Posted on 05/26/2005 8:12:52 AM PDT by AmericanInTokyo
Edited on 05/27/2005 12:51:25 AM PDT by Sidebar Moderator. [history]
This puts the Cool-Whip survivalists of America to shame.
see that just proves that you don't need democrats to take care of you from womb to tomb to live to be old.
see that just proves that you don't need democrats to take care of you from womb to tomb to live to be old.
Tour guide says may have seen Japanese stragglers
Posted 07:14pm (Mla time) May 28, 2005 By Jeoffrey Maitem
Inquirer News Service
GENERAL SANTOS CITY -- An account by a Filipino-Japanese octogenarian, who worked as a tour guide for visiting Japanese nationals in South Cotabato province, might give more credence to reports about the presence of Japanese stragglers in Central Mindanao.
Mary Kawai, who speaks fluent Nihongo, said that two years ago, a B'laan native, whom she met previously, and two Japanese-looking individuals about her age came to her house in Barangay (village) Silway here to ask for help.
She said the visitors had told her they were starving.
Kawai said she invited them inside and was surprised to see that the B'laan's companions, who sported ponytails, removed their slippers.
"So I asked them if they wanted kohe [coffee]. They nodded," she said.
Kawai said when she asked if the two Japanese-looking men spoke Nihongo, they stared at each other before gesturing they did not.
"But I was suspecting they were Japanese," she said. Kawai said before the visitors left, the two Japanese-looking men hugged her tight.
Commenting on reports about the presence of two Japanese stragglers--reports that are being confirmed by Japanese officials--Kawai said there could be some truth to it.
She said that her friends from the Filipino-Japanese community in Tupi town, South Cotabato have said that there were at least four members of the defunct Japanese Imperial Army seen in the area.
Tupi hosts a Japanese shrine and some tunnels built by Japanese soldiers during World War II.
Inquirer Mindanao Bureau
http://news.inq7.net/breaking/index.php?index=2&story_id=38447
Japanese journalist loses $20,000 at airport
THE LAST time Japanese journalist Akira Maki saw his black bag with 20,000 dollars inside it was when he placed it on the x-ray feeder at the Manila Domestic Airport in Pasay City. The bag never came out.
Maki, 45, a correspondent for the Tokyo Broadcasting System (TBS), was to take an Air Philippines flight via Cagayan de Oro City to General Santos City Saturday morning to cover the news on two reported World War II Japanese stragglers.
Manila International Airport Authority (MIAA) general manager Alfonso Cusi immediately ordered a thorough investigation of the incident.
The last documented surrender was Sergeant Soichi Yokoi who hid in the jungles of Guam between 1944 and 1975 unaware that World War II had ended. The Guam tourism association brought him back on a paid honeymoon and his cave is one of the destinations of Japanese and other tourists.
Regarding culture change...
"[Before the war, Japanese women were] virtuous, and obedient to the commands of menfolk, lovely to look at, gentle and retiring...[Now, they are] monsters whose virtue is all but gone from them, and who screech like apes."
--Japanese holdout soldier Shoichi Yokoi, captured on Guam, 24 January 1972 
That would be Shoichi Yokoi, who lived until 1997. He was reportedly quite disturbed at the changes that had occurred during his absence from Japan: "The glories of nature that I used to know have all disappeared. Instead up in the sky we have this thing called smog. On Earth, cars are killing more people than the war."
Not if they were deserters.
I'm believing the story more now that I hear they "went native."
France lost 250.000 people in Battle in WW2.
Does that include those who were lost while fighting for the Nazis against Americans and Brits? I don't dispute the bravery of many French. Many seem to have been killed off after Napoleon...many of those remaining seem to have been lost in WWI and 1940.
You disgrace thier memory of a country that guaranteed Poland's security.
Guaranteed their secure place under Soviet rule for decades.
Germany ran over Poland in 4 weeks and then shifted her forces to the French frontier. Germanies Blitzkrieg or lightning war of massed tanks supported by air power and infrantry enabled her to pierce through the French AND BRITISH lines; defeating France and forcing Britain off the European continent.Because the bulk of France is very close to Germany resistance to the German Blitzkrieg was impossible. Other surrendernicks Austria; Czeckslovkia; Poland; Norway; Netherlands; Holland; Denmark.
France had the world's LARGEST army in the world at the time, yet relied quite strongly on the BEF and the RAF. The Brits weren't so much overrun as surrounded (Dunkirk) because of the collapse Belgium--and the French did fight fearlessly in many cases (e.g., Lille)--but the fact is that further resistance could have occurred.
As German tanks were crushing German youth in the front lines in the closing days of WW2 maybe the Germans should have surrendered EARLIER.
The analogy is spurious. German surrender would have ended the war sooner. French surrender (and Vichification) extended the war further. The only ones it helped were the French. Heck, had the Western Front been still fighting, perhaps Hitler couldn't have launched Barbarossa...perhaps Poland could have been liberated...not sacrificed.
I guess it wasn't YOUR SON under those tank tracks.
I think you hit the key right here. Perhaps the French are as selfish as can be, without a sense of self-sacrifice, altruism, or principle to rise above short-sighted self-interest. As much as the attempt is made to portray Americans as provincial and acting purely in self-interest, I think a nearly universal thought amongst us is the desire to bring good to others. We act in principled self-interest.
"So Sorry, My Island Now"
And how about the Twilight Zone episode?
thanks.
I can identify with that, but not necessarily with Japanese women.
Please kindly try to limit it that that please. We can discuss Soviet, French, British History on some other thread and debate it there. Please respect this etiquette. Thank you.
UPDATE (11:00 a.m. Eastern Saturday):
The Japanese who is the go- between for Japanese embassy in Philippines and the guerillas who control the mountain area where Nakauchi and Yamakawa and others are, have received a payoff from him and said the men will be allowed out. It is expected they would turn themselves over to the Japanese embassy personnel in General Santos city within "several days", according to Japanese report I just read.
If you are referring to the American TV show "Survivor" it is the dumbest, culturally blind and stupid TV show. Nearly 1/3 the people riding on this same planet with you and me, themselves live in "Survivor-like" conditions, and can't come back to a modern world after three weeks....and they don't bitch or complain or brag about it or get awards.
Kyodo News network 28 May Saturday
No, no, not the Survivor show, but sorry for being too vague. I guess you CAN'T read my mind :-)
I searched for a recipe for a certain kind of cake the other day on Google. I found it, in all places, on a Claire Wolfe related site. Claire stridently preaches depend on yourselfism. The recipe calls for Cool Whip. What wimpiness -- not cream that you have skimmed yourself from your own cow's milk and that you have sweetened with sugar boiled from your own maple tree and have beaten to stiff peaks in a bowl you carved from a tree stump with a whisk made of some woody plant? (OK, so I'm belaboring the illustration. The point being that God doesn't want mankind to bow out of civilization out of principle. He wants men to live a life of saving faith in Christ right where they are and be thankful for what He provides, where He provides it.)
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