Reply #161: As a Japanese I have a thing to say

[hertopos]

As a Japanese, who is married to an American, I just want to say a thing or two.

I do not take any of the position listed in the original thread because I am Japanese.

Being a Japanese means to me:
I know what is really like to have a fear of nuclear holocaust.
I know what is really like to know that our parents�Egeneration supported the government which committed hideous atrocity and committed those atrocities themselves.

At the same time, I am proud to be Japanese in 2004 because we are still keeping our 'Peace constitution', which permanently abandon the right to engage any war. No matter what LDP may try, overwhelming majority of Japanese people support this. In fact, the latest move by Koizumi administration (sending our unconstitutional defense only force to Iraq) is unconstitutional.

I don't deny any of atrocity that Japanese imperial army committed during the war. However, that does not imply that Japanese are violent and evil people by nature compared to the people in the countries where Japanese committed the most hideous crimes in their own history. Unfortunately, many Korean and Chinese people believes that Japanese are more violent and evil than them mainly because the inept Japanese government post-war diplomacy and rather biased education about Japanese national character by both Korean and Chinese government.

I repeat. Japanese really learned something from the war. Though American government was the one which originally forced peace constitution�Eon Japanese, we are the ones keeping it even after U.S. wanted us to have our unconstitutional defense only force.

I would accept the fact that many American feels those bombing was right thing to do then. My point is not criticizing the historic decision. What I am asking is that after knowing what is really like to be bombed by a nuclear bomb, will you support the use of nuclear weapon in future?

Pray, do not use same type of logic to justify the use of nuclear weapon in future. That will be no different from Panac and Bush administration.

Hertopos