tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36773120.post4174546838534484192..comments2023-09-16T19:12:43.147+09:00Comments on The Hired Tongue: At YasukuniJoe Streckerthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13848690885706346774noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36773120.post-12792520406296240812009-02-08T15:05:00.000+09:002009-02-08T15:05:00.000+09:00Your last comment is spoken like a true recovering...Your last comment is spoken like a true recovering Catholic! Does Shintoism allow for revisionism?<BR/>I see that you still have much Americanism in you, too: Your comments about Korea and China ceasing their complaining reflects your limited 200+ year history. If the Chinese and Koreans are anything like the Spanish in their view of history, then forgetfulness will not follow the deaths of the veterans and their children. The Spanish still refer to the British (and by extension, us) as los putos Ingleses. This continues as a result of the 1715 Treaty of Utrecht in which Gibraltar was ceded to the UK. I assure you, all those veterans and their children are dead (barring the fact that Adrian Paul is British). Even Americans have not been able to forget Slavery, native American issues, and the prospect of the South rising again. Complaints will continue, Americans have the rare blessing among countries to be able to minimize the effect that history has on current affairs.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18174198317116403250noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36773120.post-77648863950218206582009-02-07T08:06:00.000+09:002009-02-07T08:06:00.000+09:00Yes, the organization that maintains the shrine ha...Yes, the organization that maintains the shrine has said as much. Once a name is registered there, it merges with the other divinities to become part of the whole.<BR/><BR/>However, I'm sure that a clever priest could find some kind of suitably hand-waving theological explanation to justify erasing names. Historically, religious types have done that a lot.Joe Streckerthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13848690885706346774noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36773120.post-83264093824849793342009-02-07T06:43:00.000+09:002009-02-07T06:43:00.000+09:00Isn't the deal with that shrine that people can't ...Isn't the deal with that shrine that people can't be removed from it after they've been enshrined? Or something silly like that?Sephhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16950623837896169505noreply@blogger.com