On 9/11/2015 1:47 PM, dsi1 wrote:
> On 9/11/2015 9:03 AM, Kokopelli wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Hitler, Hirohito, Roosevelt, Stalin - only one of them was generally
> regarded as a God. If you want to thoroughly defeat a country, take away
> their God. In this way, you'll also remove all their hopes and dreams.


That's an observation that resonates.