Seiharinokaze said...

Seiharinokaze at 03:39 PM JST - 4th August

It was the unexpected invasion into Manchuria by the Soviets more than anything else that shocked the Japanese leaders at the time and prompted them to accept the Potsdam Declaration. That's why they quickly convened an Imperial conference on August 9th (the day the Soviets began invasion) and decided to…

Posted in Do you consider the A-bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki to be war crimes? at 03:39 PM JST - 4th August
Seiharinokaze at 10:43 PM JST - 3rd August

Japan did accept it on August 10, 1945. Not nine days but four days after the first A-bombing and on the next day after the Soviets began invading. And for your information the day when Japan formally surrendered was on September 2, 1945 when the plenipotentiaries of the Japanese government…

Posted in Do you consider the A-bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki to be war crimes? at 10:43 PM JST - 3rd August
Seiharinokaze at 10:23 PM JST - 3rd August

Please refer to the following. I think everybody knows it.

http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/ポツダム宣言

Posted in Do you consider the A-bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki to be war crimes? at 10:23 PM JST - 3rd August
Seiharinokaze at 10:10 PM JST - 3rd August

The Soviets declared war against Japan on August 9, 1945. Japan accepted the Potsdam Declaration and noticed it to the Allied nations through its embassy in Switzerland on Aug. 10. and also announced it through Radio Tokyo. So Japan surrendered on the next day after the Soviets began invading.

Posted in Do you consider the A-bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki to be war crimes? at 10:10 PM JST - 3rd August
Seiharinokaze at 01:15 AM JST - 3rd August

onibaku,

Sorry I haven't read the book by De Mente yet. But he seems to base his theory on the book by Dr. Tsunoda which I read several years ago. The right half brain of humans irrespective of races and nationalities is called a "music brain" which mainly processes music,…

Posted in Why the Japanese Are a Superior People at 01:15 AM JST - 3rd August
Seiharinokaze at 09:54 PM JST - 2nd August

onibaku,

The haiku you presented for discussion is, I think, relevant and very suggestive to the present topic. The sound of cicadas was not a noise or zatsuon 雑音 or some rasping meaningless sound but a voice of living creatures with some message even to us human beings. I don't…

Posted in Why the Japanese Are a Superior People at 09:54 PM JST - 2nd August
Seiharinokaze at 07:13 PM JST - 2nd August

onibaku,

We're not gonna play on words. Do you consider the cry of a semi as silence..... but the undeniable fact is that he describes that cry as "penetrating the rocks" which is not exactly what I would say of a gentle sound.

It may not be a gentle sound.…

Posted in Why the Japanese Are a Superior People at 07:13 PM JST - 2nd August
Seiharinokaze at 04:22 PM JST - 2nd August

First to OssanAmerica,

Though I don't know how the findings by Dr. Tsunoda have been repudiated, he argues that Japanese hear vowels with their left half brain. Their brain deals with vowels as words. Whereas the people other than Japanese and Polynesians hear vowels, if uttered without consonants, with their…

Posted in Why the Japanese Are a Superior People at 04:22 PM JST - 2nd August
Seiharinokaze at 01:00 PM JST - 2nd August

I am not sure if Japanese are superior or disparate to other people in anything because of the way their brains process sound information from outside. But I remember being surprised to hear a comment by an American who said that the chirring of cicadas in this season is *just…

Posted in Why the Japanese Are a Superior People at 01:00 PM JST - 2nd August
Seiharinokaze at 01:23 PM JST - 31st July

"Chastise violent China" was a slogan by which Japan was bogged down in an endless war with China. The slogan sounded rightful at the time. So we better take heed when some such rightful voice begins to be heard. There may be those who secretly welcome it. Refueling mission which…

Posted in MSDF's refueling mission to be terminated if DPJ wins power at 01:23 PM JST - 31st July