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Postcards From A Furious China
Over the past 48 hours we have written much, describing the perfectly expected surge in nationalist fervor and anti-Japanese sentiment, as the Senkaku Islands Snafu hits its boiling point - a Japan whose GDP is now declining in real terms, whose economy has been crippled by years of deflation, whose infrastructure is impaired due to anti-nuclear power sentiment, and one which generally can not afford an all out diplomatic, political and economic conflict with China, and may thus ask itself: why escalate and just who prompted it do so now? A Japan whose economic status is best summarized with the following chart:
Instead we'll let the pictures do the talking.
From brightonatreddit
Demonstrations in Changsha, Hunan
A store display in Nanjing bears the sign THE DIAOYU ISLANDS BELONG TO CHINA!.
A banner on a store called pattad reads: "pattad firmly defends China's right to the Diaoyu Islands. / We will give a 15% discount to customers who yell THE DIAOYU ISLANDS BELONG TO CHINA! in the store / We will give a 20% discount to customers who yell JAPAN ALSO BELONGS TO CHINA!"
Demonstrations in China
Chinese protestors congregate outside the Japanese embassy in Beijing.
At an auto show, a Chinese brand car is draped in a PRC flag that reads PATRIOTIC SPENDING / BUY CHINESE GOODS.
Chinese flags outside a sushi restaurant.
A sushi restaurant in Suzhou is demolished by protestors.
Rioters in Qingdao demolish shops.
"JAPANESE GUESTS ARE NOT CURRENTLY BEING ACCOMMODATED BY OUR HOTEL"
Rioters smash cars, burn buildings
Rioters smash cars, burn buildings
A man in Xi'an holds a sign that reads CAR SMASHINGS AHEAD, JAPANESE CAR OWNERS SHOULD TURN BACK NOW
Protestors rally outside a Heiwado shop in Changsha, Hunan.
Demonstrations
A pig wears a headband that resembles the Japanese flag
Rioters loot a Rolex store
Demonstrations in this location turn violent
A hair salon named "Korean-style Haircuts" hangs a banner that says JAPANESE AND DOGS NOT ALLOWED INSIDE
Employees at a dealership hold up a sign that says WE WILL KILL EVERY JAPANESE PERSON EVEN IF IT MEANS DEATHS FOR OUR OWN; EVEN POVERTY WILL NOT DETER US FROM RECLAIMING THE DIAOYU ISLANDS
Demonstrators flanked by policemen
Protestors in Chaoshan hold up a sign that says GET OUT OF THE DIAOYU ISLANDS, JAPANESE DOGS
Japanese brand cars are overturned by rioters
A woman tries to stop rioters from demolishing her Japanese brand car
An unidentified building is set on fire
The sign in the foreground reads DEFEND DIAOYU ISLANDS TILL OUR DEATHS and FUCK JAPAN
A private company has rented a bus to drive around town bearing the messages THE DIAOYU ISLANDS BELONG TO CHINA and GET THE FUCK OUT OF DIAOYU, JAPAN
A woman discovers her Japanese brand car has been demolished
A display outside a Uniqlo shop
A Honda owner drove his car to the nearest Honda dealership and set it on fire; banners in the back read DEFEAT THE JAPANESE DEMONS
A Toyota dealership in Shanghai is set on fire
Demonstrators in Chongqing
Demonstrators in Nanjing
The owner of a Japanese vehicle has covered his car in the following messages: BOYCOTT JAPANESE GOODS, WRECK THE JAPANESE ECONOMY / I BOUGHT THIS CAR BEFORE JAPAN FUCKED THINGS UP / FROM NOW ON, I WILL BOYCOTT ALL JAPANESE PRODUCTS
Demonstrations in Yunnan
And since there is still confusion over what all the hoopla is about, here is a map:
h/t John Aziz
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Ah, that's nothing. Wake me up when it says: 90% off to those yelling the USA belongs to China!
Yeah, let it happen, China. And before you know it, all those angry people will actually pull a Ceausescu on your party leaders.
Yeah well you might act like that too if the Japs came in your country, killed 20 million of your people, raped, tortured and pillaged their way in for 14 years (1931-1945).
Still attacking private citizens owned cars/businesses is fucking stupid. Boycotting Japanese goods is fine. Even the government revoking the business permits of every Japanese business in China. But burning down their businesses is total BS.
Very astute observation. As long as we're looking at things that happened in the past and were supposedly resolved, why don't we go back in time...hmm...I have evidence that one of your early cro-magnon ancestors attacked one of my early cro-magnon ancestors, so you owe me compensation.
Seriously? If you're going to go ahead and bring up things like that, why don't we a comprehensive study of all genocides and wars since the begninng of recorded history, and I guarantee you, EVERYONE ON THIS PLANET OWES SOMETHING TO EVERYONE ELSE ON THE PLANET.
Why don't we look at the bombing of Dresden by the US, shall we? Thousands of civilians killed, mostly civilians. Does Germany stoke up anger in its population? No. They get on with life. War is sick and there's no such thing as a "War Crime" because the guy who wins makes the rules.
Justifying this kind of behaviour with events that happened long ago is what starts NEW WARS.
"EVERYONE ON THIS PLANET OWES SOMETHING TO EVERYONE ELSE ON THE PLANET"
That's why Obama said, "You didn't build that."
Oh, by the way, you owe thousands in reparations to the decendents of North American Aboriginals and African-Americans because of your slave owning and mass murdering ancestors.
That's fine - I've got trillions in Zimbabwe dollars burning a hole in my pocket.
Hey one word for you, Tibet
You refer to the rape of Nanking?
This is horrible shit...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanking_Massacre
Not just that. The whole Japanese-Sino war. 1931-1945.
Unit 731 is also very dirty business.
The Japanese want the resources. Economically smart.
The big question is, if China seizes these island by force, will the US honor its military treaty with Japan, or will it side with its Chinese manufacturing base?
The amphibious warships Peleliu, Rushmore and Green Bay will leave Naval Base San Diego Monday for deployment to the western Pacific. The deployment is not related to the United States' response to last week's killing of four Americans at the U.S. Embassy in Benghazi, Libya. This is a regularly scheduled mission that involves almost 4,000 sailors and Marines, says the Navy. The Marines are from the 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit at Camp Pendleton, and are part of the Peleliu Amphibious Ready Group. The Navy says the ships will leave San Diego Bay between 9 a.m. and 11 a.m. The 820-foot Peleliu is one of the older amphibs in the Navy. It was commissioned 32 years ago. The Green Bay was commissioned in January 2009. US Navy Peleliu is a 820-foot amphibious assault ship. Green Bay is a 684-foot amphibious transport dock. And Rushmore is a 610-foot amphibious dock landing ship.
Dude...
wow... good find....
someone on ZH once commented that shit is gonna get real when the amphibs are on their way.
Cannon fodder.
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama will launch a new trade enforcement case against China Monday, using the power of incumbency to counter Republican Mitt Romney's criticism that he is ceding American jobs to the Asian power.
Senior administration officials said the president will announce the new case, targeting Chinese subsidies for exports of automobiles and automobile parts, Monday during a campaign trip to Ohio. The swing state has a large manufacturing base where many blame China for depressing its industry.
This is why I don't work for the Chinese government anymore.
the days when the US bombed the Chinese consulate in Serbia and when that EP3 was forced down on Hainan and killed pilot Wong Wei were enough education for me.
There are a lot of bachelor war fighters over there my friends.
It's not that they are doing anything different than the Arab Spring kids, or Occupy-yo-mamma, but I just don't want to be the only barbarian with a pinky ring when The Bernak canceled that debt owed to China.
I know more than a few people from Nanjing. Payback WILL be a bitch.
All of your Riben are belong to us.
No kidding, holy shit. They aren't showing any of this in the news over here in the US. We may see a major fight start in a few weeks with these two.
I guess I just don't get it. Did they unearth a vein of Unobtainium there or something?
I will admit, that it smacks of the overboard patriotism that was displayed after 911 though, so maybe that's the gist of it /shrug.
Just looks nuts to me.
I forget ..... what was the scheduled tee time for WWIII?
Sorry, no "holyshit" Are you naive enough to think Japan and China could possibly go to war??
This is what bothers me about this type of nonsense. It never goes anywhere. Otherwise, Isreal would have attacked Iran, as we've read over and over again here.
Listen, it's slanted here to make you "believe" it is imminent, just like Isreal's attack being imminent for how long ZH?? Give it a rest, already.
It would seem less staged if they weren't all chanting
Rodney King
Rodney King
Rodney King
Hmmm, you sure that's not a Chevy Volt on fire in front of that dealership?
And you Republican Americans call yourselves Patriots? This is Patriotism.
What is the importance of these islands?
(other than our penis was here before yours)
Not much.
All the oil&gas is to the south.
So...wtf?
I don't get it.
China is in a competition with the muslims to see who can have the biggest overreaction to a non-issue.
Its finger lickin good!!!
I prefer to think in terms of vaginas.
In......my labia/clitoris/nipples are bigger than yours.
Forward Vagina Monologues!
I was thinkin the torching of a KFC in Lebanon (I have no idea what Col Sanders said about the "prophet" that caused the locals to lose their employer) but your idea has some real growth potential there...lol.
That he "tastes like chicken"
Maybe with the help of Paul Krugman under the broken windows theory, they can rebuild the KFC into a KFG. You gotta do something with those goats after you've ass fucked them to death. Just think, they'll already include the special sauce.
A trillion dollar chicken in every pot!!!
Now seriously, there's something to look Forward to ;-)
So this is the level ZeroHedge has evolved to: people making jokes
about ass fucking goats. Jesus, time to find a NEW website, this one's gone,
just like everything else good in America.
(Don't get me wrong, I can be vulgar, too. But there are times when it's 'more' appropriate. This really isn't one of those times).
Well *someone's* got to give Reddit some competition in the inane and pointless jokes department. Also we should get about a thousand pro-Obama paid shills in here to lighten things up a bit. Plus this thread format in which *all* the comments can be seen has got to go, so that comments not compatible with the site bias can be conveniently hidden as soon as they are posted.
Seriously though, there's nothing left to do but joke. It's over. Just waiting for the curtain fall now.
Here's another good site: http://www.jimstonefreelance.com/
Paid Obama shills?
Come oh theyre socialists volunteers
The Chi-Com government is condoning rioting in their own country to take the plebes eyes off their own lot in life.
I'm eating popcorn and not concerned about it much...of course, if the Chi-Coms hadn't gotten in the pocket of Bubba and Loral Space I'd worry a lot less.
Yeah, but what other website is gonna let you make jokes about ass raping goats and having a monologue with a vagina?
This website is probably perfect for you, Boo Hoo.
In fact, you shoulda been here back in the wild west days of 2008/2009. It was practically anything goes. So, if you can't stand the heat, stay out of the Fight Club kithen.
By the way, didn't you see the avatar, hello......Pure Evil here.......I practically reek vulgar, or is that my stanky fingers.
I'm told that double blind tests have conclusively proven that sheep are preferable to goats.
Especially if one is equipped with velcro gloves.
ZeroAvatar said:
Some people are just a wee bit touchy about their goats.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-JGZ_LKDjU&t=183s
It's still the #1 financial blog on the internet, so I try to get in some scathing stuff in all the time.
I know the people with vested interests in keeping the statist quo, high ups in the financial world, CIA, Mossad, MI5 will junk the shit out of me for telling their secrets.
It's not that there are jokes, it's the prepubescent level.
nmewn said:
"10-piece bucket upon him"
ROTFL!!!...thats about all it takes...lol.
"Honey, I just heard the latest fatwa, put on your cleanest burka & polish up my RPG, we're goin out tonight!!!" ;-)
Are you referring to the stir-fried dogmeat, the tiger penis, or the bear gall bladder in ginger & garlic sauce?
Yes...PETA execs ánd AnAnus swear by it.
Bon Appetit!!!
Nothin' says lovin'
like broiled lizards from the oven.
Chinese are copying the American thing, like they often have ... get people to hate foreigners instead of their own crooked government
Remember the Alamo! (war to seize chunks of Mexico, and sow the seeds to destroy independent Texas)
Remember the Maine! (false flag 1898 that started America's war to steal colonies from Spain)
Remember the Gulf of Tonkin! (1964 false flag, incident that never happened, faked under US Navy Admiral George Morrison to start escalating US - Vietnam war)
---
After the 'Remember the Maine!' 1898 hoax and the brutal American massacre of indigenous people in the formerly Spanish Philippines, etc.,
A disgusted Mark Twain, the great American writer, said the US flag should be changed to the Jolly Roger, as the USA was nothing more than a pirate nation in its foreign policy
In 1964, Admiral Morrison had a young son, Jim Morrison, who had no musical interests ... and a few years later 'accidentally' wound up in Laurel Canyon, Los Angeles, with many other children of US military and CIA intelligence agents ... and they all started big hit rock bands ... The Byrds, The Mamas & the Papas and many others ... including The Doors
The CIA invented the US 'hippie' movement to discredit the antiwar and pro-worker movements, and to get America's youth hooked on hedonism and drugs ... that's a separate story
Re Laurel Canyon and how all those 'great 60s music groups' in America were military and intelligence agency children, the best expert is David McGowan -
Here is the photo of young Jim Morrison of 'The Doors' with his dad, Gulf of Tonkin warmonger and murderer of Vietnamese, Admiral George Morrison, on the deck of the USS Bon Homme Richard:
http://www.davesweb.cnchost.com/nwsltr96.html
Hey are you assholes still importing oil from Russia?
that is the most amazing account of "the long strange trip". worth a gleen. i wish he would go back and flesh out the first chapters a bit....
that's where the juicy stuff is. it kind of peters out and goes offtrack towards the end. but great perspective.
Japan is shooting itself in the foot:
Top Trade Partners for Japanese ExportsJapan exported $769.8 billion worth of products to the world last year, up 32.6% from 2009. The following eight trade partners consumed 65.9% of Japan’s total exports during 2010.
- China … US$149.5 billion, up 36.2% from 2009 (21.6% of total Japanese exports)
- United States … $120.5 billion, up 26.4% (17.4% of total)
- South Korea … $62.4 billion, up 31.9% (9% of total)
- Hong Kong … $42.3 billion, up 32.7% (6.1% of total)
- Thailand … $34.2 billion, up 54.1% (4.9% of total)
- Malaysia … $17.6 billion, up 37.1% (2.5% of total)
- Australia … $15.9 billion, up 30.4% (2.3% of total)
- United Kingdom … $14.2 billion, up 20% (2% of total).
Read more at Suite101: Top Japanese Trade Partners in 2010 | Suite101.com http://suite101.com/article/top-japanese-trade-partners-in-2010-a363316#ixzz26gwImCz1 Wait until the Japanese exporters layoff a few hundred thousand people. They just might understand which of their right wing leaders provoked this row....like that fanatic Tokyo mayor.That's right, they would have been better off buying Hilo.
If you ask me, this is a RACE issue, pure and simple.
The Chinese RACE hates the Japanese Race. That's the only way to fuel this type of reaction, race hatred.
Liberals will now attempt to deny this statement, and offer lots of explanations about how much the Chinese 'love' the Japs, etc, etc.
What!? Did someone produce a blasphemous movie about the public ownership of the Islands?
yeah not much: http://www.theoildrum.com/node/9437
but if your two and a half inch penis was there at the same time as my two and three quarter inch penis, i would totally claim dibs. i mean thats 10% more. its huge. at least where i come from.
To the north then. I got the islands wrong.
EDIT: You guys want to see something crazy? Check out Shuimen Airbase. This is what they built to secure the airspace over the Chunxiao field.
http://goo.gl/maps/l6GHw
Personally, I prefer runways that are straight and fairly flat. But that's just me.
malikai said:
Whoever laid out that runway must have been a little high, or something.
Then you must come from the island of the Lilliputians.
That would be Lillipenisians. They changed the name after independence. Perhaps you missed the small print.
UN Law of the Seas or what not - some miles outward from the islands will be controlled by owner country, including the resources.
Incorrect.
http://www.eia.gov/emeu/cabs/East_China_Sea/Full.html
See above. I got the islands wrong.
Still, Chunxiao field is small, at best.
All your islands are belong to us.
Make me laugh!
Chinese Citizenism citizen blobbing-up nature is eternal.
PS: I think I saw AnAnonymous in photo #30 above squatting on the side of the road.
+ROTFLMAO
You can spot him by the sign (in which he magically used NO natural resources whatsoever) propped up next to him as he squats, the one that says "I (red diagonal slash through heart) US Citizenism".
"Chinese citizenism nature of Diaoyu Islands is eternal!"
Chinese Citizenism citizens are parangongs of non-consumptionalizationism.
Diaoyu Islands: native home of the Chinese Citizenism Algebraic Coconut Tree.
Exponential Mathematical Monocotism
Make me graph!
That was exactly my initial thought, including the broken english.
I'm gonna take a flyer and go long on geishas right in here.
Bullish for Geisha.
Thats what I'm thinkin...self respect, theres Seppuku for that...geishas?...no way, Banzai!!! ;-)
Always best to think in terms of vaginas.
None.
Except the islands have penis trees....but wait, there's more, a solution.
Have a war.
One big ass motherfucker of a bloody all out horrific kill 'em all and let God sort 'em out war.
Bomb the piss out of one another, kill millions, ravage huge swaths of the Asian countryside, enslave thousands, create massive prison camps, comfort women slaves, mass starvation and disease of Fucking Biblical Proportions... and then when it's all over and Japan surrenders to China, they can cede Fuckushittinme, ship it lock stock and barrel over to the Chinese and all's forgiven until about an hour after it's over they'll want another war because as soon as you're done with a Chinese one you want on another already.
Broken Windows, Paul Krugman's Dream Recovery Act of 2012.
Boooyah motherfuckers!
I think the world needs a drink. Terri Clark from years past
filmed in Tokyo, apropos...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXE-vP15cug
Hittin it & kickin it ;-)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diaoyu_Islands
After it was discovered in 1968 that oil reserves might be found under the sea near the islands,[4] Japan's sovereignty over them has been disputed by the People's Republic of China (PRC) and the Republic of China (ROC, also known as Taiwan) following the transfer of administration from United States to Japan in 1971. The Chinese claim the discovery and control of the islands from the 14th century. Japan controlled the islands from 1895 until its surrender at the end of World War II. The United States administered them as part of the United States Civil Administration of the Ryukyu Islands from 1945 until 1972, when the islands reverted to Japanese control under the Okinawa Reversion Treaty between the United States and Japan.[5]
Do we really have to be in the middle of everything?
I love to have my face buried right in the middle of a vagina monologue with labia so long that I can wrap them around my head and snap the ends together.
So, yes, we do have to be in the middle of everything.
Is that a rhetorical question?
We aren't in the middle Japan is...
"Do unto others."
the u.s. almost nuked china in 1948 on bhalf of the the republican govenrment in taiwan.
Damn, Al Gore said global warming would put these islands underwater.
Some other brainiac elected official was concerned about an island tipping over...lol...I swear, its true.
We're clearly in the very best of hands, party on Garth!!!
Guess which party he's from? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITx4aFhASTE&feature=fvwrel
Truth hurts...lol...keep on bangin ;-)
The comments defending that retard are just as funny as his original speech to that Admiral.
holy ef! lol... he sounds like he's high or something.
Further context: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOTDsPiK12o&feature=related
lmao... rofl. But seriously... the fear is that the earth is so overpopulated that it will spin out of control and fly into the sun.... we're effd.
"What is the importance of these islands?"
Panicking leadership losing control over expectations of the masses, having nowhere to turn but to instigate the particularly-indoctrinated, to prop up the illusion.
Just a hunch.
Anybody wanna play Risk?
Bullish!
Crazy fuckers.
Why loot the Rolex store?
It was there. Why burn buildings? They are there too.
.
Its time had come.
Cute.
If they wanted to protest Japan, they should have looted the Rolex knock-off store instead.
I thought that would be protesting themselves..
exactly
grunt has no idea
Wrong place right time
Looks like unofficial official Chinese protestors to me.
<The Chinese leaders for looking for just this type of diversion from their economic woes.>
Recipie for war......
Call in General Tso.
General Tso's kitten in garlic sauce with sesame --- oh! the goodness tasting! Firmly of the yumyum, many happy roadside dumpings in the posteriorly afterwise.
I heard General Tso is chicken
Well lookie see, copying the Western gimmicks again, I see.
No tickie, no social cohesion.
(millions and millions of the little bastards all armed to the teeth, running amok across the entirety of Asia... best get the Great Nobel Messiah in here for prayer and moderation)
Commune-it-ty organizing.
Holy Lo Mein!
I think China is upset....
China/ Boot tossing "thugs"?
They're pretty good at this nationalism thing.
Will be interesting to see how this works at the negotiating table.
Ha h ha ha ha ha
Negotiating table...
Cry Havoc and Loose the Dogs of War...
Say, where are all them hungry North Koreans, been mighty quiet out there....
I think they're all dead. Did you check and see if they're still moving?
Playin' possum
A pig wears a headband that resembles the Japanese flag
lol...any guesses on what happened to the pig?...po fwied wice!!!
Dats rayciss ! Greenie for you!!!
Oh hell yeah, we're all razzzists now...ROTFL!!!
My understanding of these pictures is that Japanese are not appreciated in China now.
Thats the kind of sentiment you get when you invade someone's country and do live bayonet practice on its citizenry...
And more than a few rapes, eugenic and weapons experimentation...but hey!...the round eyes dropped the bombs!!!...they're the bad guys!!!...lol.
Yep, sure, whatever.
Still glad my old man made it back and met my mom or I wouldn't be here.
I worked with a chinese post doc a few years back, he was about 30 years old. He explained Nanking to me and finished by saying "we will get them back" ...
Can't say as I blame them...I've got some pay backs on my agenda too.
lol +1 for your mastery of understatement.
I love the Japanese.
The Chinese not so much.
Yet they speak so highly of you.
Mighty spiritual folks they be, mighty spiritual...
Bring on WWIII! It is time. And if you can. Find a bankster and show him "goodwill"!~
This looks staged. A Chinese false flag?
Well you sure got the false flag part right.
But China isn't the country known for those.
Just letting the people blow off some steam in a controlled manner. Should keep them in check for a few years.
.
Those are all genuine Chinese flags. Made in China, just like American flags.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBCkm9-LvRg
Bill Hicks (at approx 0:45)
Great...now the liberals can say: "see what nationalism does to a country."
HA HA HA
Whata fucking buncha hypocrites.
At the DNC, the tag line delivered by YoMomma herself was "Government is the only thing we all belong to."
That's their bread and butter, so it's not surprising to me.
Japanese Banzai Call
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZFYcJeuakg
The only thing missing from the video as a reenactment is the savage treating of any POWs the Japanese may have captured.
Next thing u'all know...the negroes here in America will start gettin' uppity!!!
And the Joos, don't forget about the Joos!
Damn uppity Joos.
Get with the pogrom and join the winning team.
Japan is owned like a cheap whore. Who do you think prompted them to escalate?
Who else raises on a busted flush?
Notice the provocations occuring around the world right now. Whose MO is this?
C'mon, ya gotta have caught on by now, um... right?
Very good call ArrestBobRubin! There is clearly someone behind the mass outburst of provocations. Simply look at Afghanistan the last couple days. Angry Afghans in US serivce have killed US and British allies, so what does the USA do? They drone strike 8 women and girls out collecting firewood and call it a major kill of insurgents. Afghans are in the streets right now demanding revenge. This MO of stoking the fires at this exact moment can be seen in Japan's moves, in the anti Muslim US made film. etc. etc.
There is an escalation of provocation of anti western forces. Not to mention the ECB, The BoE and the Federal Reserve have all JUST put in place unlimited QE and money printing. Are they putting a backstop under the west's economies just as war against Iran started by Israel seems more and more likely.
As the crisis in the west's economies spirals out of control, provocations by western elements are increasing. Indeed, Japan would not have done what they did without prior approval by their leader, the USA.
Something Wicked This Way Comes. I think it is war and revolution across more than one nation. Syria in full blown war with the west backing the rebels and Russia China backing the secular government. Israel all but demanding the USA attack Iran. Egypt spinning out of control. War!
To war, To war, To war we're gonna go!
- Groucho and the other Marx Brothers, in their greatest film, the 1933 anti-fascism, anti-war spoof, 'Duck Soup'
Here's the 'To war' scene and song:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mEsXz-Bpog
War by unmanagable proxies. Must be a (joooriginal) US idea.
Banzai attack at death and glory in changde .mp4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wc0Yqjjj5bI&feature=related
"By 7 July, the Japanese had nowhere to retreat. Saito made plans for a final suicidal banzai charge. On the fate of the remaining civilians on the island, Saito said, "There is no longer any distinction between civilians and troops. It would be better for them to join in the attack with bamboo spears than be captured."
At dawn, with a group of 12 men carrying a great red flag in the lead, the remaining able-bodied troops—about 3,000 men—charged forward in the final attack. Amazingly, behind them came the wounded, with bandaged heads, crutches, and barely armed. The Japanese surged over the American front lines, engaging both Army and Marine units. The 1st and 2nd Battalions of the 105th U.S. Infantry were almost destroyed, losing 650 killed and wounded.
However, the fierce resistance of these two battalions, as well as that of Headquarters Company, 105th Infantry, and elements of 3rd Battalion, 10th Marines (an artillery unit) resulted in over 4,300 Japanese killed. For their actions during the 15-hour Japanese attack, three men of the 105th Infantry were awarded the Medal of Honor—all posthumously. Numerous others fought the Japanese until they were overwhelmed by the largest Japanese Banzai attack in the Pacific War."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Saipan#Battle
That's how the Japanese rolled in the Alleutian islands too.
When all is lost, they banzai charge.
That's how the Japanese rolled in the Alleutian islands too.
When all is lost, they banzai charge.
Read the Hagakure. It explains why. It's also a good book.
This cannot end well for any of them:
Trade wars diminishing GDP of both sides (and near neighbors, Korea, Phillippines)
REAL wars destroying lives, livelihoods, physical assets
Outsiders getting drawn in by treaty obligations, national interests
China and Japan need to cool it off, right now, before they both lose far more than a few islands in the middle of nowhere.
But then, when did rational thought ever have a chance in situations like these?