating it to Japanese
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[quote]Tokyo (CNN) -- A controversial Japanese politician apologized Monday for suggesting that U.S. military service members should use the adult entertainment industry in Japan more often to relieve sexual frustration and reduce aggression.
But he didn't back down over comments he made about the Japanese military's use of forced prostitution during World War II.[/quote]
[url]http://www.cnn.com/2013/05/27/world/asia/japan-us-hashimoto-apology/index.html?hpt=hp_t3[/url]
Well this is coming from the country that has the record for the most people having sex in the same room at once.
[QUOTE]'Comfort women' controversy[/QUOTE]
How can the Japanese even continue to deny their ww2 atrocities when they're so obvious. Its a greater shame to deny such events.
There are plenty of Japanese girls here willing to sleep with Americans that aren't prostitutes. Plus all the ones that are prostitutes are old and yucky. Get with it grandpa!
He sure knows us americans well. If I don't get my porn on a regular basis, I get the urge to rape japanese people too.
[QUOTE=Rangergxi;40806941]How can the Japanese even continue to deny their ww2 atrocities when they're so obvious. Its a greater shame to deny such events.[/QUOTE] the worse one is Unit 731
Did the US ever apologize for the Japanese concentration camps? Not trying to start an argument or defend Japan or anything, I'm just wondering.
[QUOTE=UnknownDude;40843850]Did the US ever apologize for the Japanese concentration camps? Not trying to start an argument or defend Japan or anything, I'm just wondering.[/QUOTE]
[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_American_internment#Reparations_and_redress[/url]
[editline]30th May 2013[/editline]
[quote]"In remembering, it is important to come to grips with the past. No nation can fully understand itself or find its place in the world if it does not look with clear eyes at all the glories and disgraces of its past. We in the United States acknowledge such an injustice in our history. The internment of Americans of Japanese ancestry was a great injustice, and it will never be repeated."[/quote]
Said by Bush Sr.
[QUOTE=InvaderNouga;40806944]There are plenty of Japanese girls here willing to sleep with Americans that aren't prostitutes. Plus all the ones that are prostitutes are old and yucky. Get with it grandpa![/QUOTE]
Only if you're a tentacle monster
[QUOTE=Rangergxi;40806941]How can the Japanese even continue to deny their ww2 atrocities when they're so obvious. Its a greater shame to deny such events.[/QUOTE]
No one likes to remember the shittiest points in their nation's history. Same can be said for Germany.
[QUOTE=Rangergxi;40806941]How can the Japanese even continue to deny their ww2 atrocities when they're so obvious. Its a greater shame to deny such events.[/QUOTE]
It's really common to see revisionist school books or history books that don't even bother glancing over WW2. They are trying to erase it from the surface of earth same way Turkey is trying to erase the Armenian Genocide from worldwide memory.
[QUOTE=UnknownDude;40843850]Japanese concentration camps?[/QUOTE]
When you put it like that you make it sound like we rounded up people with Japanese ancestry and exterminated them. We basically imprisoned them because we were extremely afraid of them becoming spies for the Empire
[QUOTE=Vaught;40844020]No one likes to remember the shittiest points in their nation's history. Same can be said for Germany.[/QUOTE]
Thing is, Germany does not deny Nazism has existed. They just agree it was a terrible fucking idea and they are moving on. Same goes with France and its Vichy government.
It's notably because Japan refuses to accept the atrocities they've done during the war that extreme nationalism is rising in huge numbers in there.
[QUOTE=Ganerumo;40844049]Thing is, Germany does not deny Nazism has existed. They just agree it was a terrible fucking idea and they are moving on. Same goes with France and its Vichy government.
It's notably because Japan refuses to accept the atrocities they've done during the war that extreme nationalism is rising in huge numbers in there.[/QUOTE]
Moving on? If you count "we don't talk about it" as moving on
Anyway, I doubt Japan will formally apologize for all their war crimes until the next few decades
[QUOTE=Ganerumo;40844049]Thing is, Germany does not deny Nazism has existed. They just agree it was a terrible fucking idea and they are moving on. Same goes with France and its Vichy government.
It's notably because Japan refuses to accept the atrocities they've done during the war that extreme nationalism is rising in huge numbers in there.[/QUOTE]
Not everyone is the same, gotta remember that. Japanese culture and history is not the same as European history. While the atrocities of war exist, some don't want to be reminded of a point in their history where their nation just went bonkers. The last part of your sentence confuses me. What do you mean by "... accept the atrocities they've done during the war that extreme nationalism is rising in huge numbers in there"? I'm not understanding the structure at least.
[QUOTE=Vaught;40844020]No one likes to remember the shittiest points in their nation's history. Same can be said for Germany.[/QUOTE]
not really. germany doesn't deny anything.
[QUOTE=yawmwen;40844179]not really. germany doesn't deny anything.[/QUOTE]
Matter of fact, they really beat themselves up about it.
why should they apologize for something that today's politicians didn't do
[QUOTE=Ganerumo;40844049]Thing is, Germany does not deny Nazism has existed. They just agree it was a terrible fucking idea and they are moving on. Same goes with France and its Vichy government.
It's notably because Japan refuses to accept the atrocities they've done during the war that extreme nationalism is rising in huge numbers in there.[/QUOTE]
IIRC, Japan had a huge issue with shame and honor and shit like that to the point where if the US tried to get them to accept the fact that what they did was wrong there would have either been another conflict or a mass sepukku on the Japanese islands. So instead the US decided not to press the issue because there was enough blood already.
[QUOTE=Akuma_lektro;40844328]why should they apologize for something that today's politicians didn't do[/QUOTE]
That is my thoughts exactly, it'd be like USA forcing Britain to apologize for the Revolutionary war and 1812.
[QUOTE=Akuma_lektro;40844328]why should they apologize for something that today's politicians didn't do[/QUOTE]
Because its easier to think of countries as stationary political entities, than of dozens of individual politicians who are changing every day.
[QUOTE=PaChIrA;40844404]That is my thoughts exactly, it'd be like USA forcing Britain to apologize for the Revolutionary war and 1812.[/QUOTE]
Britain is a bad example in this context. They didn't commit heinous crimes, they just tried to re-conquer the lands they lost.
[QUOTE=Nestophales;40844466]Britain is a bad example in this context. They didn't commit heinous crimes, they just tried to re-conquer the lands they lost.[/QUOTE]
I meant that both the USA and Britain had very different governments then, just like how Japan was in WW2
[QUOTE=Nestophales;40844466]Britain is a bad example in this context. They didn't commit heinous crimes, they just tried to re-conquer the lands they lost.[/QUOTE]
they committed heinous crimes against muh freedumz :(
[QUOTE=Wealth + Taste;40807140]He sure knows us americans well. If I don't get my porn on a regular basis, I get the urge to rape japanese people too.[/QUOTE]
Actually I think he was referring rise of sexual assault on female personal in the US military. What he's proposing kind of makes sense in a weird sort of way. Then again... it's Japan.
[QUOTE=Ganerumo;40844049]Thing is, Germany does not deny Nazism has existed. They just agree it was a terrible fucking idea and they are moving on. Same goes with France and its Vichy government.
It's notably because Japan refuses to accept the atrocities they've done during the war that extreme nationalism is rising in huge numbers in there.[/QUOTE]
[URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_war_apology_statements_issued_by_Japan"]http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_war_apology_statements_issued_by_Japan[/URL]
I find it odd you would generalize all of Japan so easily. Regardless of whatever textbook controversies have come up, saying Japan "doesn't accept" what happened in the war is preposterous. You do the people of Japan a disservice by perpetuating this stereotype.
Not to mention the fact that those offending textbooks were never even used by more than 1% of all schools, and it's an issue that isn't absent in the US, except that our issue was creationism and in some cases atrocities against Native Americans.
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