I love the Japanese people but what they did during WWII is horrendous. If more widely known, people would hate them to this day and they would deserve the hatred.
People talk of what the US did to end the war, well it was needed even though I personally hate nuke weapons. The Jap soldiers and gov’t were worse than the Germans if you can believe it.
I worked for the Japanese and truly love them, but that was 40 years later. People were evil and deserve worse than what they got. They were post war treated too kindly due to a certain US general.
The Japanese family I lived with as a student was very eashamed bout what their fellow countrymen did during the war, and they expressed as much to me many times.
His command of the Philippines against Imperial Japan’s invasion of same was less than robust, but the command of the USAAF in the Philippines was even worse. The Japanese destroyed most all US combat aircraft in the Philippines before they even invaded the archipelago. To tell the truth though, it wouldn’t of mattered who commanded the Philippines because there was no way to resupply them without risking a direct confrontation on the high seas w/the IJN — who could’ve completely destroyed the pacific fleet at that point w/their carrier forces alone and indeed, that was exactly what Admiral Yamamoto wanted. The Philippines, like Wake Island, were doomed from the get-go thanks to the IJN having eight fleet carriers to the USN’s six.
The second largest island in the Philippines archipelago, Mindanao, is having big problems w/moslames and AFAIK, nothing is being done about it.
Is it better for the PRC or the f’ing moslames to have influence in the Philippines? If I had to choose, it would be the PRC.
The PRC tried to stop the moslame bastards in Afghastlystan from destroying the nearly 2000 year old statues of Buddha, they tried to bribe them and offered to try and remove the statues — the moslames didn’t care. All evidence that Buddhists and Hindus once lived in Afghastlystan have been completely obliterated by the moslame vermin there.
That cowardly bastid hired his OWN PR firm. Before he waded ashore, slacks rolled up, corncob pipe a-puffin’ and sunglasses, all recommended by his PR firm, how long did he sit on the ship? Officially, there are no records, but servicemen, eye witnesses claim that it was close to three weeks.
His return to the Philippines was overly dramatic.
There’s three things he did of note though:
1. he insisted on the M1-Garand replacing the 1903 Springfield bolt-action rifle. If not for his insistence the US Army would’ve been fielding bolt-action rifles in WW2.
2. he engineered the Inchon landing that cut off the supply lines of the DPRK and led to their complete route from S. Korea.
3. he was also led a company of GIs in WW1 in combat on the Western front.
Bonnie, how much Japanese did you pick up while you were there? I’ve studied the French school forced upon me and forgot most. In my free time I have also taught myself a smattering of German and Spanish. Then I decided to jump into Japanese. Despite English being a Germanic language, and French and Spanish loaning English hundreds of Latin / Greek words to my mother tongue, I found Japanese really easy to learn.
I majored in Japanese in college, then spent my junior year at Waseda University in Tokyo. I worked for several Japanese companies in NYC, including the Japanese Consulate, Japan Travel Bureau, Benihana (who sent me to work in their Tokyo office for one year where I did a lot of translating, them back to NYC where I worked for Mitsubishi, then Hakuhodo Advertising and Dentsu Advertising where I found my real calling in the creative end of the business. I worked as a copywriter for both agencies, then worked my way up to Creative Director for Dentsu, and stayed in advertising after that. I was fairly fluent, speaking reading & writing back then.
That takes absolute courage, a very high IQ, and a very high curiosity level. Your experience in Japan served you well as you developed your brain even more. A great win-win. Cheers.
When I went shopping or to a restaurant in Japan I’d have to translate for my friends who were American born Japanese but spoke very little Japanese. The storekeepers would direct heir answers to them, not me. Even though they understood what I was saying, they couldn’t bring themselves look at the blonde haired, blue eye foreigner speaking Japanese. We always thought that was very funny.
In Los Angeles there was a protest by Japanese or US citizens of Nippon heritage against the unveiling of a statue dedicated to the Comfort Women (i.e. sex slaves) of Korea.
Los Angeles has a huge, expanding, expat. Korean population. I think K-town is now geographically bigger than Little Tokyo. K-town now extends all the way to where the Brown Derby and Ambassador Hotel (where RFK was shot) used to be on Wilshire Blvd.
You show kanji, which is a pictographic language, originating from the Chinese pictographic script. The japaners have phonetic “alphabets”, such as Hiragana and Katakana. Much easier for Westerners to learn.
Of East Asian languages, the syntax (order of words) is almost identical between Japanese and Korean, whereas Chinese, whether Mandarin or Cantonese, closely resembles English (or English more closely resembles Chinese). Learning to read street signs and such, is relatively easy for Westerners in Japan and Korea, but speaking the language correctly is difficult due, in part, to syntax. Kanji is vastly more difficult, at least for me, than Hiragana.
The old riddle:
1) What do you call someone that speaks three or more languages? —– Multi-lingual
2) What do you call someone that speaks two languages? Bilingual
3) What do you call someone that speaks only one language? —- An American
I used to know a Nisei guy, the things he said about Koreans were unbelievable (pathological liars was one of his allegations). His defense of the various sex slaves (i.e. comfort women) taken by Japanese soldiers during WW2 in the Philippines and Korea was similarly disturbing. Strangely enough, his mother was born in Korea, of Japanese parents during the Japanese occupation there. A fact you dared not bring up w/him or you would have to suffer another of his endless screeds against Koreans. He actually defended the Nanking massacre committed by Imperial JP, which left me speechless. I sometimes wondered what he really thought about white people and whether or not his positions on Koreans and Chinese (and Filipinos) was just an insincere act he put on for his white friends.
Only way that you can get japaner citizenship is to adopt a japaner name. Soft Bank’s founder is of Korean descent, as many Koreans were kidnapped over many centuries and forced into japan, “Son” is a Korean surname, by throwing in the Masayoshi, it became enough of a japaner name to satisfy the japaners.
” Smart girl, just wow. Japanese is a 100% different alphabet.”
They actually use three alphabets… Well two really in the phonetic sense. They share pictoral Kanji handed down from China, but have two other phonetic based alphabets which are based on constant vowel pairs. And the vowels, A E I O U are exactly the same.
Japanese language has also many loan words from English. About 80% of contemporary Japanese words are borrowed from English. For instance, hotodogo (hotdog) or hotelu (hotel) or interneto (internet) etc.
Why interneto instead of merely “internet”? That’s because they can spell it. Japanese words with few exceptions end with a vowel. Okinawa, Tokyo, Nagasaki, Hiroshima, Yokohama, Kyoto etc etc.
I wonder if it hurts his/her feet to walk so far? I’d hope he/she has somewhere to go swimming once in a while.
How did they come to have a peguin as a pet? especially if he/she normally inhabits the Arctic sea?
All normal civilised people like Japan…. and they don’t need to have your arm twisted, it’s just default
Were you aware Star Wars was inspired by a 1950s Japanese film.
How many trillion-dollar movie franchises have ever been inspired by Islamic culture, uhhh ….(……?)
No, didn’t know that.
I love the Japanese people but what they did during WWII is horrendous. If more widely known, people would hate them to this day and they would deserve the hatred.
People talk of what the US did to end the war, well it was needed even though I personally hate nuke weapons. The Jap soldiers and gov’t were worse than the Germans if you can believe it.
I worked for the Japanese and truly love them, but that was 40 years later. People were evil and deserve worse than what they got. They were post war treated too kindly due to a certain US general.
The Japanese family I lived with as a student was very eashamed bout what their fellow countrymen did during the war, and they expressed as much to me many times.
Was the “certain US general” Dugout Dug?
Every United States Marine that I have met, that fought in the Pacific Arena, would spit on the ground upon the mention of that coward’s name.
Alley-hoo-ackburrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
His command of the Philippines against Imperial Japan’s invasion of same was less than robust, but the command of the USAAF in the Philippines was even worse. The Japanese destroyed most all US combat aircraft in the Philippines before they even invaded the archipelago. To tell the truth though, it wouldn’t of mattered who commanded the Philippines because there was no way to resupply them without risking a direct confrontation on the high seas w/the IJN — who could’ve completely destroyed the pacific fleet at that point w/their carrier forces alone and indeed, that was exactly what Admiral Yamamoto wanted. The Philippines, like Wake Island, were doomed from the get-go thanks to the IJN having eight fleet carriers to the USN’s six.
And now China is making moves on the Philippines.
The second largest island in the Philippines archipelago, Mindanao, is having big problems w/moslames and AFAIK, nothing is being done about it.
Is it better for the PRC or the f’ing moslames to have influence in the Philippines? If I had to choose, it would be the PRC.
China’s a bigger threat.
I find the PRC of the 21st century to be much more civilised than the moslame world.
Certainly, the people are. Not sure about the government though.
The PRC tried to stop the moslame bastards in Afghastlystan from destroying the nearly 2000 year old statues of Buddha, they tried to bribe them and offered to try and remove the statues — the moslames didn’t care. All evidence that Buddhists and Hindus once lived in Afghastlystan have been completely obliterated by the moslame vermin there.
The Uyghur Muslims in China are treated very badly by the PRC, which makes it very difficult for them to practice their religion.
https://barenakedislam.com/2019/08/05/16-muslim-countries-are-not-opposed-to-chinas-crackdown-on-islam-and-the-detainment-and-re-education-camps-for-some-one-million-uighur-muslims/
https://barenakedislam.com/2021/06/29/why-should-the-west-condemn-chinas-harsh-treatment-of-its-uighur-muslims-when-the-islamic-world-is-actively-collaborating-with-chinas-global-campaign-against-uighurs/
https://barenakedislam.com/2013/10/10/china-rounds-up-and-punishes-400-uyghur-muslims-for-allegedly-spreading-jihad-online/
https://barenakedislam.com/2018/09/05/heh-china-declares-that-islam-an-incurable-tumor-and-a-poisonous-medicine/
That cowardly bastid hired his OWN PR firm. Before he waded ashore, slacks rolled up, corncob pipe a-puffin’ and sunglasses, all recommended by his PR firm, how long did he sit on the ship? Officially, there are no records, but servicemen, eye witnesses claim that it was close to three weeks.
Filthy, foul, and cowardly. That was dugout doug.
Alley-hoo-ackburrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
His return to the Philippines was overly dramatic.
There’s three things he did of note though:
1. he insisted on the M1-Garand replacing the 1903 Springfield bolt-action rifle. If not for his insistence the US Army would’ve been fielding bolt-action rifles in WW2.
2. he engineered the Inchon landing that cut off the supply lines of the DPRK and led to their complete route from S. Korea.
3. he was also led a company of GIs in WW1 in combat on the Western front.
What a bird! Domo Kawaii des!
Bonnie, how much Japanese did you pick up while you were there? I’ve studied the French school forced upon me and forgot most. In my free time I have also taught myself a smattering of German and Spanish. Then I decided to jump into Japanese. Despite English being a Germanic language, and French and Spanish loaning English hundreds of Latin / Greek words to my mother tongue, I found Japanese really easy to learn.
What was your experience?
Yes, totemo Kawaii.
I majored in Japanese in college, then spent my junior year at Waseda University in Tokyo. I worked for several Japanese companies in NYC, including the Japanese Consulate, Japan Travel Bureau, Benihana (who sent me to work in their Tokyo office for one year where I did a lot of translating, them back to NYC where I worked for Mitsubishi, then Hakuhodo Advertising and Dentsu Advertising where I found my real calling in the creative end of the business. I worked as a copywriter for both agencies, then worked my way up to Creative Director for Dentsu, and stayed in advertising after that. I was fairly fluent, speaking reading & writing back then.
Smart girl, just wow. Japanese is a 100% different alphabet.
Example: ‘I am a man who likes women’ translated into Japanese.
Japanese: 私は女性が好きな男です。
I figure your young age and bright mind had a lot to do with it. Not everybody can achieve that.
Living in Japan (with a Japanese family that spoke no English) was worth way more than 4 years of Japanese courses in college.
That takes absolute courage, a very high IQ, and a very high curiosity level. Your experience in Japan served you well as you developed your brain even more. A great win-win. Cheers.
When I went shopping or to a restaurant in Japan I’d have to translate for my friends who were American born Japanese but spoke very little Japanese. The storekeepers would direct heir answers to them, not me. Even though they understood what I was saying, they couldn’t bring themselves look at the blonde haired, blue eye foreigner speaking Japanese. We always thought that was very funny.
Cute story.
In Los Angeles there was a protest by Japanese or US citizens of Nippon heritage against the unveiling of a statue dedicated to the Comfort Women (i.e. sex slaves) of Korea.
Who would put up a statue like that?
Los Angeles has a huge, expanding, expat. Korean population. I think K-town is now geographically bigger than Little Tokyo. K-town now extends all the way to where the Brown Derby and Ambassador Hotel (where RFK was shot) used to be on Wilshire Blvd.
I believe it.
You show kanji, which is a pictographic language, originating from the Chinese pictographic script. The japaners have phonetic “alphabets”, such as Hiragana and Katakana. Much easier for Westerners to learn.
Of East Asian languages, the syntax (order of words) is almost identical between Japanese and Korean, whereas Chinese, whether Mandarin or Cantonese, closely resembles English (or English more closely resembles Chinese). Learning to read street signs and such, is relatively easy for Westerners in Japan and Korea, but speaking the language correctly is difficult due, in part, to syntax. Kanji is vastly more difficult, at least for me, than Hiragana.
The old riddle:
1) What do you call someone that speaks three or more languages? —– Multi-lingual
2) What do you call someone that speaks two languages? Bilingual
3) What do you call someone that speaks only one language? —- An American
I used to know a Nisei guy, the things he said about Koreans were unbelievable (pathological liars was one of his allegations). His defense of the various sex slaves (i.e. comfort women) taken by Japanese soldiers during WW2 in the Philippines and Korea was similarly disturbing. Strangely enough, his mother was born in Korea, of Japanese parents during the Japanese occupation there. A fact you dared not bring up w/him or you would have to suffer another of his endless screeds against Koreans. He actually defended the Nanking massacre committed by Imperial JP, which left me speechless. I sometimes wondered what he really thought about white people and whether or not his positions on Koreans and Chinese (and Filipinos) was just an insincere act he put on for his white friends.
Japanese are among the most racist/bigoted people in the world. A lot of Koreans who live there changed their names to Japanese ones.
Only way that you can get japaner citizenship is to adopt a japaner name. Soft Bank’s founder is of Korean descent, as many Koreans were kidnapped over many centuries and forced into japan, “Son” is a Korean surname, by throwing in the Masayoshi, it became enough of a japaner name to satisfy the japaners.
Alley-hoo-ackburrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
They have a lot of problems from their Muz population, but seem better at controlling it than most countries.
What else would one expect out of the shimajins?
Alley-hoo-ackburrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
” Smart girl, just wow. Japanese is a 100% different alphabet.”
They actually use three alphabets… Well two really in the phonetic sense. They share pictoral Kanji handed down from China, but have two other phonetic based alphabets which are based on constant vowel pairs. And the vowels, A E I O U are exactly the same.
Japanese language has also many loan words from English. About 80% of contemporary Japanese words are borrowed from English. For instance, hotodogo (hotdog) or hotelu (hotel) or interneto (internet) etc.
Why interneto instead of merely “internet”? That’s because they can spell it. Japanese words with few exceptions end with a vowel. Okinawa, Tokyo, Nagasaki, Hiroshima, Yokohama, Kyoto etc etc.
I wonder if it hurts his/her feet to walk so far? I’d hope he/she has somewhere to go swimming once in a while.
How did they come to have a peguin as a pet? especially if he/she normally inhabits the Arctic sea?
I think he was a rescue.
Love the mental health breaks!
Thanks. 🤗
That’s one of the cutest damn things I’ve ever seen. Thanks for sharing that, Bonni.
I’ve loved penguins ever since I first saw that video.
Cute! I needed that, too. Lol