What Japan thinks of Americans

[dammitgriff]

I remember that...I should have qualified my earlier statement:
Zero attacks since 9/11.

[tector]

That Sarin attack was from internal nuts, much like Oklahoma City was here. What they don't have is deranged Muslims being allowed in to make mayhem--like has happened all across Europe and of course on 9/11 here.

[Skoll]

From everything I read, there's not much reason they shouldn't have caught the 9/11 guys. Not trying to go all Loose Change conspiracy theorist, but the information was there, much like Parkland.

That's a discussion for somewhere else though. You two are right about Japan's stringent immigration policies.

[Firemedic2000]

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

I agree, I just told my wife the other day I'd like to visit Japan because of what you said. That and all the documentaries I've watched. But I can't get here to leave the Continental UNITED STATES. LOL

Now I have a friend visiting South Africa right this minute. I told him he was nuts for going there at this moment in time. Told him white and SA don't mix well right now. I'd call him and tell him again. But he was robbed and his phone was stolen.

[Firemedic2000]

I may be wrong but I believe, I can't remember right now. But AMERICA really started FOREIGN interventions because of piracy against AMERICAN ships and CITIZENS being taken hostage for ransom.

But it's like I've always said. Mankind has been making the same mistakes since theyve6been in existence. Man has fought over power, land, resources, women at one point.

My point is you'd think after hundreds of thousands of years. Man would have changed/learned.

Man's learned alright, how to kill each other more efficiently. Which is truely sad.

You can't blame guns or anything else. It's plain and simply man. Trying to blame inanimate objects is stupid. Trying to disarm people like the DEMOCRATIC SOCIALIST EXTREMISTS PARTY as history has shown is nothing more than a plan to dominate, rule others once you've taken away their way to resist.

History repeats it's self. Man uses history. Nothings new. Rulers promise the world then take your world away ince in power. Just like the DEMOCRATIC SOCIALIST EXTREMISTS PARTY.

There are always fools that will believe and follow and give up their freedom.

But back on track

I believe it was Tripoli by the UNITED STATES and Mercenaries.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Derna_(1805)

But this is a complete list of all invasions by every country. Just look for AMERICA

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_invasions

[SteyrAUG]

75 years of foreign occupation by your conquerers does tend to wear on the nerves of a nation’s people.
Imagine if the roles were reversed.

Well if we attacked the Japanese without warning, committed atrocities on their soldiers and citizens such as the Battan Death March, engaged in biological and chemical experiments that even the SS would have considered barbaric, including vivisection (look it up) of children to watch real time results of experiments that are the definition of pure evil and then the Japanese showed their united displeasure with our war of racial ideology and conquest with two atomic weapons then yeah, you kind of have a point.

But since that didn't happen, the Japanese need to realize we not only spared them from oblivion but nuking them is the only thing that prevented Stalin from invading in the north and condemning them to a partitioned country for half a century or so. And it sucks that we kind of have to babysit them, we certainly have better things to do, but every now and then some Yukio Mishima type comes along to try and rally the troops and start a ruckus.

We didn't quite get a true unconditional surrender from the Japanese so that they could keep their Emperor, we even had to participate in the outlandish lie that he was not tied to Japan's war crimes, so yeah they need to see a military presence to remind them we actually won the war.

[SteyrAUG]

That’s exactly how psychopathically schizophrenic and pathologically immoral Washington, D.C. views our relationship with Japan and the rest of the world....
We are literally and morally bankrupt, and the global empire we’ve built is now experiencing a rapid decline. Much economic pain and misery is coming to the United States and we will have no one to blame but ourselves for our self-proclaimed exceptionalism and hyper-diversity.
We’re exporting democracy all over the world but it seems no one is buying it any more...

If we are an Empire, name a colony. I wish we were an Empire, but it's not true.

[SteyrAUG]

I remember that...I should have qualified my earlier statement:
Zero attacks since 9/11.

Probably has more to do with Japan not have a specific policy of supporting Israel as well as the Japanese having a mostly homogeneous that won't tolerate a muslim culture, much less an entrenched muslim culture.

[P5 Guy]

If we are an Empire, name a colony. I wish we were an Empire, but it's not true.

Do 'Protectorates' count as colonial possessions? Or are they just overseas military bases?
Personally I would like to see all of the 'Protectorates' from PuertoRico to Guam given their freedom. Not ever going to happen, but...?

[SteyrAUG]

If we are an Empire, name a colony. I wish we were an Empire, but it's not true.

Do 'Protectorates' count as colonial possessions? Or are they just overseas military bases?
Personally I would like to see all of the 'Protectorates' from PuertoRico to Guam given their freedom. Not ever going to happen, but...?

Are they paying tribute? If not, then doesn't count, not a colony.

But with respect to Puerto Rico it is a US territory. How did that happen you might wonder? Well for a long, long time it was a colony of Spain and a tribute state, then when Spain LOST the Spanish-American war it was ceded to the US as part of the Treaty of Paris, as were a few other things people believe the US simply stole.

But here is a clue, if the people are speaking Spanish, typically those are the people who originally conquered the land in question before it was given to the US as a concession for losing the Spanish American war. And unlike Spain, those territories didn't simply become part of the American Empire and a tribute state, some became US territories and some became part of the US as one of the states of the United States.

But they kind of gloss over these facts in history class and few people seem to understand the large distinction between "superpower" and "empire." Spain for example, was an empire. It was known as the Spanish Empire and it had colonies which functioned as tribute states. Pretty sure the people of Puerto Rico feel fortunate that they are no longer a colony of the Spanish Empire paying tribute to Spain.

As a former colony of the British Empire, some Americans understood how they felt and that is why we never really claimed and kept colonies, even in lands won by blood against a powerful enemy.