Reply #39: thanks

[bpilgrim]

and as a former resident...

1. i hope this article isn't true as well.

2. i agree 100%

3. Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi on Monday called North Korea an ''unpardonable'' country that abducts and kills Japanese in a speech in Yamagata Prefecture, ahead of the homecoming Tuesday of five Japanese who were kidnapped to the North in 1978.

sorce...
http://www.findarticles.com/cf_dls/m0WDQ/2002_Oct_21/94331645/p1/article.jhtml

though that sounds like propaganda to me it certainly speaks of casulties.

but i also agree that the status-quo has been working very well so why increase the tension and risk with threats of agression :shrug:

4. i disagree... i say that the japanese are pretty much the same they have always been just like US and the rest of us HUMANS.

though they may be even more easily whipped into group hysteria then we are - but that is certainly debateable - my point is that good people can and will do bad things when misled and afraid.

though today's militant america reminds me much more of imperial japan of wwII than modern japan does.

it certainly would take a lot of time for japan to get anywhere near as militant as civil society was back then but the proccess could CERTAINLY begin especially with Koizumi at the helm. though i believe he is mainly only doing what he is told we must rember that we are the only ones who out spend them militarily - 4,903.0 billion yen (45.8 billion US dollars) - and japans neighbors have not forgoton their former imperial neighbors who now appear to be willing to back militiristic imperial america by definately sending troops this year to iraq but potentially anywhere in the world if they adobt the 'bush doctrine' is PREVENTIVE WAR which they ALSO have a HISTORY of as well as ILLEGAL COMBATANTS.

the world has certainly changed a whole lot in 3 years short years hasn't it.

:scared:

kiyotsukete :hi:

peace