Comments on: Guest Blogger: The Yasukuni Shrine

By: Lyn

Lyn — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 20:54:09 +0000

a few years late of this convo, but i agree with michael.

By: Iris

Iris — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 15:13:12 +0000

Gear up for grub with a tripleheader of pigskin, including a meeting of brothers in Dallas. Everybody knows it’s been a rough year for her, but find out who else had issues

By: Michael

Michael — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 07:50:44 +0000

Japanese people as individuals are usually very nice- provided they aren’t in what they view as a higher position than you… can you say hostel owner?

The Japanese people as a culture and a nation should be restricted to the islands that gave rise to them. Once they conglomerate in large numbers outside the boundaries of their own super-restrictive society, they turn into crazy, uninhibited monsters.

They’re so used to their warped rules, that when they’re given freedom as a group, they don’t know what to do with it. They lose all sense of perspective, judgment, even humanity. The rest of Asia (not just China) knows this all too well.

The Japanese in Japan, as individuals, can’t even imagine committing the atrocities they did outside their borders. As such, there is a major disconnect between the Japanese individual, and Japan as a whole. A flawed society, and an island nation… insecure in both senses, a lack of proper perspective.

It’s why the Chinese like to tack a “small” behind Japan: 小日本。

Silly little Japan.

By: cc

cc — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 07:35:36 +0000

The people who worked out the Yakasuni text and the people who believe it are really humurous.

By: Chiang

Chiang — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 02:10:34 +0000

-Ben
I’m sorry that I forgot what extactly the textbook says because I read it more than ten years ago when I was at school. But I’m quite sure that what it says is definitely opposite to the words at the Yakasuni Shrine.
As a Chinese, I don’t trust the words at the Yakasuni Shrine. But I think Chinese textbook is a little subjective too.
BTW, I noticed your flag is the Stars and Stripes now.

By: Benjamin Ross

Benjamin Ross — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 14:29:34 +0000

James-
Any chance you could translate some of the passages from a Chinese textbook on the events surrounding World War II? Might be interesting for comparison.

By: James Chiang

James Chiang — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 08:33:01 +0000

The passages at the Yakasuni Shrine you listed are totally different from what Chinese textbook says.

By: Kris

Kris — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 17:27:58 +0000

Does anyone else find Don A. just annoying? My guess is Don isn’t shaming Ben, just making himself look rather obsessive. At least from where I am sitting.

By: Wei

Wei — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 16:27:41 +0000

Don, you are on the wrong page, sorry to say so.

BTW, God would leave us human beings some room for error–that’s Humanity you see?

By: owshawng

owshawng — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 03:10:18 +0000

Those descriptions are really offensive. Wonder if they got Karl Rove to write them? No wonder there is still so much bad blood between china and japan.