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Saturday 8 November 2008
Fucking Japs Airmen Disagree with War Apology
With many Japs holding important positions in Japan still thinking they did no wrong to us, how can we forgive and forget? Fuck the Japs - let us help liberate them. We nuke them one more time to stone age.
They share sacked general’s view that Japan was not aggressor
Reuters 7 November 2008
TOKYO: More than 70 Japanese air force officers have written essays arguing that Japan should not have apologised for its actions in World War II, it emerged yesterday in the latest row over the country’s militarist past.
The air force’s top general was sacked last week after he submitted an essay in a writing contest saying Japan was not an aggressor in the war, sparking anger in China and South Korea, where many suffered during Japan’s invasion and occupation.
The views of air force chief of staff Toshio Tamogami are shared by some Japanese right-wing historians and politicians, but they contradict a government apology for wartime actions issued in 1995 under then-prime minister Tomiichi Murayama.
General Tamogami’s essay won a prize and was published on a website as part of a competition organised by a real estate company.
Yesterday, the Defence Ministry said 78 members of the air force, including 74 officers, had submitted essays in the competition.
Their views were all similar to those expressed by Gen Tamogami, Mr Toshio Motoya, chief executive officer of Apa Group, which ran the competition, told Reuters in a telephone interview.
‘All 230 competition entrants said that what is being taught and broadcast by the media is wrong. There were no essays expressing the opposite view. They were all close to Gen Tamogami,’ he said.
Mr Motoya said he was head of a friendship group associated with an air force base, but that he had not promoted the essay competition among the armed forces and had been surprised to come across Gen Tamogami’s name.
‘We wondered if it was all right to publish it. So we contacted him and he said it was his firmly held opinion and bravely said we could release his name and title,’ Mr Motoya added.
Japan’s Defence Minister said yesterday that he hoped Gen Tamogami, who was fired from his post but allowed to retire from the armed forces, would return his retirement allowance.
Gen Tamogami said he had no intention of returning the lump sum, because that would imply he had disavowed the views expressed in his essay, broadcaster NHK said.
The essay criticised the tight restrictions placed on Japan’s military by the United States-drafted post-war pacifist Constitution and urged readers to ‘take back the glorious history of Japan’.
‘The Japanese media is saying all sorts of terrible things, but I think he is a samurai with sound views,’ Mr Motoya said.
Prime Minister Taro Aso will be anxious to smooth over the issue weeks before a trilateral summit with China and South Korea that he plans to host in southern Japan.
Mr Aso has come under fire in the past for comments apparently praising Japan’s 1910-1945 colonisation of the Korean Peninsula, but has more recently said he stands by the Murayama apology.
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Japs Airmen disagree with war apology
They share sacked general’s view that Japan was not aggressor
Reuters
7 November 2008
TOKYO: More than 70 Japanese air force officers have written essays arguing that Japan should not have apologised for its actions in World War II, it emerged yesterday in the latest row over the country’s militarist past.
The air force’s top general was sacked last week after he submitted an essay in a writing contest saying Japan was not an aggressor in the war, sparking anger in China and South Korea, where many suffered during Japan’s invasion and occupation.
The views of air force chief of staff Toshio Tamogami are shared by some Japanese right-wing historians and politicians, but they contradict a government apology for wartime actions issued in 1995 under then-prime minister Tomiichi Murayama.
General Tamogami’s essay won a prize and was published on a website as part of a competition organised by a real estate company.
Yesterday, the Defence Ministry said 78 members of the air force, including 74 officers, had submitted essays in the competition.
Their views were all similar to those expressed by Gen Tamogami, Mr Toshio Motoya, chief executive officer of Apa Group, which ran the competition, told Reuters in a telephone interview.
‘All 230 competition entrants said that what is being taught and broadcast by the media is wrong. There were no essays expressing the opposite view. They were all close to Gen Tamogami,’ he said.
Mr Motoya said he was head of a friendship group associated with an air force base, but that he had not promoted the essay competition among the armed forces and had been surprised to come across Gen Tamogami’s name.
‘We wondered if it was all right to publish it. So we contacted him and he said it was his firmly held opinion and bravely said we could release his name and title,’ Mr Motoya added.
Japan’s Defence Minister said yesterday that he hoped Gen Tamogami, who was fired from his post but allowed to retire from the armed forces, would return his retirement allowance.
Gen Tamogami said he had no intention of returning the lump sum, because that would imply he had disavowed the views expressed in his essay, broadcaster NHK said.
The essay criticised the tight restrictions placed on Japan’s military by the United States-drafted post-war pacifist Constitution and urged readers to ‘take back the glorious history of Japan’.
‘The Japanese media is saying all sorts of terrible things, but I think he is a samurai with sound views,’ Mr Motoya said.
Prime Minister Taro Aso will be anxious to smooth over the issue weeks before a trilateral summit with China and South Korea that he plans to host in southern Japan.
Mr Aso has come under fire in the past for comments apparently praising Japan’s 1910-1945 colonisation of the Korean Peninsula, but has more recently said he stands by the Murayama apology.
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