(Indeed Saitama Prefecture, but not its southern neighbor Tokyo Prefecture)
Good Samurai and Bad Samurai during WWII
What if all the U.S. defense forces leave East Asia is the most critical agenda for Japan, Taiwan, South Korea, North Korea, and China in addition to Russia.
The Liberal Democratic Party of Japan has observed the relationships reasonably expected between Japan and the U.S. after WWII (which Japanese businesses have so welcomed).
Under the cover of the LDP, other Japanese controversial political-movements concerning the defense in East Asia have been hidden from the eyes of American citizens and a majority of Congress members.
But now, this LDP umbrella has gone as the DPJ takes over, so that Americans who once felt that even the LDP was somehow anti-America are going to see a real anti-America-party-associated regime in Japan.
That is why I recommend the Social Democratic Party of Japan not to send a minister into coming Mr. Yukio Hatoyama's Cabinet, since the SDP has reportedly a strong undercover tie with North Korea who seems, even today, to implicitly or explicitly request the SDP to be anti-America in exchange of some kind of support.
Japanese laborers and workers are not foolish at all, so that they overwhelmingly support Mr. Y. Hatoyama's DPJ (with many pro-America lawmakers) but not the SDP.
Japanese laborers and workers do not need to be anti-America at all, while the SDP praises N Korea partly because N Korea never ceases to blame past militarism of the Empire of Japan during WWII.
New Prime Minister Mr. Y. Hatoyama of the DPJ must draw a distinction between anti-Wall Street sentiments among Japanese workers and N Korea-backed anti-America sentiments.
This situation tells, however, that some Japanese lawmakers do not study why the Imperial military carried out some grave cruelty in East Asia during WWII. They simply considered that leaders and generals of the Empire of Japan were born bad, mean, and devilish.
Yet, it is said that North Korean leaders had millions of people starve to death while developing nuclear weapons during 1990's.
Anyway, if the SDP, like N Korea, still regards America as a nation of devils, its leaders and members must not go to America for sight seeing or any business to come back proudly with memory of enjoying rich and free American culture.
(Why can leaders of the SDP buy and use a Sony's product or a Toyota's car while Sony and Toyota are good friends of capitalist America? Those leaders should work in a factory of Sony or Toyota before discussing any international situations as if a hero or a heroine of Japan, the most peace-loving nation in the world of today.
Do not call hypocrisy socialism.)
SECTION I: Japanese Samurai Regimes
There are no traditions of dominance of a samurai-like class in society of China and Korea.
Japan is unique even in East Asia in that it has a tradition that warriors and their clans constituted a social class to act as land lords, administrators, scholars, engineers, judges, police, and any other public functionaries in addition to military.
If leaders and generals of the Empire of Japan during WWII were a kind of samurai, it is no wonder that they were determined to fight until death, namely until 100 million people were killed by U.S. troops equipped with nuclear-atomic bombs.
If so, they would adopt any samurai methods in battle fields that cannot be accepted and understood by people of today.
Yet, they were not wild monsters like European warriors who could not even read and write.
There was strong samurai ethics based on Confucianism and a school of Buddhism.
However, if they faced a situation that surpassed their capacity in discipline with philosophy and Buddhism, they would resort to the sword only eventually.
The situation after the Great Depression of 1929 was such one.
(To be continued...)
(Il s'agit d'un esprit soupçonneux qui change un partisan de l'adversaire. That is why happiness does not make a man grow. So, better love the poor than the rich, dear, even in national election.
http://www.just-oldies.com/1969/suspicious_minds.htm )
Joh 9:8 The neighbours therefore, and they which before had seen him that he was blind, said, Is not this he that sat and begged?
Joh 9:9 Some said, This is he: others said, He is like him: but he said, I am he.
Joh 9:10 Therefore said they unto him, How were thine eyes opened?
Joh 9:11 He answered and said, A man that is called Jesus made clay, and anointed mine eyes, and said unto me, Go to the pool of Siloam, and wash: and I went and washed, and I received sight.