Thom Stewart wrote:
Doug,

You think about it!

I have.

I have also avoided being indoctrinated with a lot of propaganda about
how those inscrutable little yellow devils are all ancestor-worhipping
dunces.

... They were educated to believe in the Emperor God,
Sintoizm, Hari Kari, Kamikazi (Devine Wind of Deliverance)

Bull****.

Shintoism is quite simple and direct. It is a natural expression of the
human belief that there is more going on in the world than meets the eye.

Hari Kari is a vulgar term for suicide, which is properly termed
seppuku. The cultural belief in honorable suicide is basically the
ultimate in "death before dishonor." Think about where else you might
have heard that...

Kamikaze is two words: Kami = spirit and Kaze = wind. Often translated
as "divine wind," the word originally meant the typhoon which destroyed
Kublai Khan's invasion fleet and saved Japan. This was an actual
historical event and is well documented.

.... They were a
rather poorly educated chaste society in the 1930 & 1940.

More bull****. The Japanese were a feudal society in 1870, and by 1900
had adopted *all* the technological advances Europe and America could
teach them. You claim that two generation later, they were backwards &
ignorant? Sorry, you're still looking at comic books, not reality.


Doug I knew them. I seen the masses really blossom under Democratic
Life. They were not STUPID; they were held back!

Thom, the Japanese adopted a parliamentary democracy under a monarchy,
which they still have, in 1876. If you saw them blossom under democracy,
then you're a heck of a lot older than I thought!!

Regards
Doug King