(Great is Tokyo for hard working, peace loving, and low abiding people since the era of Ieyasu 400 years ago)Verification of the Centuries of War
If you want to make the world peaceful, you must introduce the following article into your constitution:
ARTICLE 9. Aspiring sincerely to an international peace based on justice and order, the Japanese people forever renounce war as a sovereign right of the nation and the threat or use of force as means of settling international disputes. (2) To accomplish the aim of the preceding paragraph, land, sea, and air forces, as well as other war potential, will never be maintained. The right of belligerency of the state will not be recognized.
SECTION I: JAPAN & CHINA vs. Europe/America
Modernization of China was only possible through contribution from Japan.
After ending the closed-door policy under the Tokugawa samurai regime around 1860's, the Empire of Japan started to aggressively import and study Western civilization more openly, though some critical information about the world had been brought into Japan through trade with the Netherlands who was exceptionally allowed to trade with Japan in the samurai era.
Japanese people encountered many Western concepts to translate each of them into appropriate Kanji expressions. Chinese elites then adopted the Japanese translations, since they are so accurate and insightful in choosing Kanji or Chinese letters. One example is the Kanji expression of "People's Republic of China."
According to research, those Kanji expressions originated in Japan in the late 19th century account for 70% of today's Chinese expressions meaning the same concepts in science, sociology, and other academic fields which were imported from Europe/America to Japan and studied by the Japanese people to localize them. Other examples are as follows:
Accordingly, the more Chinese learn science and economy, the more they come to respect Japan or fear Japan.
As a consequence, the Chinese Communist Party would not allow schools in China to teach the true history of East Asia to pupils and students.
It also made it possible for Japanese children and students to learn modern Western culture, using only the Japanese language.
But, it also tells that as Japan had imported, preserved, and more cultivated ancient Chinese civilization to make Kanji words and associated concepts their own. As those Kanji words and associated concepts created by ancient Chinese are rich and abundant, what Japanese people in the late 19th century did was mostly to compare and match original Kanji concepts and Western concepts to create new Kanji idioms.
So, if Europeans and Americans are taught anything about China and Japan by Chinese communist members, they cannot see the truth, since today's Chinese are not so legitimate followers of the ancient Chinese Civilization as today's Japanese are, very ironically, due to raptures and discontinuity in history of the Chinese people.
It is like American tourists go to Israel to meet direct descendants of Jesus Christ's followers. They had better go to the Vatican or the poorest country such as Haiti. And, they should learn history of East Asia from Japanese.
Of course, Chinese youths should also learn history of East Asia from Japanese.
SECTION II: Background of the Pearl Harbor Attack
After the Civil War, Americans changed along with intensified competition in business in the American society being industrialized as they had learnt power of industry through the Civil War which originally started in the agriculture-dominant background as symbolized cotton plantations in the South.
Accordingly, they needed new work force. American businesses liked to accept immigrants from Japan and China. But, the situation was complicated since the market economy was not sufficiently supported by adequate social systems. There could be also delicate rivalry between Japanese immigrants and Chinese immigrants, especially, in California:
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Anti-Japanese sentiment
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Pre-20th century
In the United States, anti-Japanese sentiment had its beginnings well before the Second World War...Some cite the formation of the Asiatic Exclusion League as the start of the anti-Japanese movement in California.[9]
Early 20th century
Anti-Japanese racism in California had become increasingly xenophobic after the Japanese victory over Russia in the Russo-Japanese War. On October 11, 1906, the San Francisco, California Board of Education had passed a regulation whereby children of Japanese descent would be required to attend racially segregated separate schools. At the time, Japanese immigrants made up approximately 1% of the population of California; many of them had come under the treaty in 1894 which had assured free immigration from Japan...
The Japanese invasion of China in 1931 and the annexation of Manchuria was roundly criticized in the US. In addition, efforts by citizens outraged at Japanese atrocities, such as the Nanking Massacre, led to calls for American economic intervention to encourage Japan to leave China; these calls played a role in shaping American foreign policy. As more and more unfavorable reports of Japanese actions came to the attention of the American government, embargoes on oil and other supplies were placed on Japan, out of concern for the Chinese populace and for American interests in the Pacific. Furthermore, the European American population became very pro-China and anti-Japan, an example being a grass-roots campaign for women to stop buying silk stockings, because the material was procured from Japan through its colonies.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Japanese_sentiment
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More significantly, Japanese interest in China and American interest in China were never been coordinated and adjusted for co-existence.
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Fortune Magazine, Vol XI, No. 1, Jan., 1935:
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The thousands of U. S. [Protestant] missionaries did not go out to trade, but they did carry on a spiritual warfare that had material repercussions in America as well as in China. Religious, philanthropic, and educational societies invested from $40,000,000 to $ 50,000,000 (gold), which is equal to the investment of all other nations put together; and the annual U. S. remittances to Chinese missions, etc., traditionally in the millions of dollars and totaling $ 8,000,000 (gold) in 1928, have always played a certain part in balancing China’s international trade.
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The American commercial advance in China was resumed toward the end of the nineteenth century when the Standard Oil Co. out-grew its American market for kerosene. Learning that 400,000,000 Chinese were burning sesame oil in their lamps, Mr. Rockefeller set forth to tap that enormous market in the nineties. With its head-quarters in Shanghai, his company expanded until its hong name, Mei Foo, became a passport to the most distant villages of the interior.
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After the World War one began to hear that Henry Ford was about to revolutionize China with hundreds of millions to be spent in plants and roads. But nothing ever came of this, and Mr. Ford has no plant in China. Meanwhile, and during the booming twenties, there came a flock of U. S. companies whose stocks were soaring in New York — General Motors Corp,. E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., Eastman Kodak Co., the National Aniline & Chemical Co., and Colgate-Palmolive-Peet.
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It appears that the Yankee has come to the Yangtze for good. But strangely enough, even though the American trade is the biggest, the American position is not the strongest. The casual visitor mentally notes that the Yankee puts on a bad show in the Orient. What with the sturdy British tradition, what with the aggressive Japanese, what with an obscure foreign policy, the U. S. does not seem able to perform as a big international power. Her prestige has not been helped by the recent manipulation of silver prices by Congress. Yet the new government at Nanking has for its heroes the fathers of the American Revolution. Hundreds of influential Chinese have been educated in America and welcome our trade, our capital, and, at least until recently, our institutions.
http://brianakira.wordpress.com/2009/04/07/plutocracy-and-the-international-idea/
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Key factors for the Pearl Harbor Attack could be thus found in California and Shanghai in addition to Wall Street without mentioning Washington D.C. in 1941.
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One special jet plane of the Air Self-Defense Force of Japan flew rather low while I was walking. Then another special jet plane of the Air Self-Defense Force of Japan flew exactly above my head.
Indeed, cherry blossom's were still at their best with so many white petals. Yet, they might have come from 65 years ago to inform me of something important, since they flew so bravely and nostalgically...
There must be viewers of EEE Reporter in Heaven but not the hell.
(http://www7.plala.or.jp/machikun/PROMENAD.MID
Source: http://www7.plala.or.jp/machikun/hototogisu2.htm
In a democratic country prosperous with market economy, people never feel a threat of power of elites in the government. Accordingly, no music is needed as a means to record truth of the era.)
Mar 4:5 And some fell on stony ground, where it had not much earth; and immediately it sprang up, because it had no depth of earth:
Mar 4:6 But when the sun was up, it was scorched; and because it had no root, it withered away.