I do not like the Japanese, because of their history. I will not buy anything with a Japanese name on it, no cars, TV’s or anything…if I can possibly help it. Why? Because of Japanese history, and all the things they have done, which brand them, to me, as brutal, and not worth my time and patronage. Am I being stupid, jumping to conclusions, or being prejudiced and unfair? Maybe, but let’s go back to 1937, and see what they did to China.
In July 1937, Japan accused China of firing on it at the Marco Polo Bridge, near Beijing. It didn’t happen, but using this as an excuse, Japan began a full scale invasion of China, using Manchuria, which they had conquered, as a launching place for their troops. The peace loving Chinese offered little to no resistance. By November, Shanghai had fallen, and in December, the capital Nanking was occupied and virtually destroyed. The so-called “Rape of Nanking,” has gone into history books as ’one of the most shocking incidents in modern history.’ The final death toll for Nanking was in excess of 250,000. Within five months, one million Chinese were under Japanese control, all major cities had been captured, and control of all communications media had been taken. By 1941, when Japan bombed Pearl Harbor, over two million Japanese soldiers were in occupied China.
There is no need to go into the bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, as the evidence is still there, with the battleship Arizona still leaking oil… a drop or two coming to the surface every few minutes. In World War Two, American troops captured by Japs, were beheaded, and given the most cruel, inhuman treatment imaginable, as told by the few survivors who managed to stay alive by extremely good luck, or being saved by American troops. Japanese soldiers used captured Korean women as their sex slaves, thousands of times during the war, and naturally, the Koreans hate the Japanese, with good reason. The Japanese worship of their emperor was legend, with Macarthur seeing to it that this ceased with the signing of the surrender in 1945 on the battleship Missouri. Jap pilots flew kamikaze missions hundreds of times. Knowing they were giving their lives to their emperor, they flew head long into American ships, and even Red Cross labeled ships. The two atom bombs which were dropped on Japan, finally made them surrender, even though they had, for all practical purposes, lost it on June 4 -7, 1942 at the Battle of Midway. Military Historian John Keegan calls that battle, “The most stunning and decisive blow in the history of naval warfare.” In that battle, Japan thought they could lure Americans into a trap, occupy Midway Island, and use it as a base. It didn’t work. They lost four of the aircraft carriers used in the bombing of Pearl Harbor. They were the “Akagi,” the “Kaga,” “Soryu,” and “Hiryu.” After that, Japan couldn’t manufacture ships and arms nearly as fast as we were destroying them, so they had lost, just as Hitler had lost WW II, when he attacked Russia, but didn’t realize it. Japan didn’t realize they had lost either, so four more years of brutal warfare had to follow…unfortunately. Japan occupied the Philippines and treated them brutally, so the have no love for the Japanese either, even today.
After the war, thanks to the inane, costly, absurd, Marshal Plan, America rebuilt Japan, with the most modern steel mills and manufacturing plants. Ours were worn out because of the war! When, in all of history, has the winner, rebuilt the loser after a war??? Japan bought a German Leica camera, and copied it exactly, to the utmost detail, and called it a “Canon.” The Japanese have always been expert copiers, but lousy inventors. Cameras were only the beginning. They copied the American invented transistor, plus myriad other American inventions and patents, never once paying a royalty. Japanese TV sets, and various electronic devices, copied from American ones, and produced with cheap labor, flooded American stores, bankrupting American businesses and manufacturers. Mitsubishi corporation, which built the Jap “Zero” fighter planes in WW II, built and builds cars today, but I won’t forget. I don’t care how good Toyotas are, and even if some are built in America, with parts imported from Japan. The profits go back to Tokyo, and I won’t forget WW II.
Japan now, is printing money as fast as printing presses can turn it out, and the newly elected prime minister says he can bring back the Japanese economy by spending money. Endless money, a-la-Obama, and make it all OK, but it won’t work any better than did the battle of Midway. What will happen to Japan, is hyper-inflation. The world’s paper money presses, will eventually doom all paper monies, but the yen will go first, due to their utter economic idiocy. The euro will go second, since out of the 17 Euro nations, more than half of them are in dire economic straits, which printing press euros will give only temporary help. The dollar is still the world’s ’reserve currency,’ and even though that status is threatened, the constantly de-valuing dollar will be the last to go, in spite of Congressional senselessness on both sides of the aisle.
All the world is economically self-destructing, thanks to the world’s total usage of un-backed paper currencies, which are being printed to pay various government foolish welfare, purchases and spending. America, Japan, Portugal, Ireland, Spain, Greece, The Netherlands, etc, are all doing what the Japanese call ’hari-kiri,’ and we spell it hari kari, but it means suicide, and in the economic sense, a very slow one. Universal, un-backed money, spent foolishly, as all governments are wont to do, is universal taxation on everyone, because all monies continually lose purchasing power due to inflation. How can it end? I have no crystal ball, but all the signs, point to disaster. Maybe not in my lifetime, I’m 79, but eventually. Gold and silver have been real money throughout all of history, in all nations, and are self valued, in spite of governments and bankers manipulating them, which can’t go on forever. Buy low, as they are now!