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Smee · Joined: 24 Dec 2004 Location: Jeollanam-do

Another day, another complaint about historical distortion. Somebody needs to call a wahmbulance.

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Guri Guy · Joined: 07 Sep 2003 Location: Bamboo Island

True enough. China, Korea and Japan are all guilty of it. China with their Northeast Asia project, Japan with soem aspects of their recent past and Korea with several things, most notably Dokdo.

They are all guilty of distorting history. Sad

Tiberious aka Sparkles · Joined: 23 Jan 2003 Location: I'm one cool cat!

lastat06513 · Posted: Thu Oct 05, 2006 7:37 pm Post subject:

There is a show called "Unsolved History" on the Discovery-Times Channel (In the states) that has allegedly solved several disputed events in History.

Some of them are;

1. The Canadian pilot famed for shooting down the infamous Red Baron in France during the final days of WWI. It was discovered to be an unknown Australian trooper.

2. The famed frontiersman, Davie Crocket, was not killed at the Alamo. Instead, he was captured by the Mexicans and executed on the command of Santa Anna himself.

I think any person who goes around Korea and looks at the remains of its past and compare them to pieces of the past of Korea's nieghbors, you can see a very samiliar picture forming.

I wrote a thread about these familiarities, proving that Korea a mere "vassel state" or in other words, "an independent province" of China.

miguel · Joined: 05 Sep 2006

I understand that Japan has whitewashed the atrocities commited during their occupations and wars, and they need to be more honest with themselves and their neighbours. However I still fail to see why their leadership is not allowed to visit a war shrine. The Allies commited horrible atrocities during WWII. The firebombing of Tokyo killed more people than hte nuclear bombs, and the fire bombing of Dresden killed thousands and was even more pointless because the was was essentially over. But our leadership still exalts our great victory over the Axis powers.
Just because they lost the war does not mean that the soldiers who died do not deserve some level of national respect. I know that the Japanese did terrible things and they need to acknowledge that, but the majority of soldiers were only following orders, and their bravery in defending what they believed to be their national interest deserves to be recognized. Bravery and inhumanity exist on both sides of a battle line.

riley · Joined: 08 Feb 2003 Location: where creditors can find me

The ones at the Yasukuni (sp?) war shrine weren't just the common, ordinary grunts, they were the leaders who oversaw such events as attacking China, mistreating POWs, Nanking Massacre, murders of civilians, biological warfare tests on civilians, etc.
Now, while you could make an argument that the Allied leaders were also guilty of murdering civilians (ie, mass bombing of cities) they had not violated any rules of the time period. (Don't ask me about the current generation of leaders) They had not done the same events, nor with the same disregard.
To visit the Yasukuni Shrine comes across as a slap in the face to those who suffered the worst in the war and were the biggest victims of Japanese agression. It would be similar to having a president go to the graves of Nazi leaders or SS soldiers. (Wait, one president did do that)