Japan was an evil empire up until 1950. They joined Hitler and cowardly attacked the United States. The US then declared war on Japan and not only won that war despite Japan commiting many atrocities against US prisoners of war, we basically destroyed most of the island of Japan. Why should we admire Japan? They since reconciled and apologized greatly to the US as well as the world and became a great Allie of the US. Japan was decimated and in just 35 years they became an economic powerhouse and have one of the strongest economies in the world despite those harsh set backs. Amazing!’! Juxtapose Japan with most of the countries in Africa. Almost every country in Africa is almost as backwards as it was 100 years ago and things don’t seem to be getting any better. How does Japan not only rebuild and become an economic powerhouse in under 35 years but most of Africa despite having great resources and a coast line continue to be going backwards? Why is that? In fact most countries in Africa are amongst the most impoverished and dangerous in the world. If anyone has an excuse to be impoverished it would of been Japan but they excelled , it’s amazing ! I hate to say it but many blacks behind the scenes admit that had their great great great grandparents not been taken to the US, most blacks would be living in abject poverty in Africa, much worse than the poverty some experience here. In fact, black communities in the US are some of the most dangerous in the world and it’s not due to racism, again I defer to Africa where it’s majority black. We need to find out why? If Japan can do it why can’t most of Africa ? Liberals will say “ its complex”. No it’s not !
Maybe because it is... A...Too damned hot, with much of the continent arid deserts and grasslands with no infrastructure, and super-thick jungle... and B...Population density on the continent. There's a reason there are not booming industrial cities in most of Australia. Not much water in the outback. Same model. Japan is a small chain of islands surrounded by water. Water and the food within it are valuable resources which Africa and Australia do not have relative to Japan's size and population density?
The USA built Japan into the economic powerhouse we all know today. And they have been great partners!
The Mouse That Roared -- a movie about a small country that declares war on the U.S. in hopes of getting all the benefits. "There isn't a more profitable undertaking for any country than to declare war on the United States and to be defeated."
Mazie Hirono, the current Senator from Hawaii, was born into poverty in Japan to a former Japanese soldier who was an abusive and crooked shit-bum which led to a totally disintegrated family. Eventually Mazie emmigrated to Hawaii with her mother or grandmother or the like, became a citizen over time, graduated from university. and then on to Georgetown University law school, and eventually on to the United States Senate. A great accomplishment and a tribute to the goodness of America. And now -for reasons known only to the loons- she apparently hates everything about America and never loses a chance to let us know what a big disappointment it is. Angry, sour, and bitched-out.
crack a book fucktard...U.S. did a reconstruction in Japan after winning the war...they didnt rise out of the ashes of Hiroshima and bombing of Tokyo all on their own.
I just wish that one day, maybe within the next 100 years, countries in Africa will get their shit together and same goes for black communities here in America .