Ams From United States of America, joined Aug 2003, 1689 posts, RR: 12 Posted (8 years 9 months 2 weeks 6 days 14 hours ago) and read 1034 times:
Hundreds of Chinese soccer fans faced off with riot police outside
a Beijing stadium, throwing bottles and shouting obscenities after Japan
won the politically charged Asia cup.
The crowd burned Japanese flags and called for boycotts of Japanese goods
after the defending champions' 3-1 win.
Galaxy5 From United States of America, joined Mar 2000, 2034 posts, RR: 27 Reply 1, posted (8 years 9 months 2 weeks 6 days 14 hours ago) and read 1016 times:
Geez, its only a game, sometimes i wonder if its really worth all the hassle and heartache, having these international games.
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Mdsh00 From United States of America, joined May 2004, 4097 posts, RR: 9 Reply 3, posted (8 years 9 months 2 weeks 6 days 11 hours ago) and read 977 times:
I wonder what would happen if the Chinese played the English.
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A380 From Canada, joined Dec 2000, 658 posts, RR: 1 Reply 4, posted (8 years 9 months 2 weeks 6 days 8 hours ago) and read 960 times:
The Japanese invaded China from 1931 to 1945 and committed numerous atrocities in China. Japan still denies its war crimes today (encouraged by America) and does not even admit it invaded China (compared it to the Germans) Chinese people have ample reasons to be angry with Japan.
L-188 From United States of America, joined Jul 1999, 29350 posts, RR: 62 Reply 5, posted (8 years 9 months 2 weeks 6 days 8 hours ago) and read 955 times:
It isn't about the soccer, it is about the Japanese atrocities in Chine from 31 to 45 like A380 said. However Japan is not being encouraged by the US to deny those claims. In fact there have been several rows with the US over Japanese textbooks that play down the Pearl Harbor attack and play up the Japanese deaths because of the Atom bombs.
Even before the match the authorities where out trying to calm the masses down and trying to put on a lot of extra security before the game.
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A380 From Canada, joined Dec 2000, 658 posts, RR: 1 Reply 6, posted (8 years 9 months 2 weeks 6 days 7 hours ago) and read 951 times:
L-188, the US had secretly pardoned the leaders of the notorious Japanese '731 squadron' which conducted germ experiments on live humans. In return those pardoned war criminals had to hand over their experiment results to the US. Many other war criminals were pardoned in the 50s because America badly needed a new Japanese leadership to counter the threat of the USSR. But you are correct on the atomic bomb issue, I think the Japanese play it up without mentioning its own atrocities.
Btw I don't think the Chinese authorities even needed to respond to so-called Japanese official 'concerns'. If you are the guest team on other people's turf you are expected to be booed - the players must know better than the politicians.
MD11Engineer From Germany, joined Oct 2003, 13342 posts, RR: 64 Reply 7, posted (8 years 9 months 2 weeks 6 days 7 hours ago) and read 950 times:
The problem is that after WW2, though there was a brief period comparable to the denazification in Germany, the old elites mainly big traditional business leaders, the Zaibatsu, and bureaucrats) were put back into power after the Korean war started. These elites, through the Liberal Democratic Party LDP, have been running the country more or less continiously for the last 60 years and have been censoring Japanese schoolbooks to play down their role in the atrocities of WW2 and before. Even today there are many young Japanese shocked if they get confronted with the true history of WW2. A few Japanese, who were in favour of accepting the guilt, like theformer mayor of Nagasaki, were threatened, or in the case of this mayor, gunned down by a right wing Yakuza gangster.
Another thing is, that while inner Japanese opposition was persecuted and incarcerated by the Though Police (mostly Communists) in the early years of the Japanese military dictatorship prior to WW2, there was (unlike Germany and Italy) very little political emigration.
In Germany, on the other hand, there was a pool of highly motivated emigrants available, who spent the war in Allied countries, often fighting as Allied soldiers, who were able to take over key posts. Japan never had a figure like the German ex chancellor Willy Brandt, who´s kneefall in Warsaw was credible, because he fought on the Allied side himself.
Pacificjourney From New Zealand, joined Jul 2001, 2698 posts, RR: 9 Reply 8, posted (8 years 9 months 2 weeks 6 days 7 hours ago) and read 942 times:
Nobody thinks Japan is a country of 2 faced hypocrits more than I but these latest events have nothing to do with the events of over 60 years ago.
They are related to China's knowing how sensitive the Japanese governemt and society is to such protests and their willingness to bring up the war at any oppurtunity to twist Tokyo's arm. The current to do is over some worthless islands which both countries claim as their own and China wanting to weasel more cash out of Japan.
Does anyone here think the damage done to China by Japan is any worse than that done by the Mongols, the western powers, the Kwomintang, the communists, the civil war, the cultural revolution or almost any lame idea from Mao tse Dung ... Oh and 15 centuries of auotcratic rule by the chinese themselves of course ?
A side issue is as I said earlier, penis size, metaphorically at least. All Asians are inherantly racist against other Asians and no one (except perhaps the Koreans) has a bigger chip on their shoulder about a lack of achievement in the world than China. In short they are jealous of Japan, sounds pathetic I know but ....
Normally I wouldn't support Japan in this game but this time I'm glad they won !
L-188 From United States of America, joined Jul 1999, 29350 posts, RR: 62 Reply 9, posted (8 years 9 months 2 weeks 6 days 7 hours ago) and read 942 times:
Oh I am not saying that there isn't some serious history revision going on in Japan Jan.
I am just saying that it isn't appropriate to blame the US, because we have bitched about some of the shots that they took at us.
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MD11Engineer From Germany, joined Oct 2003, 13342 posts, RR: 64 Reply 10, posted (8 years 9 months 2 weeks 6 days 6 hours ago) and read 937 times:
Maaybe the fault of the US back in the late 40s early 50s is that the conversion process wasn´t finished, but, since the old Japanese elites were also strictly anti-communist, they were suddenly seen as allies. Much the same happened when the Bundeswehr and the intelligence services in Germany were built up. Many of the first officers and NCOs in the Bundeswehr back then had a Nazi history. The same applied to administrators and civil servants.
Or the problem of allowing the French and the Dutch back into their old colonies Vietnam and Indonesia, even though they themselves have been kicked out by the Japanese, leaving the local population to fend for themselves (with American and British help). After the locals had kicked out the Japanese, suddenly the colonial powers came back (against Roosevelt´s wishes), demanding authoritarian rule, because they were needed as allies in the beginning cold war in Europe.
JeffM From United States of America, joined May 2005, 3266 posts, RR: 53 Reply 11, posted (8 years 9 months 2 weeks 6 days 6 hours ago) and read 933 times:
I say let them have a rematch on Spike TV's "Most Painful Elimination" and see what happens.
LHMark From United States of America, joined Jan 2000, 7255 posts, RR: 51 Reply 13, posted (8 years 9 months 2 weeks 5 days 22 hours ago) and read 897 times:
The other guy's name is Vic Romano.
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Galaxy5 From United States of America, joined Mar 2000, 2034 posts, RR: 27 Reply 14, posted (8 years 9 months 2 weeks 5 days 22 hours ago) and read 893 times:
I knew it, some how, some one would find a way to try to Blame the US, for a riot after a soccer match Between China and Japan. Wow the wonders never cease.
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A380 From Canada, joined Dec 2000, 658 posts, RR: 1 Reply 16, posted (8 years 9 months 2 weeks 5 days 9 hours ago) and read 853 times:
Pacificjourney,
If the Japanese apologized their WWII war crimes like the Germans did, I believe there won't be such sentiments. Do Jews still protest Nazi war crimes in WWII? None as far as I saw because the Germans had apologized profusely and made compensations.
Pacificjourney From New Zealand, joined Jul 2001, 2698 posts, RR: 9 Reply 17, posted (8 years 9 months 2 weeks 5 days 7 hours ago) and read 850 times:
No arguement from me, I'm just saying public opinion in China over this issue is highly managed to say the least and that many issues are involved, not just the war history.
Japan could apologise for ever and the Chinese would still hate them (and vice-versa).
Spaceman From United States of America, joined Jul 2000, 534 posts, RR: 0 Reply 18, posted (8 years 9 months 2 weeks 5 days 7 hours ago) and read 841 times:
Japanese people are the biggest dicks I've ever known.
KROC From United States of America, joined May 2000, 19737 posts, RR: 76 Reply 20, posted (8 years 9 months 2 weeks 5 days 1 hour ago) and read 811 times:
Nothing says Soccer like a massive riot. Well done as always Soccer Fan.
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