Discuss internal politics of any country and the wisdom of their laws, yes, but comment on the interpretation of their laws, NO, unless of course you have studied their legal system. Local laws have legislative intentions and interpretations unique to the country where they were enacted. The Japanese certainly does have an interpretation of their Constitution different from your and your country's legal opinions on the matter.
To which I gave their interpretations if you bother to read my quotes. And anyone can comment on that. Your argument of legal expertise can be applied to various fields. If we follow that logic then you can not comment on economics of certain country nor the political system unless you have studied their system since they all have their unique characteristics.
Otherwise, if the Japanese share your ideas on the matter then the budget for the Izumo would not have passed the Japanese Diet for being unconstitutional. There are certainly hordes of Communists and die hard pacifists in Japan that would have loved to skewer the Izumo by citing Constitutional prohibition.
They dont need to share my idea on the matter. That is not a prequirement for participating in a discussion.
Then that make your case even worse. From your above statement I gather that you don't even understand the things that you are posting. Anyway, to explain to you how I ended up with my comment, please remember that in your comment to Kunal Biswas you were implying that the Izumo is an "LHA," an offensive weapon that is prohibited by the Japanese Constitution. You drew the distinction between an assault rifle and an LHA in making your point. Here it is:
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Are you saying that there is no difference between Izumo and an assualt rifle? If so then I gather that you dont even understand the things you are posting. Google is your friend, son.
Well as far as the rest of Asia is concerned it's as good as forgotten. Nobody except China is really afraid that Japan will suddenly turn back into Imperial Japan and start island hopping across the Pacific to capture back territories that they lost during WW2. Maybe you Chinese believe this stuff, not us. But what we don't forget is the lesson learned from that War: that a fellow Asian with imperial ambitions in Asia is bad for everybody.
I see that you still like to play your favourit game of pretending to speak on behave of Asia. Truth to tell your country has no influence on ASEAN politics. I dont believe Japan will return to their imperial past. I cant speak for China. I will leave the predictions and second guesses to you.
Learn how to "google," boy! Here is a comparison of WW2 deaths between China and Korea (North and South) in Wikipedia:
China - 3,000,000 to 4,000,000 (est. military deaths) - 7,000,000 to 16,000,000 (est. civilian deaths during the war) - 10,000,000 to 20,000,000 (est. total deaths)
Korea - 378,000 to 343,000 (est. civilian deaths, no figures on military deaths since Korea did not have a military at the outbreak of WW2)
World War II casualties - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
learn to read, boy! That was your sentence: Whatever it did 70 years ago is already past and forgotten, which we should thank China for (ironically the most affected by Imperial Japan's actions). .So we are moving away from the "most affected by Imperial Japans actions to who lost most people?" What about this: In Southeast Asia, the Manila massacre of February 1945 resulted in the death of 100,000 civilians in the Philippines. It is estimated that at least one out of every 20 Filipinos died at the hand of the Japanese during the occupation.
What about this: a New York Times editorial on March 6 .2007said:
These were not commercial brothels. Force, explicit and implicit, was used in recruiting these women. What went on in them was serial rape, not prostitution. The Japanese Army's involvement is documented in the government's own defense files. A senior Tokyo official more or less apologized for this horrific crime in 1993 ... Yesterday, he grudgingly acknowledged the 1993 quasi apology, but only as part of a pre-emptive declaration that his government would reject the call, now pending in the United States Congress, for an official apology. America isn't the only country interested in seeing Japan belatedly accept full responsibility. Korea, China, and the Philippines are also infuriated by years of Japanese equivocations over the issue.So if your parents was forced to that , it is ok by you cause they are not dead, thus not considered a crime against humanity? Only murder can be considered a crime? What did you learn that exactly?
You can also take a survey at other estimates of casualties but overall pictures does not differ much in that China has suffered substantially more deaths than Korea during WW2.
