Would you give Japan its military back?

[RickOShay]

Originally Posted by termogard

Sounds like a nonsense.

And what gives you special knowledge to know anything about how the WW2 generation of Japan feels?

It sounds like a you just disagree with no basis.

[Ryzorian]

Actually the children born in the era when Macarthur was in charge are called Macarthur's generation. He ran Japan almost like a shogunate for 6 years.

[HOURAISAN]

Originally Posted by Ryzorian

Actually the children born in the era when Macarthur was in charge are called Macarthur's generation. He ran Japan almost like a shogunate for 6 years.

/me imagines a white guy with a corncob pipe dressed up like Tokugawa Ieyasu

Awesome XD

[Ryzorian]

Well I used that image cause I didn't think "Occupation Tzar" fit.

[termogard]

Originally Posted by RickOShay

And what gives you special knowledge to know anything about how the WW2 generation of Japan feels?

It sounds like a you just disagree with no basis.

Oh, yeah. They were grateful to Americans for nuclear bombings, in particular.

[Ryzorian]

Term; Frankly I don't care if they liked it or not, it ended the war and for the US that's all that mattered. Historically, the US occupation of Japan help create one of the largest, most modern economies in the world.
Plus, they have the worlds best military protecting them for a fraction of the cost to maintain thier own army. So in some ways, they do pretty good.

[termogard]

Originally Posted by Ryzorian

Term; Frankly I don't care if they liked it or not, it ended the war and for the US that's all that mattered. Historically, the US occupation of Japan help create one of the largest, most modern economies in the world.
Plus, they have the worlds best military protecting them for a fraction of the cost to maintain thier own army. So in some ways, they do pretty good.

Ryzorian, I see your viewpoint. Indeed, that's a right of a winner of war.
I disagree with a statement of other member of this forum concerning to warm feelings of "gratefull old japanese generations".

[JohnBraden]

Originally Posted by termogard

Ryzorian, I see your viewpoint. Indeed, that's a right of a winner of war.
I disagree with a statement of other member of this forum concerning to warm feelings of "gratefull old japanese generations".

Perhaps the people were grateful because the occupying forces treated them in a manner unlike they were lead to believe they would. They may have been warned the Americans would kill everyone and spare nobody as a fear mechanism to fight until the end. It did happen in Okinawa, where civilians jumped to their deaths instead of becoming prisoners.

I'm quite certain the occupying forces weren't unkind to the local populace. And maybe they could even have grown fond of them, seeing as their own families were thousands of miles away in the states. It did happen to my mother and her sisters when the Japanese occupied their home in the Philippines. The Japanese officer, a colonel I think, who had appropriated my grandparents' home was fond of the girls since he had a few of his own in Japan and was missing them. He even had them learn "Sakura Sakura" so they could sing to him on occasion....

[dogsbody70]

May I recommend reading Embracing Defeat" by John Dower who explores deeply into the follow up to the war and its aftermath. It truly is an enlightening read.

[Ryzorian]

Everything is going to be seen through the lense of that person's perspective. I do it, everyone does it. The real truth is seldom how anyone thinks it to be. I think American soldiers behave better and more honerably than perhaps they have, while others believe American soldiers to have been more cruel and disrespectful than they probably were.