Die sangokujin die!

[Taro Toporific]

I've always wondered about the "why" of the massacre. It is never explained, leaving the misplaced feeling that the motivation for the killings was to appease the gods (Japanese ain't that religious to care).

Diary shows rare account of Koreans in 1923 Tokyo quake
TOKYO, AP--2005/7/4
A recently discovered diary written by an assemblyman more than 80 years ago provides a rare glimpse into attacks on Korean residents of Tokyo after a massive earthquake struck the city in 1923....
Japanese mobs accused Koreans of poisoning wells and setting fires following the 8.3-magnitude quake on Sept. 1, 1923. More than 140,000 people were killed in the quake and subsequent fires while historians estimate that 6,000-10,000 Koreans died, many in the ensuing violence.
.... a diary by Utao Watanabe, an assemblyman in Tsurumi, near Tokyo, said rumors were spreading about "a gang of Koreans looting across the town and killing Japanese who resisted," the Mainichi newspaper reported.
Watanabe concluded that the rumors were baseless and demanded that the local police chief expel Koreans fr0m the town for their safety.

[blackcat]

"We should be ashamed of it,"

eerrr yes should be. But Japan isnt ashamed of anything they do

because

IT DIDNT HAPPEN

or if it did not that bad
or well happens everywhere
or you! japan basher!

[Taro Toporific]

"We should be ashamed of it,"
eerrr yes should be. But Japan isnt ashamed of anything they do
because
IT DIDNT HAPPEN
or if it did not that bad
or well happens everywhere
or you! japan basher!

Hee, hee, a good one blackcat. The massacre of Koreans is one one the more bizzare aspects of Japanese history. You would think that the last thing Japanese would want to during the rescue and rebuilding is the chase after their Korean neighbors.
I've worked as disaster volunteer for the Red Cross several times. People of all backgrounds pull together in floods, tornadoes and huricanes in the States (except looters). What went wrong with the Japanese?

[nullpointer]

What went wrong with the Japanese?

Nothing went wrong. They have been like this forever. Mind your own business and let the rest of the world die combines with it can't happen to us results in maintaining the "wa".

[Greji]

The word sankokujin is an interest fact in itself. Initially, the word was derived from our usage of it in English. A "Third Country National". I have been told be several quite responsible authorities from both academia and the NPA, that it was not until the end of WWII that it took on its derogatory meaning.

The reason for this was that at that time when Korea and Taiwan were deprived of the their exalted status as members of the Empire of Imperial Japan, the residents of Japan proper from those nation states lost their Japanese citizenship. This was translated all the way down to include members of the organized gangs. Consequently, since they were no longer Japanese, they were not entitled to all the perks of gang membership and they had to turn in their official ganster cards.

These rejected and dismissed members then formed their own gang called the Sangoku Gumi. At one time during the occupation time period, they alledgedly wielded a lot of power in the gangland circles and businesses. They were eventally subdued through numerous confrontations with the Japanese gangs and the police, sometimes in concerted efforts, until the Sangoku Gumi ceased to exist.

So since that time, the term Sankokujin has had the yakuza and lower class meaning as a derogatory term. Since it referred primarily to the former subserveant states, it was it was only natural that it should be selected as the word of choice for the in-crowd, such as Blinky and friends, to be selected for use when baiting Chinese and Koreans.

[amdg]