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Concerning post #226



Uh... it's not news to me nor am I the one who needs convincing.





Just to clarify for anyone else who chose to misread my post #225:



Point 1 of that post - where the word controversial was in quotes - was about the real reason Shinzo Abe chose that time to visit Yasukuni: it was a political message to China (as stated: that the two countries could stop pretending to be friends/stop pretending that they could have anything to discuss until China backs down from encroachment on Japanese space).



Point 2 of that post was about the alien psyops against Japan, where they try to generate alarmist fears about Shinto-tva as a fundootva/religious rightwing (akin to alien psyops against Hindootva as allegedly being a fundootva). Though the words controversial and nefarious etc weren't in quotes there, they don't really need to be either because that section is on the alien psyops' POV anyway. [2]



(Shintos are naturally nationalistic - as Hindus are nationalistic since both cases concern the beloved heathen homeland of the concerned heathen populations. Does not imply that Abe's political moves/messages are intended as offensive belligerence toward anyone, let alone as Japan wanting to retread any form of Japanese imperialism - or anything related to channeling WWII, contrary to alien psyops' deliberately alarmist projections [1] that deliberately try to tie WWII with the present.)



And while the christoconditioned western liberals pretended that Abe's Shinto-tva should get along with AmeriKKKa's actually rightwing christian right, one commenter at least saw the most basic flaw in that logic when he observed that AmeriKKKa's christian right would be compelled to convert-or-kill the Shinto Japanese for their polytheistic idolatry. I.o.w. western liberals who wanted to project Shinto-tva as any kind of natural allies with the AmeriKKKan (or other) christian right were deliberately lying to readers about its possibility/viability. Not to mention traditional Shintos have nothing in common with christians and christianism.





Personally, I don't see why Japanese are not allowed to commemorate those that died for their nation, when AmeriKKKans and Europeans who committed crimes against humanity are regularly commemorated and even cheered. Everyone from Columbus, Churchill, to AmeriKKKan founding fathers/presidential genociders of the native Americans is projected positively by the victors' history-writing and this whitewashed projection of their characters as something admirable is imposed on the rest of the world (including the very victims of these alien terrorists). The Japanese are not asking anyone else to commemorate the Japanese dead enshrined at Yasukuni. Whereas - for example - Columbus Day is some special day in America and native Americans are expected to stomach it.



Having said that, and regardless of my opinion, Yasukuni or at least visits by the highest ranking politicians to the memorial are indeed regarded as "controversial" now even in Japan: youngsters are brainwashed into this view.

But will paste less widely-known stuff concerning Yasukuni and Japan in the next post.





[1] One of the Japan-stationed alien anti-Japanese psyops links that was posted earlier mentioned approvingly the news article 'The Economist Tokyo Bureau Chief Tamzin Booth's allusively titled Banyan post "See you at Yasukuni"'.

IIRC that phrase, as all those who were ever interested in the Kamikaze would already know, is what the Kamikaze said to each other before they went on their missions: that they would return (and forever) by being enshrined in Yasukuni upon their death. Rather moving I always thought. Since the alien shisaku blog recommended the article at The Economist (didn't read), it would probably have been alien psyops too and trying to present this as something evil and sinister - with which they try to project WWII onto modern Japan's re-assertion. Note the west (esp. US) has a love-hate thing going for kamikaze: they're in love with Kamikaze's heroism, the kind the christowest doesn't have - because they don't love their countries (which are dead to the christos) the way the Shintos love their hallowed land. But at the same time they demonize the Kamikaze too, for the crime of dying for Japan. If they had died for AmeriKKKa - or if aliens had done this, not that they could - it would be the stuff of legends in the west.



But the phrase "See You At Yasukuni" was far from sinister: The pilots expected to see each other again in their homeland. The Kamikaze were intent on (their spirits) returning to their homeland to live forever there, having served their nation and having died to protect it. (Many Kamikaze willingly sacrificed themselves in their missions even after knowing Japan had lost.) "See you in Yasukuni" is based on a very Shinto notion, shared also by the "Thunder Gods" (IIRC another division of Shinto suicide pilots, akin to the Kamikaze = "Divine Wind"), one of whom wrote the following before his suicide mission [special credit goes to the episode of SAAB from decades ago, that had led me to the book that records it], which echoes a similar notion of living forever in the Shinto homeland upon their sacrifice:

With my mission now at hand, my dear old town, my dear old people,

I now abandon everything and leave to protect this country.

To preserve our eternal and just cause, I now go forth.

My body will collapse like a falling cherry blossom

but my soul will live and protect this land forever.

Farewell. I am a glorious wild cherry blossom.

I shall return to my mother's place and bloom.

- Mayumi Ichikawa.

(By the way, the Kamikaze and Thunder Gods were deeply Shinto in their life and this is specifically documented as being behind their spiritual conviction as Kamikaze too.)





[2] You can see the US demonisation of Japan/manufacturing consent to contain Japan is fully in swing with the recent AmeriKKKan *political* posturing about Japanese hunting dolphins: the news is full of "Evil Japan is hunting dolphins". Abe correctly responded to the US govt official taunting Japan that dolphin hunting was traditional in Japan and that these dolphins weren't endangered.



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Japan’s PM Abe defends Taiji dolphin hunt, cites culture and tradition

Jan 28, 2014 John Hofilena National 1 Comment



Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has defended Japan’s dolphin hunt earlier this month, an act that has been strongly criticized by the international community – including by newly appointed United States ambassador to Japan Caroline Kennedy who said that the corralling of hundreds of dolphins into the secluded Taiji Bay and killing them was “inhumane”. Abe, in an interview with CNN, had asked the world to understand that the controversial hunt was part of Japanese culture and tradition, not to mention that it financially supports the fishing communities involved in the hunt.

“The dolphin fishing that takes place in Taiji is an ancient fishing practice rooted in their culture. It supports their livelihoods,” Abe said in the interview which was uploaded onto CNN’s Japanese website on Friday. “We hope you will understand this,” he added, saying that the Japanese government was aware of criticism of the hunt. “In every country and region, there are practices and ways of living and culture that have been handed down from ancestors,” Abe said. “Naturally, I feel that these should be respected.”



According to the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, the Taiji fisherman herded more than 250 dolphins into the cove at Taiji on Jan. 18. The annual dolphin hunt caught worldwide attention when it became the subject of a 2009 Academy Award-winning documentary film called “The Cove”. Those who support the Japanese practice say that the dolphins that are targets of the hunt are not endangered, a position that has been echoed by the Japanese government. They say that the criticism the hunt receives is hypocritical, especially as they claim that the dolphin hunt is not different to the slaughter of an obviously bigger number of cows, pigs and sheep to satisfy global demand.

Hypocritical AmeriKKKan govt has no moral leg to stand on. Cows, pigs and chickens in the west incl AmeriKKKa have no room at all to do anything but stand in the same position. It's really pathetic. And then they get killed. Why don't they stop that - it's not even a tradition. AmeriKKKa is inhumane.





And then there's the recent Chinese film Flowers of War from 2011 (imdb.com/title/tt1410063/?ref_=nv_sr_1) starring Christian Bale despite it being a Chinese film directed by Zhang Yimou. Using the real "Rape of Nanking" only as a setting, the actual plot of the film itself is a total fiction: some western guy hiding as a priest in a Chinese nunnery/church (but of course, it's christo dawaganda film) where the Chinese nuns get brutally raped by the Japanese soldiers. (Then the Western/White Male runs off with the Asian Female as per the mention of this part of the plot at the bigwowo blog concerning Interracial Relationships Disparity.)

Important note: The plot is fiction: it never happened. Not based on true events or anything. But the film apparently *graphically* depicts all the rape scenes of the poor Chinese nuns by the evil Japanese men anyway. And why would the film do so? For the same reason that Slumdog Millionaire was pure fiction and depicted graphic and disgusting violence. I.e. [color="#0000FF"]it's dawaganda cinema: its purpose is to show extreme violence and cruelty using fiction to emotionally incense viewers into hating the bad guys in the movies, as intended by the creators.[/color] And Zhang Yimou deliberately used nuns as the victims to appeal to a western audience and make them hate the Japanese for attacking helpless celibate christian women so brutally, despite this particular story never happening in the Rape of Nanking. Christian Bale was obviously cast to appeal to western audiences, as was the Western Male - Asian Female subplot.



If Zhang Yimou had made a historical movie - of some actual events at Nanking - it would have been less offensive and not seem so political. But by using highly contrived fiction instead of facts (which were bad enough, so why create fiction?), it's clear that the movie is being blatantly opportunistic in trying to demonise Japan to western audiences.

Though several of the comments at the madmonarchist blog entry linked to at the Rajeev2004 blog were also interesting in what they had to say.