日本の電力

[tunnelrat]

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"Japanese electric power!", says Shigekazu Shimazaki.

 

[SmokinLoon]

No, it's just Japanese Power.
I don't know what you are all so worried about, they are all near-sighted... I read it in the paper!
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How we ever won the war with this kind of brain trust manning the presses I will never know.

Once you learn the fine are of removing your emotions from your assessments of historical events you will come to understand that things happened for a reason under different circumstances that may or may not be comparable with you/we know to be a norm.  Do your best to put yourself in the shoes of a someone back *then*, and also keep in mind that we know today as "ok" may not be in the future.  For instance, if I were to say that in 100 years it will be illegal to own a dog would you think I am crazy?  Probably so.  If someone were to have said in 1765 that "It will be illegal in 100 years to own a slave", the reaction would have been much the same.   

Historical context is a great thing.      

[caldera]

Never forget what happened at "Chinpokomon' Camp":

[tunnelrat]

Once you learn the fine are of removing your emotions from your assessments of historical events you will come to understand that things happened for a reason under different circumstances that may or may not be comparable with you/we know to be a norm.  Do your best to put yourself in the shoes of a someone back *then*, and also keep in mind that we know today as "ok" may not be in the future.  For instance, if I were to say that in 100 years it will be illegal to own a dog would you think I am crazy?  Probably so.  If someone were to have said in 1765 that "It will be illegal in 100 years to own a slave", the reaction would have been much the same.   

Historical context is a great thing.      

No, I get ya... and I take that into account, it wasn't so much the ignorance I was speaking to, rather the fact that we still prevailed after the Japanese showed us just how wrong we were about a great many of our stereotypes.