WHY did the Japense goverment just run a telivision add on Fox news?

[Dis]

CNN is getting too much fluff if you ask me. Too many celebrities and such.

since when do we have celebrities telling us how to live our lives . Celebrities are people who can't hold real jobs.

Fox News is biased. But any weenie can see through the bias and draw their own moderate conclusions.

So aside from NBC nightly news and sometimes headline news (which is CNN- but much quicker ), I watch Fox News.

[Ned]

I haven't read the whole thread, but if Japan, Inc. has placed an add ONLY on FOX, what does this tell us?

Perhaps they have a problem with the American right?

[MRT144]

dissident...most of those weenies just repeat what they heard on foxnews in the forum.

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by Drake Tungsten
At least Japanese human rights abuses are dead and not serving in the government like Chinese ones...

God forbid that we are still upset over the IJA slaughtering millions of Chinese and the Japanese government whitewashing its past atrocities.

[Drake Tungsten]

God forbid that we are still upset over the IJA slaughtering millions of Chinese and the Japanese government whitewashing its past atrocities.

Why do you still honor Mao's memory then? He killed more Chinese than the Japanese ever did...

[Q Classic]

I guess fifty years of utter pacifism doesn't mean anything...

fifty years of pacifism begun by macarthur, and forced by the us.
are you saying that 40 years of occupation, 500 years of war, really doesn't mean anything as well?

The Japanese have apologized before; it's just never been good enough for the South Koreans who feel the need to lop their fingers off whenever a Japanese PM goes to the Yasukuni Shrine.

when has the japanese government apologized for assassinating the korean royal line, for creating the comfort women, for destroying the korean state, trying to stamp out the culture and ethnicity, and brutally occupying the peninsula?
when has the japanese government admitted it might have done something slightly wrong in nanking and manchuria?
it appears once, according to your source. good for them. does this mean that the koreans and the chinese should immediately assume that the japanese will never be aggressive and militaristic again? i think not. note that the end of the article itself says that other amends should be made to improve relations.
it's interesting to note most of these protests occur when the government does something to try and whitewash history. the last major protest was when japan's ministry of education approved textbooks which made little mention of japan's occupation of northeast asia, and when it did, painted it as a good thing.
and please, don't group me or most other south koreans with all of those crazies who decide hurting themselves is a good way to protest. it's insulting.

I guess forgiving the sins of the dead is out of the question...

germany was forgiven, as far as i can tell, since it admitted the sins of its past. japan has not.

I get so sick of all this bull****. East Asia is going to explode into violence in a few decades, all because the people in the area are more concerned with holding historical grudges than actually working for peace...

strange, it seems as if the japanese and the skoreans are working for peace in east asia... i don't understand why you seem to be such an apologist for japan's past.

Why do you still honor Mao's memory then? He killed more Chinese than the Japanese ever did...

who ever said we honor mao? mao is one of the main reasons why korea's so fvcked up. you think koreans honor him? it's like asking a russophile who likes peter the great why he still honors stalin.

[Drake Tungsten]

strange, it seems as if the japanese and the skoreans are working for peace in east asia... i don't understand why you seem to be such an apologist for japan's past.

I'm hardly an apologist for Japan's past; Japan certainly has issues it needs to deal with, particularly its rather suspect examination of its own history. That being said, I've come to the conclusion that South Korean and Chinese actions are unreasonable and are exacerbating the problem far more than the actions (or lack of action) on the Japanese side. Fearing a remilitarized Japan is understandable and I would never criticize other East Asians for feeling that way. Protesting Japanese peacekeeping operations and other non-threatening actions is completely absurd, however, and I'll be damned if I'm going to give South Korean and Chinese protestors a free ride on this issue because of actions that took place a half-century ago. Japanese atrocities in WWII don't justify South Korean and Chinese idiocy today.

who ever said we honor mao? mao is one of the main reasons why korea's so fvcked up. you think koreans honor him? it's like asking a russophile who likes peter the great why he still honors stalin.

My comments were directed at Urban Ranger, who is Chinese. I certainly don't think that Koreans honor Mao...

[ranskaldan]

Originally posted by Drake Tungsten
I'm hardly an apologist for Japan's past; Japan certainly has issues it needs to deal with, particularly its rather suspect examination of its own history. That being said, I've come to the conclusion that South Korean and Chinese actions are unreasonable and are exacerbating the problem far more than the actions (or lack of action) on the Japanese side. Fearing a remilitarized Japan is understandable and I would never criticize other East Asians for feeling that way. Protesting Japanese peacekeeping operations and other non-threatening actions is completely absurd, however, and I'll be damned if I'm going to give South Korean and Chinese protestors a free ride on this issue because of actions that took place a half-century ago. Japanese atrocities in WWII don't justify South Korean and Chinese idiocy today.

This "idiocy" that you speak of is common to all humanity. Forgiveness has never come easily to oppressed nations.

who ever said we honor mao? mao is one of the main reasons why korea's so fvcked up. you think koreans honor him? it's like asking a russophile who likes peter the great why he still honors stalin.

My comments were directed at Urban Ranger, who is Chinese. I certainly don't think that Koreans honor Mao...

Mao did one good thing for China: he brought political unity, which provides a base for China's eventual renaissance. But I do not honor him for anything after 1949. He broke everything he touched from there onwards.

It's like Stalin, in a way - would Russia have withstood Germany without Stalin? History can be cruel at times.

[Drake Tungsten]

This "idiocy" that you speak of is common to all humanity. Forgiveness has never come easily to oppressed nations.

The idiocy I spoke of was less about forgiveness and more about inflammatory acts like cutting off one's fingers in protest of Yasukuni Shrine visits...

[ranskaldan]

The Yasukuni Shrine doesn't exactly house very pleasant characters.

[Ozz]

Originally posted by ranskaldan China's eventual renaissance.

I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for it.

[Drake Tungsten]

The Yasukuni Shrine doesn't exactly house very pleasant characters.

The Yasukuni Shrine honors over 2.5 million Japanese war dead, 14 of which are Class A war criminals. I fail to see how the questionable inclusion of a handful of sinful men negates the greater purpose of the shrine. I certainly don't think PM Koizumi is going there to honor just those 14...

[Q Classic]

The idiocy I spoke of was less about forgiveness and more about inflammatory acts like cutting off one's fingers in protest of Yasukuni Shrine visits...

if that's the idiocy you speak of, perhaps you ought to realize not all koreans would go so far as to do that. nor would all chinese. if they did, few koreans would be able to play starcraft as well as they did.

in fact, for you to call a very valid korean concern idiocy simply because of the actions of an extremely select few... does that not itself smack of idiocy? just as how one wouldn't judge all of the american population on those media whores on realitv, you can't assume that all of korea has an idiotic and baseless concern because a few nutjobs are willing to cut of their fingers to spite their hands.

those 14 class a war criminals were added to the records secretly, and have not been removed. that's mainly what the non-japanese protest. is there something wrong with that?

[Drake Tungsten]

in fact, for you to call a very valid korean concern idiocy simply because of the actions of an extremely select few... does that not itself smack of idiocy?

Protesting Japanese involvement in peacekeeping is idiocy as well and not just the view of extremists.

[JCG]

Here's an account of how the Japanese textbooks regarding the subject of war atrocities have changed over the years...

http://www.columbia.edu/cu/ccba/cear/issues/fall99/text-only/yoshida.htm

Still, I think this issue will remain a problem for a long time....