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To add with a sentence like that does not make up for your insults.
You should know your limits while touching on sensitive issues, you are not well versed in East Asian politics.

“if I happened to do”?
You are so inflammatory, it looks like the article is out to make all Japanese look like racists and diehard nationalists.

You should make an effort to conduct investigation, before pretending to know all the answers.

to click the links: The Divided Memories and Reconciliation project of the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia Pacific Research Center at Stanford University
http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/columns/commentary/20081122dy03.htm

Do you claim that there is no freedom of speech and publication in Japan?
Do you claim that the education of Japan is nationalistic more than Korea or USA?

Why does it waste your own free time by watching anime which was made by biased Japanese?

For looking down on Japanese?
For your superiority complex?

Why don’t you enjoy the pop culture which were made by innocent USA or liberal Korea?

I’m sorry for my mistaken English.

>Japan has a traditional sense of strong nationalism and even isolationism
>America also has very patriotic sensibilities. But at the same time, American pop culture has never hesitated to criticize or condemn perceived American flaws.

Yes, it’s true that Japan has some nationalists and isolationists, but their opinions are not popular in Japan. I believe “Most Japanese people (not only pop culture) have never hesitated to criticize or condemn perceived Japanese flaws”. I hope and guess the U.S. people are the same as us, of course.

Please be careful to say bad things about Japan. Many people read your articles. You are influential. I hope not to see your readers have anti-Japanese feeling based on incorrect information.

Thank you for your reading. I’m looking forward to seeing your following articles.

Why you think so? You must think who make you believe blindly such matter.

Many of Japanese war atrocities said by them are Fictitious Story made by Chinese, Korean and American who have a traditional sense of strong nationalism, isolationism and even Racism, not an especially strong trend of self criticism.

For example, you know?

Chines Fascisim government teach Chinese people that 300,000 citizen were killed by Japanese in Nanking, in WW2.

But there are less tyan 10,000 discovered citizen’s Skeleton killed by Army in WW2 in Nanking. Did more than 29,000 citizen go to anywhere? Warp? Magic? You must know that there are more tyan 300,000 “discovered” citizen’s Skeleton killed by Chinese Army before the 18th century in Nanking.

In WW2,there ware more than 20 foreigner’s journalist in Nanking, but any of them didn’t see and report not only such slaughter (KILLED 300,000 citizen!!) not also any Japanese war atrocities. You say all of them are liar?

You mus study many record made by not only Chinese Fascisim government but also Japanese and other country’s people in WW2.

You know more than 500,000 citizen by air raid by American Army. You know such Fact?

I urge you merely to say “It’s catch 22!” when you feel annoyed with his line “Japan has a traditional sense of strong nationalism and even isolationism (and I’m sure that there are countless Japanese nationals who will take offense to that assertion),” because that will be the first step to correct his mistaken idea more rationally than only to flame him nervously.

What I want to hear first is how long you understand a claim of people such as you labeled ‘Japanese nationalist’.
Most of them are serious researchers, and the claim is based on a ‘fact’.
If they insist that something should not be written in textbook,it’s simply because it’s not ‘fact’.Never because it is inconvenient.
How much knowledge will you have about a claim of the `Japanese nationalist’?
If you look down on them by incorrect information , you are making tremendous mistake.

More than 60 years already passed from the second Great War.
Being sacrificed by war first　is　the truth , the numerical propaganda that was a large quantity of in second Great War front and back was made.
It is great work to uncover a lie of the propaganda, but serious researchers are doing it little by little by using the ‘fact’.
Are they ‘evil nationalist’ or a ‘historical revisionist’?

How about american?
Are you still belive in propaganda made in war?
why hesitate to reveal popaganda by using ‘fact’?
Because don’t want to criticize or condemn American flaws?
Never doubt ‘American Justice’?

I’m pretty sure we don’t see too many of those kinds of things in Japan.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VuErRULlgl4

John, I’m afraid that that assertion is a typical catch 22, whether it is correct or not. If someone from Japan complained it was a biased opinion, you can label him/her as an evil Japanese nationalist. Don’t you think it’s unfair?

First, you’re saying as if Nishio’s assertion were widely accepted in Japanese society, while you do not point out the fact that his influence is rather small in Japanese press, that the textbook of Japanes history his group made was not as histrically-biased as many non-Japanese intellectuals believed (they sometimes criticize it they have not read it while it is available in English on the web), and that very few of the Japanese high schools adopted it since they feared they might be involved in hot controversy.

Second, Japanese historians merely suspect that Chinese sometimes release inflated numbers of casualities during WWII. However, they always lose their head even when they are criticized from purely objective academic views, seeing as if Japan were trying to re-write Chinese history.

I believe it is no less sinful to inflate numbers of victims than to assert Japan made war along perfectly with the then international law of war, however tragic it was to the Chinese.

Third, the Koreans’ hatred to Japan sometimes seems attributed to their national inferiority complex to the land of rising sun (and sometimes beyond rational appreciation). For example, when the South Korean team had games (s!) with the Japanese one in World Baseball Championship, a professional baseball team in Korea put out T-shirts on which “Let’s assasinate Ichiro” is printed. Ichiro is only a baseball player, not a politician. Such uncivilized manners certainly get any people angry whatever nationality you have.