Seiharinokaze said...

Seiharinokaze at 07:54 PM JST - 19th August

DanManjt

I posted that quote to drive home the point that Japan, along with her ally Nazi Germany, fought for bad, that US fought for good. And that makes all the difference.

Simply put, Japan's main cause for the war in China was to end antagonism as early as possible…

Posted in Yasukuni at 07:54 PM JST - 19th August
Seiharinokaze at 02:15 AM JST - 19th August

In April 1940 and for nine months following, with American entry into the war still only hypothetical, the study group proposed a more tolerant stance toward Japan, hoping thereby to contain Tokyo’s expansionist designs on the Pacific islands and the Asian mainland.

And any more tolerant stance was proposed? Such…

Posted in Yasukuni at 02:15 AM JST - 19th August
Seiharinokaze at 05:33 PM JST - 18th August

Care to explain what enormous power compelled Japan to do a sneak attack Pearl Harbor.......Russians? Germans?

The enormous power seemed to have let the US president be waiting for the sneak attack while holding a tea party on the morning of the day. In 1939, even two years before the…

Posted in Yasukuni at 05:33 PM JST - 18th August
Seiharinokaze at 09:48 PM JST - 17th August

one must recognise that some causes are objectively better than others, even if they are advanced by equally bad means. [Knowing the difference] is essentially a moral effort.

By reading history books on this period, what I can gather as the primary cause on Japan's side for the war between…

Posted in Yasukuni at 09:48 PM JST - 17th August
Seiharinokaze at 02:18 AM JST - 17th August

They are not remembered as trained killers or anyone striving for some nefarious ends. How can you honor anyone with evil ends? They are just being remembered as selfless beings in the commemorators' memory. Ask for yourself the two old men who carried the imperial navy flag what kind of…

Posted in Yasukuni at 02:18 AM JST - 17th August
Seiharinokaze at 12:42 AM JST - 16th August

The ex post facto nature of the Tokyo Trial undermines the legality of the trial for ever. Until August 8, 1945, there had been no crime titled "crime against peace" (class A). The newly contrived crime was applied only to the Japanese leaders at the trial disregarding the preceding Western…

Posted in Japan ministers, but not premier, visit war shrine at 12:42 AM JST - 16th August
Seiharinokaze at 08:48 PM JST - 10th August

However, there are also right-wingers in the church, and some of them go so far as saying that Catholics not only can, but should visit Yasukuni because of something a Vatican cardinal said in 1936.

In 1936 it was not Papa Pius XII but Pius XI who reigned as Pope…

Posted in The Catholic Church and Yasukuni shrine at 08:48 PM JST - 10th August
Seiharinokaze at 03:02 PM JST - 10th August

I heard that unlike Protestant churches the Vatican used to recognize the war between Japan and China was more of a war against Bolshevism. That's why the Vatican approved Catholics' visit to the shrine during the wartime and also why after the war Fr. Bruno Bitter, the representative of the…

Posted in The Catholic Church and Yasukuni shrine at 03:02 PM JST - 10th August
Seiharinokaze at 12:40 AM JST - 2nd August

bibric

The game is over. Now, it's time to talk about Tsushima and Oki Islands which originally belongs to Korea

More importantly the game cannot be over until the two Koreas becomes one. How about moving forward on your own before bothering about Tsushima and Oki?

Besides what does Daemado…

Posted in Bush orders S Korea's ownership of disputed islets reinstated in database at 12:40 AM JST - 2nd August
Seiharinokaze at 12:36 AM JST - 31st July

But the matter-of-the-fact is, Korea now occupies (owns) the island and that is not going to change. It's gone. It's as brutally simple as that. It is no longer claimable as Japanese territory. In the same way as the Ainu have no claim to Hokkaido and Northern territories stolen from…

Posted in Japan criticizes S Korean PM's Takeshima visit at 12:36 AM JST - 31st July