http://azntv.com/axawards/night_of_excellence/winners.aspx

Outstanding Film: Letters from Iwo Jima

Nominated for 4 Academy Awards including Best Picture, Clint Eastwood’s Letters from Iwo Jima tells the untold story of the Japanese soldiers who defended their homeland against invading American forces during World War II. With little defense other than sheer will and the volcanic rock of Iwo Jima itself, the unprecedented tactics of General Tadamichi Kuribayashi (Ken Watanabe, The Last Samurai) and his men transform what was predicted to be a swift defeat into nearly 40 days of heroic and resourceful combat. Their sacrifices, struggles, courage and compassion live on in the taut, gripping film Rolling Stone calls “unique and unforgettable.” It is the powerful companion to Flags of our Fathers.

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I am not one to hold a grudge but the Japanese used Chinese citizens for chemical warfare testing. The Chinese still haven’t forgiven them for that.

And somehow American history has lost the stories of how the Japanese treated American Prisoners of War

And how about the Rape of Nanking?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EL3h8rTwvg

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4920138942953644691

But, no to Clint Eastwood (and I guess the American Asian Community who honored his film) the Japanese soldiers were merely defending their homeland against those mean olde invading American imperialists.

Clint Eastwood is a traitor to America who has denigrated all those who fought in the Pacific as merely racist imperialists going after the yellow men instead of the liberators of Asia which they really were.

I spit on Clint Eastwood! No wonder Hollyweird can’t distinguish the good guys from the bad guys in Iraq when they can’t even do that when it comes to the Japanese in World War II.

By the way, on the Truth Serum video, of course I disagree with the whole part accusing Bush or America covering it up in order to get access to the scientific research that the Japanese inhumanly performed. That is just insane.

But everything else on that Truth Serum video seems historically accurate. If that isn’t the case, I would really appreciate someone educating me to the inaccuracies in the video.

I do wonder why we didn’t after World War II convict Japanese of War Crimes to the extent we did the Germans. They Japanese did terrible things to AMERICAN POWs. From my understanding the Japanese treated American POWs far worst by and large than the Germans did. And then of course there was the way they treated the Asian Civilian communities they invaded. They never seemed to be personally held accountable for it the way the Germans were the Holocaust.

First and foremost, no matter what the Japanese have done, I think it shouldn’t affect football at all. Don’t bring in hatred into a game we love and something that’s totally not relevant.

But yet it’s understandable. Rivalries are rife even at club level and these two nations might never come face to face with their own problems.

Japan doesn’t want to admit while the Chinese doesn’t want to let go. No step taken by either side, no chance of any reconciliation in the near future.

And, come on. That’s a very uncool statement. What you really mean, must be, that violence has no place in society. Withdrawing politics from sports, takes away half the fun. Would River Plate vs. Boca Juniors be the same without the social and class politics that surrounds it? Would Rangers vs. Celtic be as emotional? No.

(But my Japanese comrades can at least rest easy on the football front, as our team is so bad that the Japanese NT will be kicking our asses for at least another 10 years.)