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Comments on: History Is So Dull https://whynow.dumka.us/2006/07/12/history-is-so-dull/ On-line Opinion Magazine...OK, it's a blog Wed, 12 Jul 2006 19:41:10 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 By: Bryan https://whynow.dumka.us/2006/07/12/history-is-so-dull/comment-page-1/#comment-16742 Wed, 12 Jul 2006 19:41:10 +0000 http://whynow.dumka.us/2006/07/12/history-is-so-dull/#comment-16742 The Koreans would have to race the Chinese to respond, and I wouldn’t be surprised to see Taiwan get involved. The Australians also still have “issues” with Japan.

The papering over of World War II that occurs in Japanese schools doesn’t help the people of Japan in understanding why the recent moment to become more militarily powerful is not going over well in Asia.

The way Japan has handled the “comfort women” issue certainly hasn’t helped their standing among Koreans, and Koizumi’s visits to the war memorial rubs salt in the wounds.

]]> By: Michael https://whynow.dumka.us/2006/07/12/history-is-so-dull/comment-page-1/#comment-16741 Wed, 12 Jul 2006 17:50:19 +0000 http://whynow.dumka.us/2006/07/12/history-is-so-dull/#comment-16741 Korea has a longer history of Japanese oppression that most of southeast Asia. It goes back at least a century before the Second World War–and a Japanese strike on the north might be the only thing that could induce north and south to consider talking to one another and coordinating a response. It would almost certainly not be a pretty one, and equally almost certainly would completely destabilize that vital (and seething) region.

Which, of course, means that the Shrubbery is going to be walking around doing the grown-up, diplomatic version of “La, la, la, la, la, la, I can’t hear you!”

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