From: Doug Ewell (dewell@adelphia.net)
Date: Mon Dec 15 2003 - 21:35:32 EST
Jungshik Shin <jshin at mailaps dot org> wrote:
> If those 20 assemblymen have time and energy to deal with this
> foolish name change business, they had better push for a bill to
> punish (even post-mortem?) collabortors to the Japanese colonialist
> as France did after WW II.
If those 20 assemblymen really think a name change will boost national
identity and pride, shouldn't they be trying to persuade English
speakers to say "Taehan Minguk" instead?
>> Furthermore, Japan in the pre-WWII era was still relatively isolated
>> and anti-Western.
>
> Actually, that depends on what period (before WW II) you look into.
> For instance, Japan in 1920's (before the emergence of the 'empiral'
> 'army' into the power) can hardly be characterized as 'anti-Western'.
> When it comes to being isolated, I think it's even farther from true
> even with 'relatively'.
Right. I concede I was way off-base with my Japanese history here. I
probably had some sort of shogun image in mind.
-Doug Ewell
Fullerton, California
http://users.adelphia.net/~dewell/
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