[zimdog]

During World War II, the religion of Japan was Japanese Shintoism. This belief system particular to the Japanese, was the irrefutable divinity of the Japanese Emperor. He was a living God, their living god. And if you knew about Japanese culture, you would know that LOYALTY is a value very much present in their society. Remember, we made the emperor renounce his position?

Are you suggesting that religion was central to Japan's Pacific War? You're thinking ahistorically, trying to read the present War on Terror into a much different conflict.

If you knew about Japanese history, you would know that the Emperor authority was de jure but the de facto control was in the hands of a cabal of militaristic nationalists. If Hirohito was responsible for the war that terrorized East Asia in the 1930s and 1940s, why would we as the occupying power let him continue as Emperor?

Now, What do you think the religion of pre World War II Japanese immigrants living in America was? And if their religion was Japanese Shintoism, then who do you think their loyalty was to? This new foreign country, or the Emperor of Japan.

Your obvious xenophobia is repugnant. Furthemore, Internment was not limited to disloyal immigrants, but to "Americans of Japanese descent" (as my post made clear) regardless of their political loyalties. That's racist and that's wrong.

[LauraleeBraswell]

"If Hirohito was responsible for the war that terrorized East Asia in the 1930s and 1940s, why would we as the occupying power let him continue as Emperor?"


ummm Actually, we didn't let him continue. We made him renounce his divine position. He became a figurehead.

"Are you suggesting that religion was central to Japan's Pacific War?"

No actually. I never once asserted that. I'll just disregard your further comments.


" de facto control was in the hands of a cabal of militaristic nationalists"

Whoever was behind the emperor pulling the strings is irrelevent. The fact is that the state and the divine religiouse figureheard were one in the same for the Japanese people. And when immigrants left Japan (the state) for the US, they still retained their religion which as I established before, was inseperable from the state.

Read what I wrote again. Your lack of reading comprehension is repugnant. As for your personal attacks, You don't know me. You don't know anything about my relationships with all types of people.

Claiming that I have an aversion to foreigners certainly suits you. It's a strawman and it enables you to justify your small mindedness and write me off as a prejuduced party. Why don't you argue the issue at hand instead of calling people untrue names and deviating from the point?