Western Values and Japan - Douglas Coulter

by Emily John Digital Marketing Service Provider

“When Pilate saw that he could prevail nothing, but that rather a tumult was made, he took water, and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, I am innocent of the blood of this just person: see ye to it.” Matthew 27:24

Recently the Japanese government spent millions of dollars to prevent the erection of memorial in San Francisco to the Korean comfort women who suffered during Japan’s thirty-five year occupation of Korea.   Some news of this made the media, but has anyone seen a letter of outrage to the editor, much less an editorial, in The New York Times, The Washington Post, or The Financial Times?   Or has anyone in the West thought of how the public would react if the German government spent millions of dollars to prevent the erection of a memorial to sufferers of the Holocaust?
Members of the Japanese cabinet and the ruling party regularly visit the Yasukuni shrine which, along with Japanese soldiers who died in the Second World War, commemorates Japanese war criminals.   Has anyone in the West thought of how the public would react if Merkel and members of the German cabinet and the ruling party visited S.S. graves?
During the last two years American Secretary of State Kerry and American President Obama commiserated with the Japanese over the deaths of innocent civilians at Hiroshima.  The number of innocent civilians killed at Nanjing, China is disputed, but it certainly equals those of both Hiroshima and Nagasaki combined and does not include those from the bombings of Shanghai, Wuhan, and Chongqing, yet Japan denies that the Nanjing massacre even occurred, and when UNESCO made Nanjing an historical site, like Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan cancelled its contributions to UNESCO.   Has anyone seen a letter of outrage about this, much less an editorial, in The New York Times, The Washington Post, or The Financial Times, or thought of how the West would react if Germany did something similar?
Twenty to thirty million Chinese died in the war, as against three and a half million Japanese, five to seven times more, an indisputable historical fact and these figures freely available on Google.    This is exacerbated by the fact that Japan invaded China.   China did not invade Japan.     The Japanese forced Chinese women to be comfort women for their soldiers.   The Chinese did not force Japanese women to be comfort women for their soldiers.     Japan occupied and colonized Korea, not the reverse, and forced Korean women to be comfort women for its soldiers, not the reverse.    Japan was not a victim.    Other countries were victims.    These historical facts should not need to be repeated, except that Japan constantly distorts and denies them, as Germany would never do.

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