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<blockquote data-quote="DeWoken" data-source="post: 1491098" data-attributes="member: 18948">Don't worry, pretty much everyone had relatives deeply involved - sometimes on opposing sides - even if they weren't toting a rifle.Here's a 2004 documentary in color.[URL unfurl=&quot;true&quot;]https://yewtu.be/watch?v=WJLE2pnN9WY[/URL]As they state in the introduction, Japan had a desire to kick out European imperial powers from Asia and unite the region under its own rule. Is it not a right-wing idea that &quot;Europe is for Europeans...&quot; and as a continuation of that &quot;Asia is for Asians&quot;? Imperialism and The Opium Wars were not kind to China. If I'm not mistaken hostilities were opened by the British East India Company without the consent of Queen Victoria. It's another example of corporations ($$$) running amok.[URL unfurl=&quot;true&quot;]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opium_Wars[/URL]In Princes of the Yen he explains how the Japanese economy before the war was more open and healthy, based on free market competition, while after the war it was ruled by banks and cartels - ripe for popping at the whim of The Puppet Masters (107'). Women got the vote when? In 1946 of course! :soyglad:I don't have sources for you, but anecdotally I know that&nbsp; many Koreans and Taiwanese look back at the Japanese colonial period in a very positive light. The Japanese didn't rise to the rank of world power merely due to streak of brutality but because they were intelligent and hard-working. Going to war with America might not have been necessary at all, but as with most nations there were squabbling factions. Isoroku Yamamoto, the architect of the Pearl Harbor attack, was against war. [URL unfurl=&quot;true&quot;]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isoroku_Yamamoto#Death[/URL]I was recommended many times Japan's War (the Great Pacific Conflict) by Edwin P Hoyt. Maybe it's time I read that last 1/4 of the book to find out what he says about The Bomb.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="DeWoken, post: 1491098, member: 18948"] Don't worry, pretty much everyone had relatives deeply involved - sometimes on opposing sides - even if they weren't toting a rifle. Here's a 2004 documentary in color. [URL unfurl="true"]https://yewtu.be/watch?v=WJLE2pnN9WY[/URL] As they state in the introduction, Japan had a desire to kick out European imperial powers from Asia and unite the region under its own rule. Is it not a right-wing idea that "Europe is for Europeans..." and as a continuation of that "Asia is for Asians"? Imperialism and The Opium Wars were not kind to China. If I'm not mistaken hostilities were opened by the British East India Company without the consent of Queen Victoria. It's another example of corporations ($$$) running amok. [URL unfurl="true"]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opium_Wars[/URL] In Princes of the Yen he explains how the Japanese economy before the war was more open and healthy, based on free market competition, while after the war it was ruled by banks and cartels - ripe for popping at the whim of The Puppet Masters (107'). Women got the vote when? In 1946 of course! :soyglad: I don't have sources for you, but anecdotally I know that many Koreans and Taiwanese look back at the Japanese colonial period in a very positive light. The Japanese didn't rise to the rank of world power merely due to streak of brutality but because they were intelligent and hard-working. Going to war with America might not have been necessary at all, but as with most nations there were squabbling factions. Isoroku Yamamoto, the architect of the Pearl Harbor attack, was against war. [URL unfurl="true"]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isoroku_Yamamoto#Death[/URL] I was recommended many times Japan's War (the Great Pacific Conflict) by Edwin P Hoyt. Maybe it's time I read that last 1/4 of the book to find out what he says about The Bomb. [/QUOTE]

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