The Chinese government has expressed its outrage at a Japanese town’s efforts to get its collection of kamikaze pilot memorabilia granted UNESCO recognition.
The city of Minami Kyushu, in southern Kyushu of all places, has applied for UNESCO recognition of its morbid collection of last wills and farewell letters from kamikaze pilots who gloriously flew themselves into various American ships and patches of ocean.
It hosted an airbase which sent hundreds of the pilots flying at US targets as they went about the final destruction of Japan’s empire, and UNESCO world heritage status for the collection would “highlight the importance of world peace” (as well as quite possibly make them into a minor tourist attraction).
China is appalled at the prospect, with their foreign ministry lambasting their application quite thoroughly:
“The design behind the so-called application for the kamikaze pilots is very clear, which is to try and beautify the Japanese militarist history of invasion.”
“This intention is diametrically opposed to UNESCO’s objective of maintaining world peace, and must be strongly condemned and resolutely opposed by the international community.”
PM Abe’s insistence on visiting Yasukuni, modest increases to defence spending and efforts to appoint historical revisionists who maintain Japan’s wartime conduct was beyond reproach to every public body in his power have all conspired to grievously annoy China recently – although outwardly their conduct towards the previous DPJ government so keen to kowtow to them seems to have been little different.
The government of the US meanwhile, although quick to castigate Abe for visiting Yasukuni, have so far not bothered to comment on the crazed actions of a metropolis with as many as 37,000 inhabitants.
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when did kamikaze fly into china?... someone is butt hurt when they're not even remotely connected to the event.
Id guess they are just jelly.
Oh, and that recent story of some Chinese woman's stomach exploding? That's them trying to copy American obesity
everyone wants to be an american, that's nothing new.
an evil overlord? Yeah that would be pretty nice :P (except for the exploding stomach part)
Which is really strange (if true), given how insane America is.
Even a chewed-up rag-tag regurgitated Sankaku-fied article of a real article from Reuters, and you didn't read it.
"which is to try and beautify the Japanese militarist history of invasion."
They aren't outraged by the subject, they are outraged them trying to get world wide funding/protection of something they feel should be condemned.
1 Japanese was easily able to kill 10,000+ Chinese. Japanese wouldn't sacrifice life to kill Chinese worms. Only powerful enemy like America.
You do realise that if China wanted to, China could invade Japan without much effort? Japan doesn't have the military power to defend itself against a major first world power, and if you think America would defend Japan think again, in this day and age its all political, no President would go to war with China over Japan, America would only act if China attacks its own forces. China would have air and sea superiority around Japan within the week and likely would have troops in Tokyo within the week and effectively taking the capital. You should be greatful China has no interest in attacking Japan because you'd lose quite severely.
He spoke about the past situation, retard.
Thanks Captain Obvious, it was clear what he meant. I was speaking about the way he looks down on the Chinese in general, just look at his wording. 'Retard'
You been watching too much Chinese propaganda?
Only thing keeping Japan from achieving MAD capability is moving all that nuclear industry plutonium to the facilities where they got the JAXA rockets. And before that you have to deal with the SDF which isn't even close to being as lacking in capability as the name might imply.
Get back to me when you've seen the Japanese SDFs combat aircraft lol. The F-4 Phantom II is an aging plane, F-15J is also pretty old and there's much better out there, the UK and US use better planes, the F-2 is an alright plane but Japan doesn't have a huge amount of them. All of Japans next gen planes aren't available for use/haven't been made yet. The Su-30MKK and J-11s that are part of Chinas airforce would rape Japans planes.
Not to mention the J-16s that are due to be put into service soon which look fucking amazing. China will end up having the 2nd best airforce in the world soon. After the US of course ;)
tell me when it can cross the sea without getting decimated by japan navy
only then u shall talk
@6:33
You are delusional as fuck. In a few years the best airforces will be ranked as follows:
1. U.S
2. NATO
3. Japan (after acquiring F-35's & upgrading their legacy gen 4 planes with AESA radars)
4. S. Korea
5. .......who cares
6. Russia (LOL)
7. China (LOLx2)
7. India (OMG they're tied with China LOL)
@11:02
Lol entire NATO got smashed together to be worth anything?
South Korea? LOL
Japan? LOL
Whatever helps you sleep better at night.
Although eating up bs on Sankaku should already do the job.
@14:13
You're about as ignorant as they come. Here, I'll spell it out for you.
In a few yrs. most of NATO will be teeming with F-35's. There is NOTHING in the Chinese pipeline that can compete with it.
1. It's radar signature is small enough that it won't show up on Chinese/Russian radars until 20 miles at best----far too late because their AMRAAM/METEOR missiles will have a range far longer than that. That also enables them to maneuver OUTSIDE THE ENEMY'S RADAR CONE FOR A BLINDSIDE ATTACK.
2. The J-31 (a failed espionage-knockoff of the F-35 will show up on radar 50 miles away.
(Without the J-31---which may not even be built, China is left with hordes of easy to spot, easy to kill SU-30's. )
3. Do the math. Whoever sees the other guy FIRST will win. Period.
4. NATO's Gen. 4.5 aircraft--Eurofighter, Rafael, Gripen---far outperform any SU-30 derivative whether beyond or whithin visual range.
5. Japan, S.Korea, Israel & perhaps a few non-NATO members will all be fielding F-35's.
6. No F-35's for China LOL. Nice try with the espionage, though. Too bad you couldn't steal the engines, internal structures, onboard computers or enough stuff to make the thing fly straight. Also it's CANARDS pretty much RUIN any stealth you would've gotten from the stolen blueprints. Sucks to be China.
7. Oh, before I forget....the F-35 with it's EODAS system can pretty much kill targets BEHIND IT because of it's spherical IR helmet coverage.
8. I sleep just fine, dude.
@16:37
>implying F-35 not a joke
@19:06 Sure has hell isn't. Otherwise China wouldn't have tried to copy it.
i'm not chinese or japanese but saying like japan did it so easily but all their equipment came from Russia. I guess the US did it easily too by using nuclear bombs on japan. Death causes pain and nothing to laugh about and like tupac said "revenge is like the sweetest joy next to getting pussy." A child that remember his family that died will continue the cycle of vengeance. I wonder when will there be peace with each others and forget what our fathers caused and live like we are all family. Now that there are too many of us, we dont see each others as one anymore.
When everyone is dead, then we shall have peace.
If you were wondering why Chinese don't like Japan, look no further than this guy expressing openly what so many Japanese feel: their minds are still stuck in the 1930s. They really have not regretted their actions in China. They only regret that they ended up losing the war.
Chairman Mao killed more Chinese than the Japanese ever did.
You're absolutely right, Mao deserves UN recognition more!
Well technically the young ones don't regret it because the old ones keep on censoring parts of the history to suit their needs.
With how short(in many ways) Japanese were in WWII... I doubt that. lol
Even though China's looking for another reason to be angry at Japan (and they're 100% in the right to do so), other countries aren't supposed to care when something horrific happens to another now?
So, as a US citizen, the whole Nanking this that occured is meaningless because it happened to another country then.
That's not how it works.
The Nanking thing is pointless because the time for anyone to do something for it has already passed.
If your family or you are victimized in the Nanking event then if you still think it's pointless, i'll be the first to applaud you.
@19:07- that can be said for any "tragic" event including war itself. There will always be animosity for those who have wronged you. e.g revenge, vendetta, etc. If that was the case, shouldn't the Japanese hold a grudge against the Americans for dropping the only 2 a-bombs ever used in military history?
But hey, "most" Japanese now a days forgive and forget about their militaristic past and just want to live their lives even if they were taught a altered history. im not protecting either country but im pretty sure china places lots of emphasis in framing japan as their mortal enemy in their education programs. If that's not propaganda or brainwashing, i don't know what is.
On the other hand, japan teaches an altered/omitted history which pisses off the Chinese and Koreans. But even if Japan goes ahead and teaches about the omitted history, do you think china or Korea will stop their belligerent attitude against japan? for Japan, whom i think has learned its lesson; its a lose lose situation for them.
well, tasche, "most" japanese weren't even taught about what happened during the war. it's not a matter of forgiveness, guilt or outrage if they had no idea what occurred in the first place.
The only person doing something against the Nanking rape/massacre was a member of the Nazi party.
Nothing is black/white in history people, know the nuances and you'll see things differently. The Nazis were bad, so were the Japs in the war. This doesn't mean every action by ever Japanese in the war was a bad one.
The men who flew these planes, they were deluded but they did it for what they felt was right. They saw no other way out and gave the ultimate sacrifice. This is different from strapping a bomb to your body and blowing up kids on a bus. These were military acts, very desperate ones. I think it's a sad ending we need to take a lesson from.
No one can honestly believe that we should commemorate such horrific actions which cost the lives of hundreds.
If such an act is allowed recognition, then we should also recognise the children which are used in many wars in third world countries to kill one another.
does that sound right to you?
and the overlord America's pawns??just cause they go all Freedom it does not mean what they do is right
Ach, I am ze opinion zat der UN should absolutely recognize ze Glory of die Volkssturm and all ze brave children and old people zat joined on zeir own free vill to sacrifice zemself for zeir beloved Füh...Vaterland.
Sieg Heil!
No...I mean, yeah, should happen!
oh no! They want to make their war memorabilia important? What ever should we do?
It's not a big deal to me, if someone wants to praise the hell out of their soldiers for kicking ass, far be it from me to feel butt hurt about it. Killing people is something people do.
Now, is it worthy of recognition? Not in the slightest. It's just a whole lot of old wills and last words. Nothing remotely important for anything outside of those who asked for it to be recognized.
Wanting to make your country's memorabilia important is one thing, wanting to make it World Heritage is completely different. Do we really want to give give a bunch of papers not even a century old the same status as the chinese Great Wall, Rome's colosseum or spanish Alhambra? Those are real World Heritage, these are not even at "grandpa's memento" level.
It's not praising soldiers for kicking ass. Those are letters written by the soldiers themselves to their families, and there are some which show how much those poor boys were scared of dying, and nonetheless forced to do what they did.
Such documents should remind us all how stupid and futile war is. Period.
thanks for the info
You just assumed that, and you assumed wrong. Many of these letters have already been published.
They overwhelmingly show the pride these young boys felt in scarifying their lives for God Emperor. The effectiveness of Japanese brainwashing of their young at the time is terrifying.
Worse yet, many of the right wing nuts in Japan today initiated over the internet and is relatively young. They have already expressed their hero worshiping from letters that were already out. This stuff needs to burn in fire, not displayed and glorified.
There's a cultural difference. When Germans put up a WWII museum, they feel no reverence to Hitler. When Japanese does the same, they show real reverence to the emperor.
War isn't futile though, I mean look at the wonderful World our grandparents sacrificed themselves for and built for us.
I'm sure that my grandfather's lying comfortably in his grave looking down with pride from heaven above knowing that thanks to him his grandson (Me) can go out on a weekend, snort some sort of artificial Chinese made drug (Revenge for the opium wars) then meet a nice Somalian lad who came here illegally somehow then get a good stiff black cock shoved right up my ass.
I'm sure this is what he and his kind fought for and I thank them for it.
Thank you for saving us all from the Nazis. :D
I don't really care if they want their little collection or shrine. But when they want UNESCO world heritage recognition... Might as well ask for it for the gas chambers of Auschwitz as well.
Probable sarcasm aside: Auschwitz-Birkenau concetration camp is already on UNESCO World Heritage list:
http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/31
The difference is that Germany is able to remember WWII as shameful.
Meanwhile Japan is trying to glorify its militarism.
>@ ''Not worthy recognition?''
.... dude u have no idea of how honorable it is to give your life for your country or king.
so why don't u just stfu? (＃｀д´)ﾉ
A willingness to die in battle for king/country is one thing. Intentionally killing yourself for king/country is something else entirely. Honor is for the living, the dead care not for it.
"the dead care not for it."
Such wise words. You speak as if you have been dead before, and can see from their perspective.
@07:59
Well, for the overwhelming majority of the universe's existence, he hadn't been born yet, so I'd say he has a decent perception of what it's like not to exist.
Have you ever serviced in a military, and participated in a war, possibly the Iraqi, or the Afghan war? Have you participated in any revolutions such as the Arab Springs, or Euromaiden? If you haven't, you have no right to say such things.
Looks like we are all screwed one way or another.