I LOVE JAPAN. Kazuhiro Arai

The fundamental and implicit principle of US policy toward Japan has been to weaken her military and economic power in order to maintain its supremacy. Against international law USA established after WWII the new Japanese constitution that renounces the right of belligerency. USA enforced strict censorship over Japanese media for several years after WWII. It tried to build up an image that Japan’s militarism caused the ‘Pacific War’ and prohibited criticizing its occupation policy. Censorship obviously contradicts the fundamental principle of free society, which USA was going to build for Japan after WWII. What USA does often contradicts what it says. For example, it criticized Japan for not declaring war before attacking Pearl Harbor by naming it a sneaky attack. How many times did it declare war? USA is always obsessed with the idea that it needs to get rid of obstacles to maintaining the position of number one. Japan has long been such an obstacle. Ezra Vogel’s Japan as Numb...

              Americans are totally obsessed with a clear and simple idea. It is that they are number one and others must obey them. They used to express it explicitly before as ‘manifest destiny.’ Today they do not do so, but they do possess it inside and this fact can be confirmed by their behavior. This idea has caused countless disasters all over the world.               Early European immigrants to the North American Continent could live there and become Americans because Native Americans kindly taught them the method of agriculture. However, they thanked their god instead of the Native Americans and eventually killed most of them by employing dirty tricks. Native Americans are peaceful and trustworthy people. Most of them, however, live today in the Indian reservations of 55.7 million acres or about 2.3% of the area of the United States. This perc...

              Western people seem to have illusions about China. First of all, most of them cannot distinguish China from Japan. China is a country that lacks freedom of speech and law governance. Many people there are extremely poor. Japanese civilization is quite different from Chinese civilization, as is discussed in Samuel Huntington’s The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order. Japan is a country that has highest levels of freedom of speech and law governance. Equality prevails in most aspects of Japanese society.               The western illusions about China have led some countries to have close relationships with it. Germany is one of them and supplied it with weapons and staff when Japan had the Tripartite Pact with Germany and fought with China. Today’s Germany seems still very friendly to it. USA also employed unwise polic...

Chinese people are almost everywhere in the world. Japanese universities are full of Chinese students. My impression is that about a half foreign students are Chinese. They are better at the Japanese language than other foreign students, but poorer at mathematics, economics, and English. Many of them are unable to read English books. I feel that Chinese female students lack elegance. When I talked about this to some professors, they agreed. Many Chinese visit Japan for sightseeing and their bad manners make most Japanese people dislike them. Chinese are disliked in most countries including Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, which have many Chinese immigrants. On the other hand, Chinese government is trying to establish footholds in many countries for economic and military expansion. China is the world’s only country that is obsessed with expansionism today. It annexed Tibet, Turkestan, and part of Mongolia. It claims that Taiwan belongs to it. It is now trying openly to take the...