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Lovie777
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No. I went to it in Dongbei here in China, as well as worked at the Nanjing Massacre Memorial Hall
AZLD4Candidate
Aug 2023
#12
So that makes it right? You are dismissing 30 million Chinese murdered by Japan?
AZLD4Candidate
Aug 2023
#21
Now that the red herring is stated, what should China do about the Japanese invasion?
AZLD4Candidate
Aug 2023
#26
By all means, declare war on Japan until you feel they've been punished enough in your mind.
Coventina
Aug 2023
#28
To answer you question: Yes, she would be. It's a different culture and mindset between China
AZLD4Candidate
Aug 2023
#52
Your ethnocentrism is showing. You're talking down another culture because it isn't American.
AZLD4Candidate
Aug 2023
#59
Today I discovered an American suggesting Japan build nuclear weapons. Cause, you know, China!
Alexander Of Assyria
Aug 2023
#2
Mythical thinking. Many nations don't have a nuclear monster on a chain watching over the yard.
Alexander Of Assyria
Aug 2023
#8
My wife's great-grandmother was gang raped by the Japanese Imperial Army as they marched
AZLD4Candidate
Aug 2023
#6
What did Shanghai did when Japan bombed it in 1933? What did China do when Japan sabotaged
AZLD4Candidate
Aug 2023
#16
I'm sure George's personal history has something to do with his take on the subject.
Coventina
Aug 2023
#18
My wife hates Japan with every fibre of her being. You can understand why.
AZLD4Candidate
Aug 2023
#20
Yes, I get it. But at the same time, in order to live together peacefully going forward,
Coventina
Aug 2023
#23
Japan denies they used rape as a weapon of war, denies the rape of nanking, denies unit 731, and
AZLD4Candidate
Aug 2023
#25
Simply being against the use of nuclear weapons does NOT make him an apologist
Coventina
Aug 2023
#48
When he posts about other Asian nations being brutalized, I'll change my tune.
AZLD4Candidate
Aug 2023
#53
As you have seen here, Japanese lives are valued more highly than other Asian countries. nt
LexVegas
Aug 2023
#55
Well, especially in the US. My wife's life was so worthless in the US, her country's people were
AZLD4Candidate
Aug 2023
#58
AZ, my husband worked with a German his own age here in the US. He did not carry hatred forward...
Hekate
Aug 2023
#81
I've said that to her many times. You can't blame today's Japanese for the sins of their grands
AZLD4Candidate
Aug 2023
#82
I will say it again. . .Japan is awfully quiet about all the murder they did in Asian countries
AZLD4Candidate
Aug 2023
#15
That's because of the Cold War. The US gave them passes, Chiang Kai Shek did the same
AZLD4Candidate
Aug 2023
#41
Unfortunately, doing my PhD dissertation on this topic, those civilians cheered when Japan
AZLD4Candidate
Aug 2023
#56
I won't say that, but he seems to be silent about Japanese war crimes, rape, genocide, human
AZLD4Candidate
Aug 2023
#22
George Takei is an American by birth, a Nisei who was interned at the age of 6 in an American...
Hekate
Aug 2023
#30
It's worse than embarrassing. The ignorance on display on all sides is too much this year...
Hekate
Aug 2023
#63
My wife's great-grandmother was gang raped by the Japanese Imperial Army as they marched
AZLD4Candidate
Aug 2023
#34
That's why I am attacking his Tweet. It sounds like a Japan apologist looking for sympathy
AZLD4Candidate
Aug 2023
#60
War itself is wrong. I don't blame my country (America) for trying to end WWII, even this way...
Hekate
Aug 2023
#70
This I agree with. I try to hold balance if I can, but never false equivalence. We, our country,have
Hekate
Aug 2023
#78
'At Least During the Internment ...' Are Words I Thought I'd Never Utter
stuck in the middle
Aug 2023
#33
I too grew up hearing about the War. My dad's father went off to fight in his early 40s.
applegrove
Aug 2023
#77