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Quote by: tusaki I agree with you to a certain point, Logjam. The media always wants controversy, because that sells. But the opposite is also true, the populace being loving and understanding of you will come to you. The rest will try to stay away. In Japan, there is talk about the closing of military basis every year. Not because they love you so much, nor because they really hate you. Do you understand? |
We have pulled out of much of Okinawa. I don't think that we have a plan to pull out of Japan. The Japanese want us there to beef up their defense.
As for the people who don't like us presenting themselves to us, well that may be correct in part. But many of us met Japanese in stores, on the trains and in the public baths. They did not make an effort to come up to us, we were just together, and we got along just fine.
I'll tell you though who is genuinely hated in South East Asia; it's the Japanese. The Philippinos and Koreans absolutely hate them. They haven't forgotten. At the end of WWII the Japanese expected us to behave to them as they had behaved to the Chinese. They were shocked when we treated them with understanding and affection.
We are a good, kind, and understanding people you see; and we are better than most.