Guru29's past comments

  • -1

    Guru29

    Guru it is only unsettled to you, only you

    So you think I am the only signatory of those WWII peace treaties/ agreements that I shown to you here?

    The truth is these treaties/ agreements are not only internationally recognized but they are also the foundation of peace in Asia.

    If you are bent on helping Japan to overturn these treaties of peace and reclaim the territories it lost to the Allies under these treaties, then at least you should be aware of the consequences of this action.

    Posted in: China trying to strengthen its claim to Okinawa

  • -2

    Guru29

    Unsettled ? To who?

    Even the US government admitted that the issue is unsettled indirectly in the following statement regarding the 1971 reversion treaty:

    "The United States believes that a return of administrative rights over those islands to Japan, from which the rights were received, can in no way prejudice any underlying claims. The United States cannot add to the legal rights Japan possessed before it transferred administration of the islands to us, nor can the United States, by giving back what it received, diminish the rights of other claimants."

    And the issue is clearly unsettled according to the whole series of WWII treaties/ agreements. For example, the San Francisco Peace Treaty signed between the US and Japan in 1951 says:

    "Japan will concur in any proposal of the United States to the United Nations to place under its trusteeship system, with the United States as the sole administering authority, Nansei Shoto south of 29° north latitude (including the Ryukyu Islands and the Daito Islands)"

    And by the way, the UN trusteeship system did help many countries to gain independence since its foundation.

    Posted in: China trying to strengthen its claim to Okinawa

  • -2

    Guru29

    The USSR was not involved in writing the Potsdam deceleration.

    This is what the Japanese Instrument of Surrender says about the role of USSR in Potsdam Declaration:

    "We, acting by command of and in behalf of the Emperor of Japan, the Japanese Government and the Japanese imperial General Headquarters, hereby accept the provisions set forth in the declaration issued by the heads of the Governments of the United States, China and Great Britain on 26 July 1945, at Potsdam, and subsequently adhered to by the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, which four powers are hereafter referred to as the Allied Powers.

    We hereby proclaim the unconditional surrender to the Allied Powers of the Japanese Imperial General Headquarters and of all Japanese armed forces and all armed forces under Japanese control wherever situated."

    Posted in: China trying to strengthen its claim to Okinawa

  • -3

    Guru29

    China can not project power and that ability to project power to all corners of the globe is what defines a superpower.

    I have no interest in the definition of superpower. But China's long-range missiles certainly can reach most parts if not all of the world.

    Posted in: China trying to strengthen its claim to Okinawa

  • -3

    Guru29

    How about letting the Okinawans have Okinawa? seems fairest to me.

    Yes, that's the best way. From the following disclosed US document, it is very clear that China was willing to accept independence of Ryukyu at the Cairo Conference in 1943 just as they accepted the independence of Korea, another vassal state of China.

    "During a private dinner with the Chiangs on the evening of November 23, President Roosevelt asked Chiang China's intentions regarding the Ryukyu Islands. According to the memorandum written by the Chinese side (Roosevelt's special assistant Harry Hopkins was present but did not apparently take notes), "The President referred to the question of the Ryukyu Islands and enquired more than once whether China would want the Ryukyus." To this, Chiang reportedly replied that "China would be agreeable to joint occupation of the Ryukyus by China and the United States and, eventually, joint administration by the two countries under the trusteeship of an international organization. (UN trusteeship as described in the San Francisco Peace Treaty?)""

    By the way, the UN trusteeship system did help many countries to gain independence since its foundation.

    Posted in: China trying to strengthen its claim to Okinawa

  • -3

    Guru29

    If you'd been less hasty in posting that little tidbit, you would also have discovered that the Potsdam declaration was signed for China by Chiang Kai-shek, leader of the Nationalists and very much anti-Communist and anti-Mao.

    And you have no idea that PRC is the legal successor of China or ROC?

    the USA has actually vowed to SUPPORT with military force Japan's right to administer the Senkaku Islands.

    That's exactly what the Japanese government tried to get the US government to commit but with no success so far. As for now, it remains a wishful thinking of the right-wing Japanese.

    Posted in: China trying to strengthen its claim to Okinawa

  • -3

    Guru29

    @Guru Russia was not one of the authors of the Potsdam deceleration.

    You have no idea that Russia is the legal successor of USSR? So you probably have no idea that the current Japanese government is the legal successor of Imperial Japan too?

    Posted in: China trying to strengthen its claim to Okinawa

  • -3

    Guru29

    I am a realist and anyone who thinks that Okinawa is going to become autonomous or independent or a part of China have to be smoking something pretty strong to get that high.

    As long as the sovereignty issue of Ryukyu remains unsettled (and the Americans kept it that way on purpose), it will remain a military colony of the Americans. Even President Eisenhower made it clear that the U.S. intended to keep its military bases in Okinawa indefinitely in his State of Union Message in 1954.

    Posted in: China trying to strengthen its claim to Okinawa

  • -8

    Guru29

    Okay, take all Senkaku discussions off the table, change Article 9, build up weaponry and enlarge the Japanese military. That will make China think again and shut up the whiners who keep saying Japan is hiding behind the USA.

    Japan's claim over the Ryukyu is a violation of the whole series of WWII peace treaties/ agreement that restored peace in Asia. These include the Potsdam Declaration (terms of surrender for Japan in WWII), Japanese Instrument of Surrender (agreement to the terms of surrender), San Francisco Peace Treaty and etc.

    For example, the Potsdam Declaration says:

    "The terms of the Cairo Declaration shall be carried out and Japanese sovereignty shall be limited to the islands of Honshu, Hokkaido, Kyushu, Shikoku and such minor islands as we (US, UK, China and Russia) determine."

    However, since the 1960s or 1970s, Japan have been trying to reclaim the territories it lost to the Allies under these treaties such as the Ryukyus, South Kurile islands and etc.

    Mind you that China takes any use of force by Japan to reclaim the territories it lost under the Potsdam Agreement and the Japanese Instrument of Surrender as a resumption of WWII. And you think Japan can really beat China in a resumption of WWII?

    Posted in: China trying to strengthen its claim to Okinawa

  • 0

    Guru29

    China is trying to strengthen its claim on tiny, uninhabited, Japanese-controlled islands by raising questions about the much larger Okinawa chain that is home to more than a million Japanese along with major U.S. military installations.

    Then shouldn't the title be changed to "China trying to strengthen its claim on Diaoyu or Pinnacle or Senkaku Islands" instead of "China trying to strengthen its claim to Okinawa"?

    Title of that article is misleading.

    Yes, I am of the same feeling that either the writer or AP or someone else used a wrong title on purpose.

    Posted in: China trying to strengthen its claim to Okinawa

  • 0

    Guru29

    In 1978, the Shinto priests enshrined 14 top or Class A war criminals convicted in Allied trials.

    The decision to enshrine the 14 top WWII criminals was actually reached in 1969. There are documents that show that Yasukuni war shrine only agreed to the enshrinement of the 14 top WWII criminals in 1969 upon recommendation by the Japanese government when Eisaku Sato, the younger brother of Nobusuke Kishi and granduncle of Shinzo Abe was the Prime Minister.

    From Kyodo News, State in '69 OK'd war criminal inclusion

    "Among the documents are lists dated from Jan. 31, 1969, presented at a meeting between shrine officials and the then Health and Welfare Ministry of people who could be enshrined at Yasukuni and the document says the shrine and the ministry shared the view that Class-A war criminals are "able to be honored."

    The ministry and the shrine also agreed not to make public the idea that Yasukuni would enshrine the war criminals, a decision that appears to be linked to the constitutional issue of state and religion remaining separate."

    Posted in: Abe defends right to visit Yasukuni Shrine

  • 1

    Guru29

    Abe, whose grandfather was arrested but not prosecuted as a Class A war criminal, hit back at criticism of his views on history

    Shinzo Abe's grandfather, Nobusuke Kishi isn't the only top WWII criminal in Shinzo Abe's family line. His great granduncle, Yosuke Matsuoka, the biggest partner of Adolf Hitler in Asia is one of the 14 top WWII criminals enshrined (i.e. promoted to kami/god) in Yasukuni. A memo from Emperor Hirohito, disclosed in 2006, revealed that he stopped visiting Yasukuni Shrine because of the enrollment of war criminals in 1978, stating "they even enshrined Matsuoka and Shiratori".

    And this is Yosuke Matsuoka

    http://bemil.chosun.com/nbrd/files/BEMIL085/upload/2006/09/HitlerMatsuoka.jpg

    http://bemil.chosun.com/nbrd/files/BEMIL085/upload/2006/09/Hitlermatsuokawalk.jpg

    Posted in: Abe defends right to visit Yasukuni Shrine

  • -1

    Guru29

    Abe should suggest that people should pray at their family's Kamidana instead of Yasukuni if they want to pray dead soul. Each familly had kamidana and Butsudan for many generations,

    Excellent! That's exactly what common Japanese do to commemorate their ancestors. There is absolutely no need to go to the shrine.

    By the way, you asked me what State Shinto is. I can tell you the Yasukuni form of worship is exactly State Shinto. Before 1945, State Shinto was the national religion of Japan. It was a religion created by the Meji Oligarchs to encourage/ brainwash the Japanese into sacrificing their lives for God, ie. the emperor. State Shinto was also the main instrument that the fascist Japanese government used for spreading of fascism and militarism between 1868-1945 (also known as State Shinto period.)

    From world-religions-professor.com

    "Shinto became the state religion, and was used to promote a distinct ideology of Japanese superiority. Passages from Shinto mythology were appropriated to support the Emperor's divine status via his direct lineage back to Amaterasu, the racial superiority of the Japanese people and the general superiority of their land because of their divine origins. Moreover, these supremacist ideologies were taught in school curricula and in public civic life... Emperor Hirohito in 1946 denounced his own divinity as well as the racial superiority of Japanese people."

    Posted in: Abe defends right to visit Yasukuni Shrine

  • 0

    Guru29

    Hence your sentence of "You mean the US government have different positions on the administrative rights of Diaoyu/Senkaku and the administrative rights of Ryukyu?" should be corrected to

    If you can't answer my question, say so. I will not be wasting my time reading your replies to the questions that you ask yourself.

    Posted in: Chinese general says Ryukyu islands do not belong to Japan

  • 0

    Guru29

    Again, you are missing the last sentence of Article 3 which concludes

    It doesn't matter since the description in the latter sentence is already covered in the first sentence under "United States as the sole administering authority."

    Posted in: Chinese general says Ryukyu islands do not belong to Japan

  • 0

    Guru29

    Guru. Those are U.S. position on Senkaku's only.

    You mean the US government have different positions on the administrative rights of Diaoyu/Senkaku and the administrative rights of Ryukyu?

    How could that be when they were all administered by the same governing body? And how could that be when they were all handed over in one single package under Ryukyu/Daito in one single treaty?

    So isn't it clear that the administrative rights of Diaoyu/Senkaku and the administrative rights of Ryukyu are exactly the same thing?

    Posted in: Chinese general says Ryukyu islands do not belong to Japan

  • -4

    Guru29

    Guru...you are so far off base it's laughable. And wrong too.

    Wrong?

    Which part is wrong? Care to elaborate?

    Tens of million of lives were lost in WWII for the establishment of peace based on the Potsdam Declaration, Japanese Instrument of Surrender, San Francisco Peace Treaty and etc. You think these treaties/ agreements are just jokes like what the right-wing Japanese here believe?

    And Japan's reclaiming of territories it lost to the Allies under these treaties such as the Ryukyus, South Kuril islands and etc. is a series matter which can easily lead to a resumption of WWII or starting of WWIII. You think this is laughable?

    Posted in: Chinese general says Ryukyu islands do not belong to Japan

  • -5

    Guru29

    70-80 years ago the United States and a great many other countries went to war because some countries displayed exactly this kind of behavior. The result was a great number of deaths and suffering.

    Yes, Japan's invasion of Asia during its period of fascist expansion (1868-1945 also known as State Shinto period) caused the lives of tens of million of people, mostly Asian. And the establishment of peace based on the series of peace treaties/ agreements such as Potsdam Declaration, Japanese Instrument of Surrender, San Francisco Peace Treaty and etc. will not be possible without the sacrifice of these lives.

    Therefore, let's urge Japan to abide by these peace treaties which Japan has tried to overturn since the 1970s by reclaiming the territories it lost to the Allies in these treaties such as the Ryukyus.

    Posted in: Chinese general says Ryukyu islands do not belong to Japan

  • -3

    Guru29

    And it was the Okinawan people themselves that were pushing for a reversion of Okinawa back to Japan.

    The people of Ryukyu did agree to the return of administration of Ryukyu to Japan on one condition – that Japan drives out the American occupying forces or all US military personnel on the islands. Japan however rejected the offer.

    At the end, the Americans did transfer the administrative rights of Ryukyu to Japan without consulting the Ryukyuans but said the transfer of the administrative rights will have nothing to do with the final sovereignty of Ryukyu in the following statement:

    "The United States believes that a return of administrative rights over those islands to Japan, from which the rights were received, can in no way prejudice any underlying claims. The United States cannot add to the legal rights Japan possessed before it transferred administration of the islands to us, nor can the United States, by giving back what it received, diminish the rights of other claimants."

    It is therefore only logical to conclude that the final sovereignty of Ryukyu is still an unsettled issue and should be settled through the UN trusteeship system as agreed between President Roosevelt and Chiang Kai Shek at the Cairo Conference in 1943 and as described in the San Francisco Peace Treaty signed between the US and Japan in 1951 which says:

    "Japan will concur in any proposal of the United States to the United Nations to place under its trusteeship system, with the United States as the sole administering authority, Nansei Shoto south of 29° north latitude (including the Ryukyu Islands and the Daito Islands)"

    By the way, the UN trusteeship system did help many countries to gain independence since its foundation.

    Posted in: Chinese general says Ryukyu islands do not belong to Japan

  • -3

    Guru29

    Independence for the Ryukus, he means? Or give them to China?

    From the following disclosed US document, it is very clear that China was willing to accept independence of Ryukyu at the Cairo Conference in 1943 just as they accepted the independence of Korea, another vassal state of China.

    "During a private dinner with the Chiangs on the evening of November 23, President Roosevelt asked Chiang China's intentions regarding the Ryukyu Islands. According to the memorandum written by the Chinese side (Roosevelt's special assistant Harry Hopkins was present but did not apparently take notes), "The President referred to the question of the Ryukyu Islands and enquired more than once whether China would want the Ryukyus." To this, Chiang reportedly replied that "China would be agreeable to joint occupation of the Ryukyus by China and the United States and, eventually, joint administration by the two countries under the trusteeship of an international organization. (UN trusteeship as described in the San Francisco Peace Treaty?)""

    Posted in: Chinese general says Ryukyu islands do not belong to Japan

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