Japan Unveils Biggest Warship Since WWII

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130. History

History might dispute that. After defeating China in 1895 (taking Korea as a prize) and Russia in 1905 Japan was the aggressor in Manchuria and later other parts of China leading up to the U.S. embargo and Pearl Harbor and all that followed, including the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Throughout much of the Meiji, Taisho and Showa eras Japan was at war, usually as the aggressor.

Contrast that with the past 68 years since WWII. 68 years of peace.

However today many born after the war are ignorant of both war itself and the history of that war. PM Shintaro Abe is such a man, a vapid, spoiled, rich politician's son, not unlike a George Bush

I've lived in Japan over 30 years and the recent moves to either amend and rewrite its anti-war constitution or rewrite the rules for making amendments first are not the actions of a country that recalls its history or has an idea of what war is about.

In Japan today too many are not educated in the background behind the atomic bombings. Tuesday (8/6) and this Friday (8/9) are treated as memorials to days when suddenly the U.S. dropped the bomb on an innocent people.

The debate as to whether the bombs should have been dropped or not will continue. I cannot condone that action, but neither can I condone almost all actions taken in war, large or small.

The symbolism behind this launch date is obvious and evident. The reasoning behind that symbolism is not reasoned or reasonable.