Anne Frank comes out of hiding to edit her book in Tokyo

[Samurai_Jerk]

I know this thread has taken a different course from the original subject, so I am just going to threadjack some more.

There is a saying in Australia - "Calling a spade a spade" which is not considered offensive AFAIK as it relates to garden equipment (as opposed to a shovel) rather than the racial slur by the same name.

But I do believe that this is not the case in other countries.. can anybody enlighten me?

That's not an Australian saying it's an English-language saying. It's not considered racist in the US but I'd avoid using it on the decent chance that some moron would think I was being racist.

I too have been surprised at how casually Australians I've met in the Japan casually throw around racist remarks compared to the rest of the Anglosphere. I don't think they're necessarily more racist just not as politically correct.

[Takechanpoo]

OTOH, one or 5 random loosers pulling a 'prank' does make sense. A lot of sense. NEETs, Ronin, and this new rather silly made up condition would all provide more than enough suitable candidates for something this nasty and stupid. Trust me, I once spent much of 6 months in the Sakyo-ku Central Ward Library studying for my Monbusho entrance exam. They're there, and they're very, very queer. The sort your bubble don't need. I mean, creepy weird, man.

If they are pure J neets, they are mostly anti korea and will vandalize comfort women related books, not jewish ones.
guarantee

[Mike Oxlong]

[Samurai_Jerk]

OTOH, one or 5 random loosers pulling a 'prank' does make sense. A lot of sense. NEETs, Ronin, and this new rather silly made up condition would all provide more than enough suitable candidates for something this nasty and stupid. Trust me, I once spent much of 6 months in the Sakyo-ku Central Ward Library studying for my Monbusho entrance exam. They're there, and they're very, very queer. The sort your bubble don't need. I mean, creepy weird, man.

If they are pure J neets, they are mostly anti korea and will vandalize comfort women related books, not jewish ones.
guarantee

Maybe it's an anti-Korean J Neet conspiracy to make it look like a conspiracy by Zainichi Koreans to make it look like an antisemitic conspiracy by Japanese Uyoku ....

[Wage Slave]

OTOH, one or 5 random loosers pulling a 'prank' does make sense. A lot of sense. NEETs, Ronin, and this new rather silly made up condition would all provide more than enough suitable candidates for something this nasty and stupid. Trust me, I once spent much of 6 months in the Sakyo-ku Central Ward Library studying for my Monbusho entrance exam. They're there, and they're very, very queer. The sort your bubble don't need. I mean, creepy weird, man.

If they are pure J neets, they are mostly anti korea and will vandalize comfort women related books, not jewish ones.
guarantee

Maybe it's an anti-Korean J Neet conspiracy to make it look like a conspiracy by Zainichi Koreans to make it look like an antisemitic conspiracy by Japanese Uyoku ....

And that's equally as credible as Takechanpoo's thesis. Or just possibly it was some small neo nazi group with an interest in denying all nazi atrocities.

[Coligny]

Wow... Hitler autographing Anne Frank's book !!!!

(I know... I know... Don't punch meee)

[Russell]

I never read Anne's book.

Because her father edited out all those erotic scenes...

[Coligny]

Plus everyone know the end already...

[matsuki]

Saw some discussion on JTV (wasn't at my home so there wasn't anything else I could watch) about this and sure enough, the "It was probably a gaijin" theory came up. ("It's Tokyo! Gaijin live in/visit Tokyo!") ..along with some batshit insane theories about the "possibly Japanese" group of vandals actually supporting Anne Frank and only doing this to bring attention to her cause They even started talking about it being a worldwide thing and it just happen to start in Japan

[kurogane]

The analyses and reports on those Wide Show BS programmes really do have a very sketchy relation to logic, probability and reality.

It's 5 Japanese Ronin student library tribe nerds trying to be cool. Probably not even wittingly anti-semitic in impetus.

[Mike Oxlong]

Not sure if this was in the works for a long time, or a quick response solution to the recent press...

An Evacuation of Jews, With Help From Japan

It is not the usual subject for a tourism video: how Japanese officials — including a Japanese diplomat in Lithuania and an employee of a tourist bureau — helped Jews flee the Nazis just before World War II.

The Japan National Tourism Organization plans to show the 10-minute video at Grand Central Terminal on Thursday, the first day of Japan Week, a celebration of Japanese culture and tourism from the past 100 years. Through Saturday in Vanderbilt Hall, the organization will operate a replica of a bar from Japan’s Taisho period, named for the emperor who reigned from 1912 to 1926. Attendants in traditional dress will serve sake from different regions of Japan.

The video, made by faculty members of the New York Film Academy, explains that as German forces moved across Europe, time was running out for Jews seeking to flee when help came from an unlikely source: Chiune Sugihara, the Japanese vice consul in Kovno, the second-largest city in Lithuania.

Defying his superiors in Tokyo, he issued transit visas to Jews, making it possible for them to travel by train to Vladivostok, Russia, and then to Japan aboard an aging ship. Mr. Sugihara’s story was documented in “The Fugu Plan,” a 1979 book by Rabbi Marvin Tokayer, who was an Air Force chaplain in Japan in the 1960s and later spent 10 years as the only English-speaking, university-trained rabbi in Japan. Some Holocaust scholars believe that Mr. Sugihara may have saved as many as 10,000 Jews.

Less well known is the role of Tatsuo Osako, the tourist-bureau employee. For nine months in 1940 and 1941, he was the shipboard escort on the trips from Vladivostok to the Japanese port of Tsuruga. He kept a scrapbook with a poem he composed — it said the ship carried “people without nations” — and photographs of passengers.

“He said he did a diplomatic role as a civilian person,” said Akira Kitade, 70, a retired tourism executive who has written a book about Japanese whose behind-the-scenes assistance helped Jews escape the Nazis. “He was not really a diplomat, but what he did was a diplomatic role. He and Mr. Sugihara helped Jewish people. We really have to be proud of that.”

Continues

[Russell]

Unfortunately, Chiune Sugihara's good deeds were not appreciated in Japan before and long after his death, because he did not obey orders.

He was a true hero.

[Taro Toporific]

Arrested man hints at involvement in Anne Frank vandalism
Kyodo News | 13:48 13 March 2014
A man arrested for putting up posters without permission in a bookstore where copies of "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank were vandalized has hinted at his involvement in a wave of vandalism at public libraries in Tokyo, investigative sources said Thursday.
The statements of the unemployed Tokyo man in his 30s, however, have so far been ambiguous and require further investigation, they said.
More...

Arrested man hints at involvement in Anne Frank vandalism
http://mainichi.jp/english/english/news ... 4000c.html

Suspect arrested (and "confesses") in the vandalism of The Diary of Anne Frank books
goofy Google Translate of nikkansports.com (2014mar13)

[kurogane]

The statements of the unemployed Tokyo man in his 30s................

I feel so vindicated. With a capital V. Even though he's probably lying.

Where's Takechumpo when he needs to get his Yellow Pride ass kicked?

If you're out there, TC, leave Japanese social analysis to the non-Japanese. We paid for our abilities. Well, actually, your parents did. Thanks for that.

Great update, TT.

[wagyl]

Takechanpoo was until recently rushing around bookstores ripping pages out of books, that's where.

[Screwed-down Hairdo]

Here's how the French "fought" the Germans in World War II....
http://www.retronaut.com/2010/12/colour-photographs-of-occupied-paris/

[Russell]

You forgot the Dutch, SDH, you forgot the Dutch...

[yanpa]

You forgot the Dutch, SDH, you forgot the Dutch...

And the British.

[Coligny]

Here's how the French "fought" the Germans in World War II....
http://www.retronaut.com/2010/12/colour-photographs-of-occupied-paris/

War has ended, get over it motherpygmyfucker...

Mitterand.jpg

Same as our nukadunce... repeat and passing time don't make it truererish...
Wrong on the first day, no matter the sugarcoating on the turd will stay wrong 'till the last day...

[legion]

That or the work of one nutjob, over quite a period of time, who's handywork is just getting noticed now.

probably this

34 year old single male

quote us
quote news

The statements of the unemployed Tokyo man in his 30s, however, have so far been ambiguous and require further investigation, they said.

quote fucked gaijin

[Wage Slave]

And what are the odds that this unemployed male in his 30s has links to the kind of nationalist right wing groups who back in the day were best mates with the Nazis?

[Wage Slave]

SDH,

I feel the need for a bit of calibration. Who do you despise the most - the French or the British?

[Russell]

SDH,

I feel the need for a bit of calibration. Who do you despise the most - the French or the British?

It is the Dutch, he hates the most.

Because they have Zwarte Piet...

[Samurai_Jerk]

Not really Japan related but hits on some themes in this thread.

France's Jews Flee As Rioters Burn Paris Shops, Attack Synagogue

France's politicians and community leaders have criticised the "intolerable" violence against Paris' Jewish community, after a pro-Palestinian rally led to the vandalizing and looting of Jewish businesses and the burning of cars.

It is the third time in a week where pro-Palestinian activists have clashed with the city's Jewish residents. On Sunday, locals reported chats of "Gas the Jews" and "Kill the Jews", as rioters attacked businesses in the Sarcelles district, known as "little Jerusalem".

[...]

Eighteen people were arrested for attacks on shops, including a kosher supermarket, a Jewish-owned chemist and a funeral home. Rioters, who carried batons and threw petrol bombs according to eyewitnesses, were yards from the synagogue when they were driven back by riot police who used tear gas.

“They were shouting: ‘Death to Jews,’ and ‘Slit Jews’ throats’,” David, a Jewish sound engineer told The Times. “It took us back to 1938.”

“We called our town 'Little Jerusalem' because we felt at home here,” Laetitia, a longtime Sarcelles resident, told France 24. “We were safe, there were never any problems. And I just wasn't expecting anything like this. We are very shocked, really very shocked."

Roger Cuikerman, head of the Representative Council of Jewish Institutions in France told Radio France International: "They are not screaming, 'Death to the Israelis' on the streets of Paris. They are screaming, "Death to the Jews." The community was not just scared, but "anguished."

[Coligny]

Not really Japan related but hits on some themes in this thread.

France's Jews Flee As Rioters Burn Paris Shops, Attack Synagogue

French favorite past time, car burning...

Nice to see that of the current conflict, business looting in France is reported before the 500+ civilians death in gaza since 2 weeks...

After all, it's just Palestinian... Who could possibly care...

image.jpg

What will be the excuse this time ? "They used kids as shield, bombing a school and an hospital was totally justified" ? As usual ?

[Samurai_Jerk]

Not really Japan related but hits on some themes in this thread.

France's Jews Flee As Rioters Burn Paris Shops, Attack Synagogue

French favorite past time, car burning...

Nice to see that of the current conflict, business looting in France is reported before the 500+ civilians death in gaza since 2 weeks...

After all, it's just Palestinian... Who could possibly care...

image.jpg

What will be the excuse this time ? "They used kids as shield, bombing a school and an hospital was totally justified" ? As usual ?

Nice try but the news has been reporting Palestinian civilian deaths nonstop. But I get it. You're French so you can't help being anti-Semitic.

[Coligny]

Nice try, but I'm not talking aboot the TV or press, but on the forum. And yes, you can now bullshit me aboot my bad english, after all, "you've been in japan for too long"..."when you start bullshitting non native speaker on their skills based on how you want to win an argument..."

And the word is anti zionist these days... Or anti Israel... If you want to be a good sheep while not looking to intellectually elitist... OMG that's antisemitic being the new OMG that's wacist...

500 palestinian death.... Your answer "ermagerd antisemitic !!!"... Keep on trucking...

[wagyl]

The photo Coligny posted reminds me of this (as, for balance, do those of the airplane downed in Ukraine)

[Samurai_Jerk]

Nice try, but I'm not talking aboot the TV or press, but on the forum. And yes, you can now bullshit me aboot my bad english, after all, "you've been in japan for too long"..."when you start bullshitting non native speaker on their skills based on how you want to win an argument..."

And the word is anti zionist these days... Or anti Israel... If you want to be a good sheep while not looking to intellectually elitist... OMG that's antisemitic being the new OMG that's wacist...

500 palestinian death.... Your answer "ermagerd antisemitic !!!"... Keep on trucking...

I posted the article here because it reminded me of this thread when I read it since this thread had devolved into talking smack about France and WWII. Stop trying to read anything more into it than that.

[Takechanpoo]

Heil Sugihara