Re: Elderly Japanese Volunteer To Clean Up Radiation
Here's the original' interview:
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My man speaks pretty good Engrish... a damn sight better than my Japanese.
"Oh, my God. We are not kamikaze!" An amazing reaction of modesty--it's plain he understands the "you're crazy" inference in the question, "Are you kamikaze penshioners?"
He's got two<span style="font-style: italic"> cooks</span> who want to volunteer--they said, "workers have to eat". An amazing demonstration of nationalism, culture, and values.
If the actual timing of the breaking of diplomatic relations between Japan and USA in 1941 had actually worked out correctly, Pearl Harbor would not have been the villainous sneak attack as our history records it. It would have been the immediate follow-up of a "actual" declaration of war.
Had we won such a war that started with "more honor", we would probably have seen the Japanese in a different light, and regarded (most) of its' code and culture with the same awe and fascination with which the modern world now regards Sparta.