YOu hit the nail on the head there Chuck Diesel.

Why on GOD's green earth anyone would build...or REBUILD below sea level just dont have their mind right.


As far as the Japanese people go.....I believe they have alot of honor and everyone there has to work for a living. Also, many of the things that were there to loot got washed away.

 

It taste a lot like WHALE!

 

WOW, that statement, coming from our chief operating officer, explains some things around here. ......................

HO HO, had to do it, Lary - - we luv ya man. ........

InTheDogHouseAndCensoredInTimeOutFor90DaysBob

 

Do you think they treated our POW's with honor? They acted with some of the greatest cruelty and absence of honor we have ever seen. I have a friend who is 89(from Natchioches) and survived the Bataan death march.........no honor to our men from the Japaneses......I had friends who were POW's of the Japanese in WWII......no honor in the treatment of our men........while I feel for the humanity of the crisis.........I don't care to hear about honor from a society as messed up as theirs.

 

I agree with the above, Japanese were ruthless during WWII tortured our troops with piano wire and bamboo. They preformed medical atrocities on Chinese as well as our captured soldiers. Have they changed over the years, possibly. Maybe because my uncle and father still carry the war scars from them I feel this way.

 

EVERYONE suffered greatly in WW2. Its not 1945 anymore. I learned from my family what happened to my relatives during WW2. Sad. For all.
The atomic bombs on their people was a statement beyond what anyone expected and the damage the wars have caused to ALL involved will leave permanent scars both mental and physical for all involved.
Today, in 2011 China and the USA could look the other way and use their resentments towards Japan as their reason not to help.

 

No, their culture has thousands of years in the making, nothing has hanged.

 

That is simply untrue. And rather offensive actually. Japan is one of our strongest allies. If nothing changed they would be to this day devising their conquest of America. The Japanese Culture changed DRAMATICALLY after WWII.

In the late 1800's to early 1900's there was a concerted and successful effort to strip the Japanese culture of the samurai. Within the culture of the samurai lived honor and respect. Self discipline and remorseless defense of ones homeland. With the removal of the Samurai from Japanese culture, the leaders of the time were able to shift the Japanese culture towards all out conquest and the irrational thought of complete superiority over all other peoples of the world. The Japanese have always had a feeling of superiority towards others, as do all cultures, but the leap of outright domination of all others took years of planning and indoctrination to obtain the ideological shift required. Once the war was over, the traditional values of the Japanese people returned and developed once again into the honorable society we see today.

The Same is occurring here today. there is an effort to remove our foundational beliefs to obtain total domination of our once beloved, and in my opinion completely superior, societal beliefs.

The Japanese people allowed a few in power to subterfuge their culture and the result was WWII. I in no way admonish for the Japanese for their actions, but instead choose to look at the result of their defeat in their current culture. They are a highly respectable people, proud of their nation, and compassionate towards their neighbors. They are a society of individualists who respond to adversity by coming together as one and helping one another. they are educated to respect their elders as their life experiences are a valuable asset to the future of the nation.

Why is there no looting? Because the Japanese people are taught from an early age that they must EARN what they have, and that taking from others is a short term gain which is detrimental to themselves and to others which will lead to their own demise in the long run. They do not have an entitlement mentality which gives them the right to things they do not own, and did not earn.

 

I highlighted part of your last sentence. This, in my opinion is what has corrupted society in Canada and the USA. So many people feel that they are owed or will just take what they want, then blame and point the finger.

I will let the narrow of mind and dim of wit say and do as they choose.

I am impressed with how those people are dealing with their hardships and how other countries are helping.

 

I learned a LONG time ago that I am entitled to work my tail off until the day I die

 

The end of the samurai? I guess the memo did not get out to the guys with the samurai swords knocking the heads of of unarmed soldiers and civilians. And most of these swords where family swords.
Further more, Japan was already getting ready for war on the signing of the Versailles treaty.
Of course they do not have an entitlement mentality, it is just fact that all of the wales in ocean belong to them, for of course research only.
The dramatic cultural change after WW2 was to dominate the world financially.

 

Because the Japanese are better people than that. Having lived there in a town three years I could give any number of scenarios. But it's just easier to say, they're better people than that.

 

Any of you guys that are talking about location geography ever been to Japan?

I have.

 

Galveston Tx was tore up by a hurricane a couple of years ago, but there's very little traces of that. N.O is still tore up in alot of places from what I've heard. there's even people in our town that haven't thought about going back home to N.O. yet. I won't be surprised one bit to see them have all the mess cleared and things put back into operation in no time. And in a year, I'm predicting hardly a trace from this left.

 

They will rebuild quickly. Though much depends on access into these areas. I have seen them put in roads and put up houses and neighborhoods at speeds light years faster than any US contractor and builder. That speed is a testament to their work ethic, efficiency, construction standards and materials. The scales at which they build on are different than in the US. Last but not least, the kind of people and spirit the culture has, they will overcome this trial.