@Paul_Kreitman@astanley711 What do you mean by ”Brutal Sakoku””?
You know why Japan closed off, don't you?
First came the Jesuit missionaries, then the merchants, they began to trade the Japanese as slaves.
The shogun bought back the Japanese, forbade Christianity, and closed the country.
@Paul_Kreitman@astanley711 For the Jesuit missionaries, the spearhead of colonization, Christianity was just a tool to divide and colonize Japan.
Scorsese's movie "Silence" does not depict this at all.
The Japanese were fortunate to have such a general.
Otherwise, Japan would have become a colony of Europe
@Paul_Kreitman@astanley711 Now in Japan, American scholars who have studied Japan with scholarships from Japan have bad reputation for tweeting stupid and childish things under their Real Names.
During the Vietnam War, South Korean soldiers abducted, imprisoned, and massively raped Vietnamese civilian women.
The rape resulted in the birth of Lai Dai Hans.
They have demanded an apology from South Korea, but South Korean government has ignored them. bbc.co.uk/news/extra/lhr…
@shaunodwyer@SzendiChelsea@SayakaChatani Mr. Ishii was referring to the refutation of Prof.Ramseyer's article on comfort women written by Western Edo period researchers and gender researchers.
The Japanese military contracted with Civilian-Run Brothels to prevent the rape of civilian women,
not with individual women.
@shaunodwyer@SzendiChelsea@SayakaChatani If the treatment of these women was poor, contrary to the contract between the women and the brothel owner, it is the private brothel owner who should be blamed, right?
The people who wrote the rebuttal to Professor Ramseyer did not even understand this.
@shaunodwyer@SzendiChelsea@SayakaChatani On the Korean peninsula, Korean brothel owners were collecting Korean women.
In Japan, Japanese brothel owners were collecting Japanese women.
@Vincredible__ Do you know African Samurai "Yasuke"? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yasuke
In the 1600's, Shogun Oda Nobunaga took over an African who was a servant of missionaries and made him an official samurai. Yasuke was part of Nobunaga's entourage and saw him through to his end.
"A number of Korean terrorists were confirmed to have taken advantage of the Great Kanto Earthquake to carry out subversive activities under orders from the Koryo (Korean) Communist Party and other from abroad"
"A vigilante caught a Korean wandering near the town's only drinking water supply and found him in possession of poison"
”A Korean man took advantage of the darkness of the night and detonated a bomb, killing and wounding many Japanese"