On 9/11/2015 12:55 PM, dsi1 wrote:
> On Thursday, September 10, 2015 at 10:03:25 PM UTC-10, Alan Holbrook wrote:
>> gtr > wrote in news:2015091008285156154-xxx@yyyzzz:
>>
>>> .
>>>
>>> I've never heard or seen a Japanese person "explode" or scream, and
>>> have been there a lot. But I'm sure it happens. Especially at
>>> restaurants in tourist areas--like Kamakura.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Yep, very, very unusual, but it happened. In two years in Japan, it only
>> happened one other time, when we were walking around in Tokyo. We passed
>> an old man in a WWII Japanese army uniform who started yelling loudly at us
>> when he saw our USN uniforms. The other Japanese people around him seemed
>> quite embarrased by his behavior, and several of them tried to hush him.
>>
>> Overwhelmingly, the Japanese people I met during two years in Yokosuka were
>> invariably polite and genuinely friendly. It was a great experience.
>
> My dad was in Japan in 1946 as part of the occupation forces. He said the people in the street would move out of the way when he walked down the street in uniform. Their defeat was total and they would look down on the ground when he passed them. He said it was the most pitiful thing he ever saw.
>

Wow.

I wonder if the Germans were as chastened as a nation.