What Japan thinks of Americans

[Greg]

Ill go off my actual time spent there over those useless links but thanks

[Firemedic2000]

No one has said Japan is a bad place. I think you are not understanding the whole picture. Everyone has an opinion and to insinuate yours is the only correct one because you were there is wrong.

My nephew stationed in the islands said the Japanese were extremely rude people and dishonored America's war memorials. Treated them as shrines for Japanese victories.

Yet your experiences as a whole in Japan may have been with people who could care less about such things and embraced the western culture more.

The Japanese were a viscous brutal people during WW2 and mass murdered many Americans. Of coarse even now for those that study history there will be some animosity towards them. Please do not try to say Americans were just as bad. We did not hold a candle to them.

But it's the media's perception of Americans that it instills on the Japanese people just as before that gives them these beliefs. Japan today is a Allie of AMERICA.

I do not believe it is the same Japan of old. To much time and exposure to the outside world has happened. But they will feel superior to us as long as they are lead to believe they are by the NEWS MEDIA lies.

It's like that congressman said today on national NEWS. That baically most all of Americans that lives in America's inward states wishes they could be like the 20% that lives in places like New York, California, New Jersey ect.....that the Americans that live in the middle states are stupid.

You are stupid, everyone here is stupid and I'm stupid. Because were not a DEMOCRAT and live in middle America, conservative and voted for Trump. We don't earn as much money as them. Did not go to the same schools ect.... therefore we could not be as smart as them.

That just blew me away to hear an elected official say that about AMERICAN CITIZENS of coarse it kinda doesn't considering he's part of the new DEMOCRATIC SOCIALIST EXTREMISTS PARTY

[dammitgriff]

Ill go off my actual time spent there over those useless links but thanks

If our country’s politicians had adhered to the Constitution as written, you would never have been in Japan in the first place.
In fact, there is zero Constitutional authority to have established military bases in any country outside the United States or its territories.

[P5 Guy]

Ill go off my actual time spent there over those useless links but thanks

If our country’s politicians had adhered to the Constitution as written, you would never have been in Japan in the first place.
In fact, there is zero Constitutional authority to have established military bases in any country outside the United States or its territories.

I never got why US government took up the "Cops of the World" job back in 1899 when the Maine blew.

[jaytwillerham]

I never got why US government took up the "Cops of the World" job back in 1899 when the Maine blew.

It's because somewhere along the way it was decided that the US should become an Empire instead of a Republic.
Too bad those who thought that way didn't understand why empires fail.

[Greg]

My comments have been taken in the wrong context.

I despise the atrocities the japs committed in WW2. Especially Unit 731 and how after the war they were all let off the hook.

Our overall relationship w Japan though since the war has been prosperous for both countries which is smart

[Greg]

Kadena Air Base though isn’t going anywhere anytime soon though especially w the Chinese buildup of weapons and material in their newly created artificial island

I also have the same sense of hatred of letting Unit 731 off the hook as the Catholic Priests who helped to smuggle out the Nazis’s post war to Argentina

Letting Hirohito off the hook was a mistake as well. Hitler shot himself and Mussolini was hung by his own people. Yet the Japanese Emperor was let off the hook. That I blame solely on MacArthur

To this day Abe still visits War Memorials to Japanese Generals who committed wartime atrocities

And if we really wanted to change the world back then holding the Communists back from taking over China would’ve been a good start
But since we didn’t were allied now w Japan

Strategically it’s smart to stay allied w Japan as well. War w N Korea they’ll let us use their islands as staging points and air bases. China won’t be able to trick us again like in Korea so it keeps them at a good distance for us as well. S Korea would be a wash. We’d have to set up bases in the phillipnes to better defend it but if done properly most of the pacific would belong to us

But what would one of General Mattis’s Marines know anyways ‍♂️

[dammitgriff]

I’ve read and studied the atrocious Japanese Rape of Nanking and I have seen the war photos of the Japanese beheading American soldiers. Theirs was a retribution of fire, and the common Japanese people paid a devastating price.
Shutting out other cultures is a survival technique for the Japanese. There have been as many as zero terrorist attacks in Japan, whether from their stringent immigration policy or their non-interventionist foreign policy, I cannot tell, but it seems to work. It may be short-lived, however; the government is ramping up their military spending and training.

[Skoll]

I’ve read and studied the atrocious Japanese Rape of Nanking and I have seen the war photos of the Japanese beheading American soldiers. Theirs was a retribution of fire, and the common Japanese people paid a devastating price.
Shutting out other cultures is a survival technique for the Japanese. There have been as many as zero terrorist attacks in Japan, whether from their stringent immigration policy or their non-interventionist foreign policy, I cannot tell, but it seems to work. It may be short-lived, however; the government is ramping up their military spending and training.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokyo_subway_sarin_attack

[dammitgriff]

I remember that...
Zero attacks since 9/11.