8/15/2005

Was the Evil Japan really dead 60 years ago?!

— nSigma @ 8:09 pm


60 years ago -Japan signing surrender (photo source: web)


60 years ago, Hiroshima Abomb (photo source: web)


Today, Japanese congressmen visiting Yasukuni Shrine (photo source: web)


Today, young Japanese dressed in WWII army uniform (photo source: web)

Today is V-J Day. 60 years ago today, Japan surrendered to Allied Forces after its cities Hiroshima and Nagasaki were devastated by two atomic bombs. Today, about 250 thousand Japanese including about 50 congressmen went to pay their tribute to Japan’s war criminals at Yasukuni Shrine (靖国神社). In addition, many young generations dressed up in Japan’s WWII military uniforms and marched on the streets to display their pride and literally brought back the scenes that had horrified millions of people in Asia and around the world in the past (can anyone imagine young Germen dressing in Nazi uniforms marching in Berlin today?) Well, the situation doesn’t look promising, and I simply do not trust Japan as a nation. Was the evil in this country really eradicated 60 years ago, or the surrender was just something that had to do to buy them more time? For those of you, I beg you not to bring the democracy argument into this topic –democracy is only internal to a nation and if the majority of the nation wanted to be an evil, willingly or unwillingly, it would be at best a democratic evil!

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5/15/2005

Double Standard?

— nSigma @ 11:03 pm

This article echoes Fon’s reflection.I don’t really know what’s happening in Uzbekistan, but some journalists (mainly the westerners) already got very excited to the high estimated death toll and couldn’t wait to call it another “state-inspired bloodshed” that compares to the 1989 Tiananmen Square Massacre.Somehow I always resent the 1989 incident in Beijing being widely […]

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5/9/2005

Time to Reconcile? Probably Not So Fast… (重归于好？可能为时尚早)

— nSigma @ 10:12 pm

Li, Zhaoxing (left) shaking hands with Nobutake Machimura (right) (Photo: Web)

Meet the Fockers: Bernie Focker kissing Jack Byrnes (Photo: Web)

China’s Foreign Minister Li, Zhaoxing (李肇星) (left) met with his Japanese counterpart Nobutake Machimura (町村信孝) (right) at the 7th Asian European Foreign Minister Summit in Kyoto on 5/7/05. I don’t know whether they were there to make up or to kick each other’ butt again, but look at the picture: were they really shaking hands or bending wrists? Their smiles were so hesitant, and what the hell was the guy in glasses doing in the back?!

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