interesting article........

[blackcat]

A new textbook, japan/china relations, some history...balanced opinon...worth a read.

http://www.asiansexgazette.com/asg/japan/japan02news26.htm

[cstaylor]

One thing you never hear these Japanese left-wingers explain is how a city of 12 million urban nihonjin have elected an extreme rightwing politician (or, as I firmly believe, an actor playing a rightwing politician) as governor twice

[Steve Bildermann]

how a city of 12 million urban nihonjin have elected an extreme rightwing politician

There you go again with that sensible logical western approach I've warned you about before

This is Japanese politics we are talking about here.

Next thing you'll be telling us is that Japanese play baseball not Yakyu {walks away shaking his head}