japanese revisionist history

aznpoopy · #1 12-09-2005, 04:59 PM

http://outpostnine.com/editorials/teacher41.html

japanese revisionism for you, ryosuke

"the only option to Roosevelt, who had been moving forward with his "plan vicotry," was to use embargoes to [b]force resource-poor japan into war. the US economy made a complete recovery once the americans entered the war."

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Taken from the Yasukuni War History Museum in Tokyo. I went through with one of my friends, and we had to laugh at just how slanted the whole thing was. Laugh, or cry over the absurdity. According to the text in the museum, the Japanese "expanded their defensive concerns" into Korea, helped "establish order and control" in China, and then were "forced into war" by the war-hungry American government. That whole Axis power thing is barely mentioned, and forget about trying to find anything that would portray the Japanese as something other than a peaceful people minding their own business in the Pacific. I mean, every country puts their own slant on history (while I learned that the American Revolution was a great act of freedom, I'm sure in Britain it's regarded as "those ungrateful little punks starting shit"), but the level of denial and disregard here was just outstanding.

This is actually why a lot of people are still really upset at Japan.

AmishBoy · #2 12-09-2005, 07:07 PM

Yeah just like we flew planes into the twin towers so we could kick some ass in the middle east.

What can I say we like to blow up things to the east.

ComradeGiant · #3 12-09-2005, 07:26 PM

If you take a little bit from our history, and a little bit from their history, you get the truth.

Roosevelt did place embargos on Japan because he felt they were becoming a threat to US interests in the Pacific. The Japanese felt it was necessary to send a warning to the US by crippling the US fleet at Pearl Harbor. In the end lots of people died because of retardation in high levels of government.