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Thankful? No. But we are paying you back by letting you make all the cheap crap Wal-mart sells. I thought you'd be a bit more grateful.

"Cheap Crap" ?

Technically speaking, its not China's fault that Walmart Corp has invested in Chinese marketing and has selected China to be the manufacturing source of goods. I'm sure if the American people was opposed to that, then they wouldn't buy goods from Walmart, but that's not the case is it?

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Its all about market economics, you can't expect complain when the Chinese are merely taking part in that very market economic process that the United States and the West has defended all these years.
 
"Cheap Crap" ?

Technically speaking, its not China's fault that Walmart Corp has invested in Chinese marketing and has selected China to be the manufacturing source of goods. I'm sure if the American people was opposed to that, then they wouldn't buy goods from Walmart, but that's not the case is it?

Global 500 - Fortune

Its all about market economics, you can't expect complain when the Chinese are merely taking part in that very market economic process that the United States and the West has defended all these years.

With all due respect, it is also the economic process that "communist" China termed as evil. If they can be hypocrites, why not me? Here's a country where millions of people have died of starvation. A country who's people, till quite recently, used to hide in shipping containers just to get to the U.S. A country who's people, even today, travel to the U.S. on tourist visas to birth on US soil so their kids can be US citizens. It is ironic the people of that country are worried about the perceived dietary challenges faced by the US soldier.

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They killed a quarter of the Ryukyu Islanders and imposed their Yamato culture and language on them. All imperialists should leave Ryukyu Islands. China should arm them with nuclear weapons to fight imperialism.
 
This is a valid point. And the Okinawan Assembly have right to air their grievance.

Japan initiated the war in Asia , invaded/massacred/bayonetted its 'Asian brothers' and lost the war, so of course the victors ought to write the rules, had japan won, it too would have been the one to write the rules, and im sure Asia and all of us would have had it much more worse. So Japan should chill down or kick the U.S out if they can afford to and let's see.:D
U.S is going nowhere. :)

I generally see US forces as a collaborative force and have positive feelings about them and the defense alliance. However, its a very delicate situation we're in, we clearly can't simply ignore the feelings and the opinions of an entire Prefecture , and a very large part of southern Japanese islands.

I was a firm supporter of the construction of the Henoko Base and the closure of Futenma. I've voiced it out in previous conversations before, however, this was almost a year ago. And still the protests are unabated , moods have not changed. We're still back in square 1.

I don't think we should go ahead with Henoko construction if the people of Okinawa oppose it. If we are a democracy then we should consider the popular will here.



There are US troops in Taiwan? :)

Hope Japan won't regret it and start crying /begging the U.S to come back like the Philippines.:rofl: Don't do something you will regret. Just wait 10 to 20 years from now when China has grown into a matured power and see how things play out for Japan without the U.S :partay:
 
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Japan initiated the war in Asia , invaded/massacred/bayonetted its 'Asian brothers' and lost the war, so of course the victors ought to write the rules, had japsn had won, it too would have been the one to write the rules, and im sure Asia and all of us would have had it more worse.so Japan should chill down or kick the U.S out if they can afford to and let's see.:D


ha ha ha, had we won the war, my British friend, the world would have been a very different place.

A very, very different place, indeed. :)
 
Yeah I don't fancy wearing a kimono to work; I like my suit just alright - Thank you very much ! :lol:

But think about your summer trips to Tokyo , and the land you would have been to call your own anywhere throughout the Japanese Empire ! All you would have to do is serve as a loyal soldier / officer in the Imperial Army !

;)
 
But think about your summer trips to Tokyo , and the land you would have been to call your own anywhere throughout the Japanese Empire ! All you would have to do is serve as a loyal soldier / officer in the Imperial Army !

;)

Sooner or later we would've staged a coup and repopulated Japan with Pakistanis ! :sarcastic:

@Nihonjin1051 - I was watching the movie 'Letters from Iwo Jima' and init Japan was referred to as Nippon - Why is Japan then called as Japan ? :undecided:
 
Why is Japan then called as Japan ? :undecided:

As mentioned above, the English word "Japan" has a circuitous derivation; but linguists believe it derives in part from the Portuguese recording of the early Mandarin Chinese or Wu Chinese word for Japan: Cipangu (日本国), which is rendered in pinyin as Rìběnguó, and literally translates to "country of sun origin". Guó is Chinese for "realm" or "kingdom", so it could alternatively be rendered as "Japan-guó".

Cipangu was first mentioned in Europe in the accounts of the travels of Marco Polo. It appears for the first time on a European map with the Fra Mauro map in 1457, although it appears much earlier on Chinese and Korean maps such as the Kangnido. Following the accounts of Marco Polo, Cipangu was thought to be fabulously rich in silver and gold, which in Medieval times was largely correct, owing to the volcanism of the islands and the possibility to access precious ores without resorting to (unavailable) deep-mining technologies.

The modern Shanghainese pronunciation of Japan is Zeppen. In modern Japanese, Cipangu is transliterated as ジパング which in turn can be transliterated into English as Jipangu, Zipangu, Jipang, or Zipang. Jipangu (ジパング)

This carried out and the English coined the term "Japan" from that. Hence now Japan is known as 'Japan' in the English speaking world.

In other word, blame the English ! These crazy English! :devil::mad:

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As mentioned above, the English word "Japan" has a circuitous derivation; but linguists believe it derives in part from the Portuguese recording of the early Mandarin Chinese or Wu Chinese word for Japan: Cipangu (日本国), which is rendered in pinyin as Rìběnguó, and literally translates to "country of sun origin". Guó is Chinese for "realm" or "kingdom", so it could alternatively be rendered as "Japan-guó".

Cipangu was first mentioned in Europe in the accounts of the travels of Marco Polo. It appears for the first time on a European map with the Fra Mauro map in 1457, although it appears much earlier on Chinese and Korean maps such as the Kangnido. Following the accounts of Marco Polo, Cipangu was thought to be fabulously rich in silver and gold, which in Medieval times was largely correct, owing to the volcanism of the islands and the possibility to access precious ores without resorting to (unavailable) deep-mining technologies.

The modern Shanghainese pronunciation of Japan is Zeppen. In modern Japanese, Cipangu is transliterated as ジパング which in turn can be transliterated into English as Jipangu, Zipangu, Jipang, or Zipang. Jipangu (ジパング)

This carried out and the English coined the term "Japan" from that. Hence now Japan is known as 'Japan' in the English speaking world.

In other word, blame the English ! These crazy English! :devil::mad:

Thats complicated ! :o:


Is Mikey here really English ? :unsure:

Oi Mikey you owe me your gratitude as my Grandpa - in the British Indian Army - kicked @Nihonjin1051 's Grandpa's butt during WW2 ! :smokin:

Or was it the other way around..the Japanese were almost at the borders of British India ! :undecided:
 

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