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2007-03-23 China-Japan-Koreas
Japanese minister says yellow faces more trusted than blue eyes
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Posted by ryuge 2007-03-23 01:21|| || Front Page|| [11127 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 Every village has its idiot.
Posted by twobyfour 2007-03-23 01:35||   2007-03-23 01:35|| Front Page Top

#2 I blame a GAIKO FORUM [Foreign Affairs] article - JAPAN's relationship wid China + Russia likely to get closer due to importance of AMUR RIVER to regional history, ethnic-specific organized dev, and espc contemporary Regional biomass [read - fishing]. Also other articles calling for closer collusion between Japan and nations of Asia, including but not limited alongst racial/ethnic lines.
Posted by JosephMendiola 2007-03-23 01:40||   2007-03-23 01:40|| Front Page Top

#3 The Japanese are looked upon as tame and mild now, but that's only because America tamed them. Before and during WWII, they committed unspeakable acts of barbarism, mass murder and institutional cruelty. Only the nukes made them decide to change their approach. Ask the descendants of MILLIONS of Chinese who were imprisoned, tortured, raped, beaten or slaughtered by the Japanese whether or not they "trust" them. Ask the few remaining survivors of the Bataan death march. Just do a quick search on 'Japanese war atrocities' and see how many hits you get.

"Never been involved in fights or fired machine guns"? What planet have you been on, Mr. Aso?
Posted by mcsegeek1 2007-03-23 01:49||   2007-03-23 01:49|| Front Page Top

#4 To be fair, Aso was referring to the Middle East.

But it's somewhat frightening that a guy that praises Japan's occupation of Korea could be their next prime minister.
Posted by Mizzou Mafia 2007-03-23 02:17||   2007-03-23 02:17|| Front Page Top

#5 Anyone looking to push the sale of F-22's to Japan needs to understand that yellow solidarity is a big thing in Asia. Koreans, Taiwanese, Singaporeans and Japanese are all susceptible. Note that Asian military men are probably also more susceptible to Chinese honey traps than the average white-bread USAF officer. With respect to Chinese espionage efforts, we have chinks in our armor - they have huge gaping holes.
Posted by Zhang Fei 2007-03-23 02:26|| http://timurileng.blogspot.com]">[http://timurileng.blogspot.com]  2007-03-23 02:26|| Front Page Top

#6 From some one with "Blue Eyes", FOAD, Mr. Assho.
Posted by Zenster">Zenster  2007-03-23 02:43||   2007-03-23 02:43|| Front Page Top

#7 "we have chinks in our armor "

Zhang Fei, I truly respect you (our emails should prove that), but this particular "crack" cannot escape my notice, please forgive.
Posted by Zenster">Zenster  2007-03-23 02:52||   2007-03-23 02:52|| Front Page Top

#8 It is a commonly-held racist belief among Japanese that all Americans are blond-haired and blue-eyed. Nothing could be farther from the truth.

And as far as the Japanese being trusted throughout Asia...Ha! The only thing all of Asia agrees on is that they all hate the Japanese.
Posted by gromky 2007-03-23 04:28||   2007-03-23 04:28|| Front Page Top

#9 Japanese minister says yellow faces eyes more trusted than blue eyes

fixed it.

Note that Asian military men are probably also more susceptible to Chinese honey traps than the average white-bread USAF officer. With respect to Chinese espionage efforts, we have chinks in our armor - they have huge gaping holes.

and in our top secrete secretes.

thanks for that Laff Zhang Fei!
Posted by RD 2007-03-23 07:36||   2007-03-23 07:36|| Front Page Top

#10 Trusted throughout Asia? In Korea and the Phillipines, the most respected daily papers still routinely call them "Japs." It is really true that East Asian cultures tend to have long memories. To an American, 70 years is an eternity, the 30s might as well be the mythical time of dragons. To a Chinese, it is like last week even if they can't remember it personally. It will be millenia before the Japanese are really trusted elsewhere in Asia.
Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2007-03-23 08:01||   2007-03-23 08:01|| Front Page Top

#11 Asia for asians thing still runs strong.
Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader  2007-03-23 08:24||   2007-03-23 08:24|| Front Page Top

#12 well, how about we just pull out and yall send your lil police force army over and take care of the problem instead of having ppl build roads that go no where. oh and don;t worry about NK or china while they are in iraq ok
Posted by sinse 2007-03-23 08:32||   2007-03-23 08:32|| Front Page Top

#13 The Koreans still absolutely hate the Japs and make no bones about it. I can see why, too. As long as the Japs continue to deny and evade their guilt in atrocities that were as bad as anything this side of Genghis Khan, no one who experienced their horrific brutality is going to trust them any farther than they can throw Japan.
If the Japs were half as smart as they think they are they'd tear Yakusuni down.
Posted by Mac 2007-03-23 08:38||   2007-03-23 08:38|| Front Page Top

#14 Some things never change.
Posted by mrp 2007-03-23 09:31||   2007-03-23 09:31|| Front Page Top

#15 Japan isn't the same Japan today that it was in 1941, but people in that part of the world have long memories, and Chinese nationalism (in particular) is quite sensitive.* The fittingly-named Mr. Aso probably undid five years of goodwill in the space of a paragraph or two.

*This is not unique to Asia. My Scots relatives on Mom's side of the family still hold a grudge over the defeat of the Jacobites at Culloden in 1746.
Posted by Mike 2007-03-23 09:33||   2007-03-23 09:33|| Front Page Top

#16 Why is it that every piece of shit who conned its countrymen into electing it politician in the world wants to come to ME and impose Arab "Peace" on Israel?
Posted by gromgoru 2007-03-23 10:05||   2007-03-23 10:05|| Front Page Top

#17 Mike: Funny thing that. My relatives and I all still get a warm glow when we think of Culloden.
Posted by Excalibur 2007-03-23 10:09||   2007-03-23 10:09|| Front Page Top

#18 "It is a commonly-held racist belief among Japanese that all Americans are blond-haired and blue-eyed."

Other than the super smart Jews who run the economy, of course ;)

Japan as a society and nation is still so much more aimed the right way, I think its worth tolerating the occasional outburst of cuckooness.

Posted by liberalhawk 2007-03-23 10:18||   2007-03-23 10:18|| Front Page Top

#19 Anyone looking to push the sale of F-22's to Japan needs to understand that yellow solidarity is a big thing in Asia.

That's why we kept hundreds of thousands of troops and spent trillions of dollars in defense of Western Europe for over 50 years. Imagine what a Marshall Plan with that amount of resources could have done in the Western Hemisphere through out Central and South America, instead of being expended in 'white solidarity'.
Posted by Procopius2k 2007-03-23 10:54||   2007-03-23 10:54|| Front Page Top

#20 Excalibur: You think that's bad, you should talk to the Irish side of the family.
Posted by Mike 2007-03-23 11:16||   2007-03-23 11:16|| Front Page Top

#21 He said it badly and he's probably a jerk but there is some truth to what he says. Japan never had any direct involvement in the middle east. They have a clean slate we could never hope for. Same goes for China in Africa.

And the reverse is true with the blue eyes thing. Does anyone here doubt that westerners often take the word of other western nations at a higher level than they do the words of Easterners? We try to be impartial but there are certain simialarities in culture that make us feel closer and thus more trusting. Often when we shouldn't be (as in the case of France and Putin's Russia).
Posted by rjschwarz 2007-03-23 11:26||   2007-03-23 11:26|| Front Page Top

#22 Keith Ellison or Murtha moved to Japan, who knew.

Guess eating all that raw fish kills off brain cells. By the way when is the last time any Japanese actually invented rather than ripped off?

Sure they can improve on anything but if memory serves me right the Japs were one of the last modern nations to utilize the freaking wheel.
Posted by Icerigger">Icerigger  2007-03-23 13:18||   2007-03-23 13:18|| Front Page Top

#23 "By the way when is the last time any Japanese actually invented rather than ripped off?"

er, high definition DVDs?

Posted by liberalhawk 2007-03-23 13:49||   2007-03-23 13:49|| Front Page Top

#24 Digital Audio Tape DAT was also invented by the Japanese and I think a lot of the hybrid car tech is coming out of Japan. Also, Toshiba (curse their name) may have invented a quick charge massive storage battery.

You can claim all of this is incremental increases but it's all pretty big, pretty important stuff.
Posted by rjschwarz 2007-03-23 14:25||   2007-03-23 14:25|| Front Page Top

#25 Tightly alignied night-fighting tactics?
Posted by Shipman">Shipman  2007-03-23 14:28||   2007-03-23 14:28|| Front Page Top

#26 Carrrier combined Ops?
Posted by Shipman">Shipman  2007-03-23 14:28||   2007-03-23 14:28|| Front Page Top

#27 Zenster: "From some one with "Blue Eyes", FOAD, Mr. Assho."

I don't have blue eyes or blond hair but (kinda)yellow(?) face and dark brown eyes. All the same I agree with your reply, hahaha!

FMs tends to be a very stupid lot, e.g,....from Britain....Malaysia, to Japan!
Posted by Duh! 2007-03-23 14:33||   2007-03-23 14:33|| Front Page Top

#28 The imams warn against trusting anyone without black eyes, so maybe using the Japanese in negotiations in the ME is a great strategy. History aside, they have been very good allies in Asia.
Posted by Danielle 2007-03-23 14:48||   2007-03-23 14:48|| Front Page Top

#29 Dripping with racism.
Posted by wxjames 2007-03-23 15:21||   2007-03-23 15:21|| Front Page Top

#30 Please. The Japanese are the most racist bastards on the face of the earth, always have been.

They make good electronics, though.
Posted by mojo">mojo  2007-03-23 15:28||   2007-03-23 15:28|| Front Page Top

#31 Amen.
Posted by Howard UK 2007-03-23 15:32||   2007-03-23 15:32|| Front Page Top

#32 High definition DVDs, DAT tape. Still just improvements. Putting polish on a paint job doesn't make the waxer the inventor of the automobile. Japan's creative side is almost nonexistent at best.

A lot is to be said for their culture. Like being stupid enough to pay $30,000 for one freaking tuna because it's fins look pretty. Keeping in mind it is an island but they haven't let their nation get overly contaminated by other peoples. Something we could take a lesson from. I dont' recall CAIR opening an office there.

PS: Taro Aso is famous for being a Rozen Maiden fan and has been nicknamed "Rozen Aso". The little peckerhead is a children's cartoon fan. Like 50% of the rest of the population.

He also called for the emperor to visit the controversial Yasukuni shrine (burial site of some of Japan's war criminals). He later backtracked on the comment, but stated that he hoped such a visit would be possible in the future.

Taro Asoholeious, Latin: Hymdickweedious.
Posted by Icerigger">Icerigger  2007-03-23 16:47||   2007-03-23 16:47|| Front Page Top

#33 By the way when is the last time any Japanese actually invented rather than ripped off?

Sorry, Ice, incremental or not, the Japanese come out with some pretty inventive designs. Their ability to enhance existing concepts with "feature rich" add ons is unsurpassed. Fear not, I truly resent their predatory enterprise model, especially with respect to foreign trade but you'd have to pry my old Nikons out of my cold dead hands.
Posted by Zenster">Zenster  2007-03-23 16:52||   2007-03-23 16:52|| Front Page Top

#34  had "never been involved in exploitation there, or been involved in fights or fired machine guns".

Born after WW2 And Failed History, Did you?
Posted by Redneck Jim 2007-03-23 16:54||   2007-03-23 16:54|| Front Page Top

#35 "never been involved in exploitation there, or been involved in fights or fired machine guns".

Yep, it's true, but it's not for lack of trying. The Brits stopped you at the eastern border of India and we stopped you at Coral Sea and Midway. Otherwise you damned well would have been "involved in exploitation there, or and been involved in fights or and fired machine guns," and the people there would hate you as much as your fellow Asians do.
Posted by Mac 2007-03-23 17:28||   2007-03-23 17:28|| Front Page Top

#36 "Carrrier combined Ops" Were first practiced by the British at the battle of Taranto where biplanes blasted a section of the French Fleet because the French were unclear if the ships would join the Nazi's or not. The Japanese studied the attack while the Americans were still arguing the benefits of battleships vs carriers.
Posted by rjschwarz 2007-03-23 19:10|| rjschwarz.com]">[rjschwarz.com]  2007-03-23 19:10|| Front Page Top

#37 Taranto where biplanes blasted a section of the French Fleet

I think you mean Italian navy.... The combined fleet had operated off China for 5 years before Taranto.
Posted by Shipman">Shipman  2007-03-23 20:49||   2007-03-23 20:49|| Front Page Top

#38 The IJN did indeed study the attack tho, especially the use of torpedos in shallow water.
Posted by Shipman">Shipman  2007-03-23 20:51||   2007-03-23 20:51|| Front Page Top

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