For the fact that America and European countries conquered Asian and African regions and made them their colonies, we have learned at classes of history in junior and senior high-schools.
For American history, our textbooks have referred to the black slaves in the pages of Civil War with the relation of the both. Regarding the slavery of black people, — although we do not learn much about it — there had been also terrible situations in the European colonies such as of UK, France, Spain etc.
In the former half of 20th century, at the time of aggression and territorial expansion, namely at the time of “imperialism”, also Japan forayed neighboring Asian countries. It’s an undeniable fact.
Some people insist that Japan’s Army never did such things — as forcing to import and consume opium, treating negroid like beast, slaughtering Jews or killing tens of thousand people at one time by dropping atomic bombs.
But those things should never change the fact of invasion. Actually, before the defeat of second world war, Japan invaded Korean Peninsula so that it forced the people to change their names as well as their official language. Also in Nanjing, China, surely rapes and slaughter should have been done by Japanese even if the number of sacrifices had not been so huge as it was said at first.
President Barack Obama told, in his first inauguration (2009), that his father “might not have been served at a local restaurant“; nowadays they should not be able to do such discriminating acts. In fact, on the billboard of a day-nursery, that I saw in a suburb of Canada last month, there showed pictures of 3 kids with different skin colors standing side by side.
Furthermore, — there is nothing new to be said here because everyone knows it — those black persons in reality as Barack Obama or Colin Powell have been taking significant positions more and more in society; that is as well as fictional black people whom we see in TV dramas, which should be reflecting the real society in a depth or anticipating the future.
North America did break away from such old-fashioned colonialism. (But, in the name of “freedom” and “democracy”, the US has been carrying out military actions that in truth have relations with the interests of certain political groups and economic giants; also it have been attempting to dominate other countries economically using fine-sounding expression “Partnership”.)
Japanese Government’s spokesmen often mention the words, “mutually beneficial relationship based on common strategic interests”. But if we would like to have such relationship with neighboring countries, we should say good-bye to the old-fashioned colonialism.
It can not be said but anachronism that we call the leaders of war “eirei” (that means dead person at war with high spirit of patriotism), at which Japan invaded other countries in order to expand territories and gain more colonies.
Why such a person deserves to be our Prime Minister? — Such a person who asserts himself like right-wings on the web (also called foolish right-wings), when he was criticized his position of being thoughtless to our neighboring countries!
It is obvious under the view of human rights, how the consciousness of the political leaders in those days, if we consider the situation that they forced young people to die like guinea pigs at “kamikaze attacks”. We would not use the term “conservative” for the person who is longing for the past dark era.
By the way, I recall a matter of a “hawk” prime minister Yasuhiro Nakasone, who was on the post at the presidency of Ronald Reagan (– but Mr. Nakasone is still alive).
Speaking ill of America’s ethnic groups as they acquired poor education, he came to have no choice but resigning from Prime Minister. Of course, in his speech, he intended to show superiority of the Japanese.
Commentaries from a Japanese 