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Originally Posted by Tsuwabuki

Here is the Status of Forces Agreement. The treaty itself can also be found and provided, probably on the Ministry of Foreign Affairs website. It took exactly five seconds via google, and is a primary source.

This Treaty is about Cooperation between Forces, not about INVITATION. Further, the US Forces were deployed in Japan long before signing the Treaty. In previous post you wrote about invitation of Americans by Japanese people.

Originally Posted by Tsuwabuki

You provided a few newspaper articles which talk about the protests. You provided another with a poll that doesn't talk about its methodology. This is not enough to counter my personal experiences.

My sources depict opinions of relatively large group of people. Your experience is just your personal experience. See the difference?

Originally Posted by Tsuwabuki

The coverage at the peace museum was very balanced. It talked a lot about Hiroshima as a base. The same base that barracked the soldiers who were involved in the Rape of Nanking.

A few squads of soldiers in barrack still doesn't make the entire Hiroshima a military base. And such actions as Rape of Nanking were performed by Japanese Military, not civilians.

Originally Posted by Tsuwabuki

Wow. You need to go back and study history. You're missing about four years of history there. There are a lot of events, on both sides, that lead to the decision to drop those bombs. It was not a direct response to Pearl Harbor, and anyone who argues so is just trying to pick a fight.

Which events do you mean? Since the very beginning of War, Imperial Japanese Military Forces fought American Forces, not American civilians. They did not bomb American cities.
Americans dropped nuclear explosive devices on Hiroshima and Nagasaki for merely two reasons.
a. To test a nuclear weapon on humans
b. To demonstrate an American Military Might to Japan and Soviets.

Therefore, Japanese civilians, non-combatants were converted to lab animals by the American leadership.

Originally Posted by Tsuwabuki

It also ignores Japanese actions in Manchuria and China, which the Japanese themselves acknowledge. I can only conclude this is America-bashing for the sake of American-bashing.

America-bashing for the sake of American-bashing? No. By the way, one-million Imperial Army in Manchuria was defeated without use of nuclear weaponry.

Originally Posted by Tsuwabuki

*facepalm* Not politically, no. However, the Okinawan people are ethnically different than mainland Japanese. Since Japanese took control of the island chain, Okinawa has been oppressed, and during the war was badly abused. Even now, Okinawa is the poorest prefecture in Japan.

Anyway, from a political point of view Okinawa, poor or rich, is a part of Japan.

Originally Posted by Tsuwabuki

*You have made it your "job" to bring up these issues, and try to use them as a wedge issue against America.

So what? Are Americans beyond any criticism? Since when, could you tell?

Originally Posted by Tsuwabuki

you're just some Anti-America wacko on a forum that should be labeled a troll.

You know, were I American, I would complain to moderator about name calling.
When someone has no ability fo find valid counter-arguments, he usually turns to name calling. An axiom.

Originally Posted by Tsuwabuki

I still haven't heard you once say if you are even in Japan.

Once again, this is completely irrelevant to discussion.

Originally Posted by Tsuwabuki

are going to Okinawa to learn about the use of Okinawans as shields, and the use of Okinawan children, some of them elementary school age, as soldiers, sent out to meet the landing Americans. I'm still looking for it, since I read it in print, not online.

I also read about Japanese school children who were ready to encounter possible US invasion on mainland. It is normal and called Patriotism.