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JapanNewbie » Comfort Women Deniers take out Ads — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 15:52:19 +0000

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By: ampontan

ampontan — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 02:15:43 +0000

Hi, Ken: My grandfather was born in what is now Belarus, but I was born and grew up in the US.

By: Ken

Ken — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 16:58:31 +0000

How d’ye do, Mr. Sakovich?
Guessing from your name, is your root in any Slavonic countries?
Asahi Weekly has taken me here.
Following is another revising movement.
http://www.newschina.jp/news/category_9/child_29/item_3917.html
Chinese gov’t expressed unpleasant sentiment aganist the establishment of Diet members group to require removing fabrcated pictures from anti-Japan memorial building.

By: izanami

izanami — Sun, 17 Jun 2007 19:26:00 +0000

Oops, sorry for my misunderstanding.

I see. You view that the account of the incident, which I take to be (virtually) settled in the biased Western history, has actually been derived from (subjective) criticism.

By: ampontan

ampontan — Sun, 17 Jun 2007 06:53:19 +0000

Izanami: Let me think about what you wrote. Perhaps I expressed it that way because I don’t consider the history settled. (And it probably never will be.)

Thanks for your comments in the other post!

By: Izanami

Izanami — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 21:45:38 +0000

I guess this time we disagree from the beginning. I do not think they are “challening” overseas “criticism.” (This is the sort of rethorical manupulation seen in media, which you sometimes point out.) What they are doing is “challening” the “settled history.”

By: ponta

ponta — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 15:03:45 +0000

While I agree with some of their sentiment, I think they are extreme.
As for Nanjing massacre, in a sense, they contributed a lot to the issue. Shedding doubts on Chinese official claim itself is all right, But if they are trying to give an impression that there was no massacre, I think that is wrong.
I welcome debates on historical issue, and I want to hear the both sides of the story, but, if they are trying to give the impression Japan was innocent on all aspects, I think that is a fatally mistake as well as harming Japan diplomatically.
It is essential that Japan admit the wrongs she did.
That said, I think they can not become mainstream.
As Richard J Samuel says
Few mainstream academics, bureaucrats, or national politicians openly associate with the neoautonomists, and many disparage them.
http://www.japanfocus.org/images/UserFiles/File/2439.Samuels.securing/33.1samuels.pdf