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• BlasianBytch

  I think these Americans talking about Pearl Harbor have VERY selective memory. They are forgetting the atomic bombs dropped on 2 Japanese cities by the US as well as the out pouring of donations and relief aid that Japanese citizens after hurricane Katrina. Which was donated without “Feel bad for the US? Think about Hiroshima and Nagasaki” all over Facebook.

• http://rayhawkreview.com/ JonathanTB

  A great number of these insensitive people speak about Pearl Harbor as if they were there. Don’t insult the people who it directly affected (and were actually there) by claiming some ownership to the harsh trauma and backlash it produced. How could they fully comprehend the different feelings of rage, sadness, and loss of human life that day when they weren’t even born yet? These Japanese people are in no way the same as the Japanese people of the 1930s and 1940s. This generation of people were trying to live their lives, work their jobs, raise their families, and all those other things we do here in America or any other country for that matter. And I loathe the minority of Americans that actually relish at the thought that other races and cultures deserve such a cruel and harsh destruction of land and devastation of human life while they sit smugly in their comfortable chairs stroking themselves while playing on their smart phones, updating their Facebook statuses, and tweeting their stupid asinine thoughts that honestly nobody gives a $#*! about. Remember 9/11? Hurricane Katrina? Do you remember how we desperately needed help? Remember how other countries helped out without its people making asses out of themselves spouting stupid nonsense? For those who actually believe that Japan deserve this for whatever national, religious, social, or political reason I honestly hope the next natural disaster isn’t the one that wipes their smug faces of the Earth because the one thing about Karma that always holds true is that whether good or bad it will eventually come back to in ten fold.

• http://rayhawkreview.com/ JonathanTB

  A great number of these insensitive people speak about Pearl Harbor as if they were there. Don’t insult the people who it directly affected (and were actually there) by claiming some ownership to the harsh trauma and backlash it produced. How could they fully comprehend the different feelings of rage, sadness, and loss of human life that day when they weren’t even born yet? These Japanese people are in no way the same as the Japanese people of the 1930s and 1940s. This generation of people were trying to live their lives, work their jobs, raise their families, and all those other things we do here in America or any other country for that matter. And I loathe the minority of Americans that actually relish at the thought that other races and cultures deserve such a cruel and harsh destruction of land and devastation of human life while they sit smugly in their comfortable chairs stroking themselves while playing on their smart phones, updating their Facebook statuses, and tweeting their stupid asinine thoughts that honestly nobody gives a $#*! about. Remember 9/11? Hurricane Katrina? Do you remember how we desperately needed help? Remember how other countries helped out without its people making asses out of themselves spouting stupid nonsense? For those who actually believe that Japan deserve this for whatever national, religious, social, or political reason I honestly hope the next natural disaster isn’t the one that wipes their smug faces of the Earth because the one thing about Karma that always holds true is that whether good or bad it will eventually come back to in ten fold.

• raymonst

  it amazes me that in the year 2011, stupid people are still everywhere and in some cases, are louder than ever. i also saw a video earlier today of a girl who praises “god” for sending a tsunami to japan and killing off atheists. THAT really made me want to reach into the screen and bitchslap the idiot.

  sometimes i have zero faith in humanity.

• Boogerhead

  Ever have a Japanese from Japan tell you, a Chinese American female that China during the Japanese invasion (and implicitly by association) deserved to be raped and murdered? Sound a bit Nazi right? 70,000 killed in the Beichuan China earthquake plus 60 million killed by the Japanese versus the almost 2000 confirmed dead in Japan this week: Is anyone saying that by the same logic, China deserves “it” even more?

• Boogerhead

  Ever have a Japanese from Nagoya Japan tell you, a Chinese American female that China during the Japanese invasion (and implicitly by association) deserved to be raped and murdered? Sound a bit Nazi right? 70,000 killed in the Beichuan China earthquake plus 60 million killed by the Japanese versus the almost 2000 confirmed dead in Japan this week: Is anyone saying that by the same logic, China deserves “it” even more?

• Boogerhead

  Ever have a Japanese from Japan tell you, a Chinese American female that China during the Japanese invasion (and implicitly by association) deserved to be raped and murdered? Sound a bit Nazi right? 70,000 killed in the Beichuan China earthquake plus 60 million killed by the Japanese versus the almost 2000 confirmed dead in Japan this week: Is anyone saying that by the same logic, China deserves “it” even more?

• Boogerhead

  Ever have a Japanese from Japan tell you, a Chinese American female that China during the Japanese invasion (and implicitly by association) deserved to be raped and murdered? Sound a bit Nazi right? 70,000 killed in the Beichuan China earthquake plus 60 million killed by the Japanese versus the almost 2000 confirmed dead in Japan this week: Is anyone saying that by the same logic, China deserves “it” even more?

• Boogerhead

  Ever have a Japanese from Nagoya Japan tell you, a Chinese American female that China during the Japanese invasion (and implicitly by association) deserved to be raped and murdered? Sound a bit Nazi right? 70,000 killed in the Beichuan China earthquake plus 60 million killed by the Japanese versus the almost 2000 confirmed dead in Japan this week: Is anyone saying that by the same logic, China deserves “it” even more?

• Boogerhead

  Ever have a Japanese from Nagoya Japan tell you, a Chinese American female that China during the Japanese invasion (and implicitly by association) deserved to be raped and murdered? Sound a bit Nazi right? 70,000 killed in the Beichuan China earthquake plus 60 million killed by the Japanese versus the almost 2000 confirmed dead in Japan this week: Is anyone saying that by the same logic, China deserves “it” even more?

• Boogerhead

  Ever have a Japanese from Nagoya Japan tell you, a Chinese American female that China during the Japanese invasion (and implicitly by association) deserved to be raped and murdered? Sound a bit Nazi right? 70,000 killed in the Beichuan China earthquake plus 60 million killed by the Japanese versus the almost 2000 confirmed dead in Japan this week: Is anyone saying that by the same logic, China deserves “it” even more?

• Boogerhead

  Ever have a Japanese from Nagoya Japan tell you, a Chinese American female that China during the Japanese invasion (and implicitly by association) deserved to be raped and murdered? Sound a bit Nazi right? 70,000 killed in the Beichuan China earthquake plus 60 million killed by the Japanese versus the almost 2000 confirmed dead in Japan this week: Is anyone saying that by the same logic, China deserves “it” even more?

• Boogerhead

  Ever have a Japanese from Nagoya Japan tell you, a Chinese American female that China during the Japanese invasion (and implicitly by association) deserved to be raped and murdered? Sound a bit Nazi right? 70,000 killed in the Beichuan China earthquake plus 60 million killed by the Japanese versus the almost 2000 confirmed dead in Japan this week: Is anyone saying that by the same logic, China deserves “it” even more?

• Boogerhead

  @BlasianBytch Did the Japanese stop raping and killing across Asia after Iwo Jima and Okinawa? No. Did they stop after the A bombs? yes. Did the American POWs get to tell their eyewitness accounts of the treatment of the Dutch and English women and children held hostage by the Japanese to make the Allies hesitate fighting the Japanese? No. Did Iris Chang interview them right before she died? Yes. Is Iris Chang dead?

• moye

  @Boogerhead @BlasianBytch Am I confused about what point you’re trying to make? Yes.

• BreakingTheBow

  Talk about unprepared journalist. in front of the library and see some young guys carrying sings. Thought they were high schoolers promoting their free car wash. Drove by and it’s KevJumba, Ryan Higa, and others getting people to honk for Japan. Rushed home and couldn’t find my camera. By the time I did, they were gone.

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• Danny_Ahmed

  Don’t give these people any more attention than they already have.

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• http://angryhapagrrl.wordpress.com/ Bunni

  @Boogerhead I’m surprised NOBODY mentioned the Bataan Death March, or how the Japanese bombed Manila (leaving only the Manila Hotel standing) AND forced Pilipinas into becoming comfort women. As a Pilipina who’s experienced racism at the hands of the Japanese…I’m on the fence with this issue.

  I worry about my friends and my kababayan in Japan, but any other Japanese that shows disrespect to my people, NO.

• CrzySxyFangrl69

  @Boogerhead I’m surprised NOBODY mentioned the Bataan Death March, or how the Japanese bombed Manila (leaving only the Manila Hotel standing) AND forced Pilipinas into becoming comfort women. As a Pilipina who’s experienced racism at the hands of the Japanese…I’m on the fence with this issue.

  I worry about my friends and my kababayan in Japan, but any other Japanese that shows disrespect to my people, NO.

• moye

  @CrzySxyFangrl69 Here’s the difference. This is a natural disaster. You’re bringing up horrific tragedies from premeditated actions during a world war.

  Sympathizing with the relief effort in Japan is NOT the same as condoning the country’s actions during a very different time and it’s important to understand that.

• Boogerhead

  @CrzySxyFangrl69 I was thinking of the PI more in terms two things: (1) PIs annual devastating floods that don’t get much foreign media attention that are the direct result of deforestation paid by Japanese companies that were used for unnecessary and disposable goods such as one use chopsticks and wood frames for poured cement at construction sites back in Japan; this was reported as intentional on the part of Japan because of their misuse (again) of the Chinese saying that tall trees are meant to become nothing less than tall pillars – meaning don’t put excellent materials to poor use. Are these floods what the people of the PI deserve for siding with the Americans in the guerilla war to take back the country from the Japanese – Japan has never forgotten the open defiance of the Philippine people towards the massacrists. (2) After WW2, it was the PI not Japan that was the superpower in the region – makes a lot of sense given country’s history and absorption of foreigners and influences. The reputation of the Filipinos is that they make sure everyone in the business deal is happy with the result. I think that Japan was propped up by American business because of the Cold War at the expense of the Philippines.

  CNN doesn’t fundraise for Filipino flood victims, you know.

  I think that a lot of people still feel that Modern Japanese born after WW2 are feigning remorse and ignorance while being the latest generation to be racist towards others in way that is unlike racism by any other country (except Germany.) I was watching Japanese news one morning and they openly showed the stores that had cartoon signs (for non Japanese readers) of different foreigners doing bad things in the store with a big red circle and slash after them. One cartoon showed an Indian woman in a sari and bindi asking for excessive sugar and cream in a coffee shop. Another showed Chinese people touching things on display shelves – this was in an antique store with buddhist statues from China and India! Another sign in a supermarket showed white people opening up food packages before or at the register before paying. This happened within the last few years. I think a lot of people think that Japan isn’t that nice to non Japanese.

  But I was originally responding to the absence in logic of stating that Japan “deserves” the off shore earthquake and tsunami because that means that the Thais, Indonesians, Sri Lankans deserved their tsunami and that Haiti deserved their earthquake. I think it is okay and much better to be straightforward and say, you know, I don’t like them because they don’t like me and mine so this disaster could have happened to nicer people and I’d be more sympathetic. But to say that an act of nature is deserved well, if only Mother Nature worked in such ways. If she did, there wouldn’t ever have been a World War 1 or 2 because for sure, Asia Ex Japan, the World Ex Germany did not deserve that.

  It’s really the misuse of the word “deserve” that gets to me. I think that we always tiptoe around the fact that there was never justice for WW2 because of the Cold War and that makes us inarticulate. We feel constrained like it is taboo to be open simple and straightforward about Japan and Germany. Like it is politically incorrect to say about people who apologize without genuine amends or punishment that our intuition tells us there is something amiss there and we all have scattered anecdotes with both these nationalities that leave us uneasy. Very uneasy. And they can talk about Volkswagens and Nato participation and Hello Kitty ad nauseum but there is just something going on that we can’t figure out but it’s THERE.

• http://angryhapagrrl.wordpress.com/ Bunni

  @moye Hey, what about the Pilipino workers who are CONSTANTLY abused and subjugated as guest workers in Japan? There was a recent report where Japanese hospitals wanted to employ robots BECAUSE they didn’t want Pilipino nurses attending to their elderly! WTF is that?!?!?! Not only that, but they deliberately DON’T want Pilipino nurses helping their aging population!

  Don’t EVEN get me started with “japayukis”.

• moye

  @CrzySxyFangrl69 And discrimination against others by Filipinos doesn’t exist? If there’s another devastating flood in the Philippines, am I justified in using these examples to not give the people there a hand and believe they deserved it?

  And yeah, WTF over reports of abuse against Filipino workers. That’s awful. But unless this quake was specifically targeted to those people who abuse others, then I really don’t see the relationship between the two.

• moye

  @CrzySxyFangrl69 And discrimination against others by Filipinos doesn’t exist? If there’s another devastating flood in the Philippines, am I justified in using these examples to not give the people there a hand and believe they deserved it?

  And yeah, WTF over reports of abuse against Filipino workers. That’s awful. But unless this quake was specifically targeted to those people who abuse others, then I really don’t see the relationship between the two.

• http://angryhapagrrl.wordpress.com/ Bunni

  @moye Do you have ANY evidence of Japan helping MY country (Philippines) when Typhoon Ondoy struck in 2009? Or any other rich country for that matter without some ulterior motive?

  *crickets* Thought so.

• CrzySxyFangrl69

  @moye Do you have ANY evidence of Japan helping MY country (Philippines) when Typhoon Ondoy struck in 2009? Or any other rich country for that matter without some ulterior motive?

  *crickets* Thought so.

• http://angryhapagrrl.wordpress.com/ Bunni

  @Boogerhead I completely agree that CNN doesn’t do fundraisers for the Philippines.

  I am very worried about the OFWs in Japan though….it’s bad enough that the Japanese continue to exploit them, but for their own government to not even help them return home…utterly despicable.

• Boogerhead

  @CrzySxyFangrl69 @moye I saw on FCI Morning News a few years ago, that Japanese are trying to replace Filipinas with their record for organized protests with the less experienced Indonesian caregivers (not registered nurses just someone to take care of their senior citizens) and the reporter showed the Japanesed old people giving the young Indonesians such looks of meanness and disrespect because the Indonesians needed help learning the Chinese characters used in the Japanese language. Learning Chinese characters from Japanese people. They should take care of their own old people. There’s nothing wrong with being an OFW but there IS something so LAME about not doing your own housework and not taking care of your own parents. I feel the same way about OFWs in Hongkong. Some of those workers have graduate degrees just like a lot of nurses are doctors in PI. RESPECT them. I wouldn’t be surprised if the PI didn’t reemerge as a jewel boxed super power.

  I think the nuclear reactors are going to cause the entire region a long term headache. Chinese supermarkets in NYC are already marking up the prices for rice that are obviously imported pre-tsunami nuclear reactor leaks. I can see where this is going. Texmati and Lundberg are going to see a surge in sales because people are worried that the leaks are worse than reported and will spread to contaminate all food products in the region.

  So, the answer to the original strangely worded topic is still NO – a natural disaster is not an act of justice served. It is not “deserved.”

  If I were in Korea or Shanghai, I’d skedaddle out of the region.

• http://angryhapagrrl.wordpress.com/ Bunni

  @moye Nobody really helps us anyway unless they want to put a multi-national corporation in our country, deforest the highlands (which makes the flooding more devastating), or legitimize having mail-order brides. Uh, no.

• moye

  @CrzySxyFangrl69 Um, did you try Google?

  Here’s one:

  http://tokyo.philembassy.net/events/niigata-prefecture-donates-%C2%A5300000-for-typhoon-ondoy-disaster-relief-efforts/

  Dude, I’m not trying to argue against your point that shit happens and sometimes it’s Japan to blame. But what are you trying to say about other people supporting the disaster relief in Japan?

• CrzySxyFangrl69

  @Boogerhead Wow, you took the words outta my mouth.

  Yeah, what’s with the Japanese not wanting to take care of their aging families? I thought that was a universal Asian thing to take care and respect your elders?

• CrzySxyFangrl69

  @Boogerhead Wow, you took the words outta my mouth.

  Yeah, what’s with the Japanese not wanting to take care of their aging families? I thought that was a universal Asian thing to take care and respect your elders?

• Boogerhead

  @CrzySxyFangrl69 If it gets bad, the US military may help them out even without citizenship or if they have any Chinese relatives, they may be able to ask for a favor if China will do an airlift like in Egypt and Libya but China will bill because they billed Hong Kong residents who hitched a ride on the plane for Chinese nationals. I am more worried for the strawberry pickers and other intentionally undocumented workers from China who aren’t allowed to deviate from walking on a specific side of the street on the route from the job to the sleeping arrangements. They are in small towns where all the residents stare at them whenever they are on the streets – they are even told they can not pause in walking the prescribed route – they cannot linger or they are threatened that the police will send them back to China. Those hand sized strawberries for five dollars in fancy department stores are raised by Chinese farmers employed by Japanese in China and intentionally kept illegal so that wages will be low and unrecorded.

  I think that the OFWs at least have a more legal status but I bet that they won’t get equal treatment. Even Japanese are being turned away and the town North of Sendai where the Chinese team is being sent hasn’t gotten ANY assistance. At least, all the foreign press means that a redux of the 1923 Kanto Earthquake mass murders – really lynchings of nonJapanese Asians will be unlikely.

  Over 300 murderers pardoned by Hirohito for murdering thousands of Asians.

• http://angryhapagrrl.wordpress.com/ Bunni

  @moye I’m not saying anything. I just think people should be very careful where they donate (Red Cross apparently recieved $0 in donations last time I checked, maybe a hacker? Salvation Army has a long history of squandering donations). My donation will go to my friends in Japan and the poor OFWs there.

  If I seriously had the monetary means, I’d fly there and HELP directly.

• CrzySxyFangrl69

  On a random note, I’m surprised there aren’t American otaku doing an interpretation of the tsunami using characters from “Axis Powers Hetalia”. It’s totally 4chan trolly material.

• Boogerhead

  @moye @CrzySxyFangrl69 Do you really want to go there? Japanese “businessmen” married to local Pinays are periodically stabbed to death in the PIs because the yakuza has been trying to get under the skin of PI society for decades. The embassy there is very fishy and is often writing these condescending missives about why are the locals such a mess – uh, because if not for chaos, the yakuza and rightists wouldn’t be running around in circles. There are still too many poor people in the PI vulnerable to a richer predatory neighbor so the government although a democracy can’t afford to be too transparent or openly efficient. There is no love for the Japanese in Southeast Asia. Every aid program is tied to some business contract advantageous to Japan. Friedemann Bartu’s Ugly Japanese is only the surface.

  7,117 islands and fresh fruit and rich fertile soil in abundance and a mestizo culture that makes the people the most socially adept and international of all the countries in the region. These people can’t be bought, can’t be lied to and they are the only foreigners allowed to work on US Naval ships and to cook for George Bush Senior.

• http://angryhapagrrl.wordpress.com/ Bunni

  @Boogerhead @moye I was being sarcastic.

  Oh, and WHY is freakin Noynoy Aquino sending AID to Japan? The Philippines is very poor…

  http://pinoyweekly.org/new/2011/03/after-two-massive-disasters-in-one-day-and-tons-of-people-dead-or-suffering-it’s-reality-check-for-president-aquino/

  Seriously, TAKE CARE OF YOUR OWN FUCKING PEOPLE!!!

• Boogerhead

  @moye @CrzySxyFangrl69 This is after the middleaged Japanese man was caught making internet movies of a 15 year old Pinay in the PI. Thailand is donating $165000 and I don’t think the Thais should have to kick in, especially when Japanese sex tourists are so notorious in this country. Developing countries shouldn’t have to kick in.

• Pact

  Either from a “Pearl Harbor” or religious video/point of view (you know which one I mean), no one country deserves something like this. The earth is ever changing and natural disasters happen. They just simply happen. If they don’t know why, they should open a 6th grade science book. There is no karma involve. Like the original post state that Pear Harbor was over 70 years ago. The people responsible for it are already dead, or at least 90+ years old by now. To say that the Japanese, or any country for that matter, deserves this is nonsense.

• Boogerhead

  @Pact I am not talking about dead people. I am talking about current living Japanese- the type who beat up Korean Japanese school children every time North Korea is in the news in Japan, about the Japanese who left death threats in Iris Chang’s car and mailbox before she died. I am talking about the rule in Hongkong to never enter an elevator with a bunch of Japanese businessmen if you are female. I firmly believe that a raging hatred of other Asians (and probably all other races including the “elite” White) exists in present day Japan and there is no excuse to blame their society – everyone is individually accountable for their own conduct. If Akihito sends you out to force someone to commit suicide to save their baby, you are just as guilty as Akihito.

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• g_jojog

  With this way of thinking , why then you don’t say for hiroshima and nagashaki the atomic bombs that America send in this two cities, or did america deserve what happen 11 september? stop say non sense, so many lives die that day, don’t be stupid. think before speak!