Subj : Re: Japanese Common Sens
To   : Bob Breed
From : Lee Lofaso
Date : Fri May 31 2013 13:55:02

Hello Bob,

>LL>The Land of the Rising Sun is filled with wonderful people, a people
>LL>who deserve far more credit than what they have received.  For example,
>LL>during WWII, the Japanese people gave refuge to many Jews, thus saving
>LL>them from certain death at the hands of the Nazis.

BB>Yes, in Shanghi.   That was an open city for many years, that is
BB>anyone could enter without papers - thus filled with white Russians
BB>and Jews.

China had been carved up by foreign powers thus making it suitable
for outsiders.  Furthermore, entire countries were carved out of what
once was China.  In a way, Chinese and Japanese are the same people,
given the Japans were settled by Chinese runaways.

BB>But the story about not turning over their Jews can be traced to
BB>a very wise Jewish Rabbi, that found out that the Nazi's were
BB>indeed asking the Japanese to round up the Jews living there.
BB>He went to the Japanese commandant and said the only reason
BB>they're asking for us is because they believe we're inferior just
BB>like they look at YOU!  To them, only blue-eyed blondes are the
BB>chosen ones.

That is the Jewish version.  The Japanese version is much different.
In short, Japan invaded China in order to free the Chinese from
oppression.  For the Japanese, freeing Asians from the yoke of white
colonialism was their calling.  People in the West fail to understand
the Japanese mind, as their culture is too different to comprehend.
For example, the phrase "comfort girls" is not what you think ...

BB>Well, now ya gotta conflict as the Japanese feel that's
BB>their role - the chosen ones. :)  So bottom line is no Jews
BB>were rounded up.

Only because the Jews had no "comfort girls" to offer.

BB>End result is yes, Jewish lives were saved, but there was an
BB>underlying reason and it's not just humanitarian as much as a
BB>thumb in the Nazi eye. :)

It is more than that.

The Japanese consider themselves as being the "white race of
the Orient."  Culturally, intellectually, and in every other way
superior to all Asian peoples.  In the Japanese mind, there were
three classes of people.  The highest class was Japanese.  Below
the Japanese were all other Asian peoples.  The lowest class were
whites.

During WWII, the only people in Asia/Oceania who actively opposed
the Japanese were Filipinos. And some of them were switch hitters,
changing sides depending on the light of day (or night).  The only
reason I can think of as to why many Filipinos chose to side with
Americans was because FDR had promised independence for them once
the war was over.  Harry Truman kept that promise (FDR had died
in office prior to the end of the war) knowing what the alternative
would have been, as Filipinos were prepared to take to the hills.

There is more that can be said about the Japanese during that
period.  But that was a different time, a different place.  It
should also be remembered that not all Japanese soldiers were
monsters, many of them finding such actions so atrocious to the
point of going AWOL.

We like to paint Nazis as being evil monsters, the same as
we like to paint Japanese of that time as being evil monsters.
However, American soldiers also did much the same thing, raping
women and killing prisoners, along with taking "souvenirs" of
gold teeth, etc., back home.

War is hell, and nothing to be proud of.  No people should be
ostracized because of past events, or because of a military gone
wild.

--Lee


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