The Japanese ambassador to China is dead..hmmmm TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's ambassador-designate to China, Shinichi Nishimiya, died on Sunday in a Tokyo hospital, the Foreign Ministry said, three days after he was found unconscious on a Tokyo street. Doctors were looking into the cause of death, ministry official Takashi Ariyoshi said in a statement, but no other details were available. Nishimiya, 60, was found unconscious on a street near his home on his way to work. Nishimiya was to have left in mid-October to take over from Uichiro Niwa as Japan's top envoy in Beijing. "I am concerned that when these countries engage in provocations of one kind or another over these various islands, that it raises the possibility that a misjudgment on one side or the other could result in violence, and could result in conflict," Mr Panetta said, when asked about a clash between Japan and China. "And that conflict would then have the potential of expanding." -Defence Secretary Leon Panetta http://news.yahoo.com/japans-ambassador-designate-china-dies-tokyo-ministry-043340035.html
Phoenix, why so much hate between 2 Asian peoples? They are so close with "genetics". Why they fight so much and have so much violence? Please explain this hate. Is this genes or is this for wealth?
These demonstrations against the Japanese are as much about the puny islands as the anti-American riots in the Middle East are about some shitty movie denigrating Mohammed posted on Youtube by an ethnic Egyptian. Americans don't understand how hated the Japanese are by its neighbors. Think of how the Jews, Poles, Russians, etc. would feel toward Germans if the Nazis were given a free pass after the war by the Allies and the Germans glorified the Nazis in their children's history books and downplayed the atrocities they committed. Now think of what the Nazis did over a handful of years and expand that by decades. Unlike what happened to the Nazis and Germany, in spite of their misdeeds, the Japanese were spared their comeuppance, and that is the "fault" of the United States. The United States not only protected Japan after its surrender but also poured in a lot of money to build it back up. In return, the USA got a willing ally in the region against the Communists (the Cold War) and access to scientific data on human experimentation that would never be possible in a civil society. You really have to be familiar with Japanese culture and the belief in their superiority over "lesser" races like the Chinese and Koreans to understand how brutal their occupation was of their neighbors. The peace-loving American asks, Why can't they work together and exploit the natural resources and share in the bounty? It's because the dispute over these islands goes much deeper than their little land mass or their natural resources. That's the story the Western mind can comprehend, so the Western press reports it as a territorial or an economic issue. At the same time, the Communist leaders in China are stoking the flames. China has a serious problem of an overabundance of males who are economically shut out. Better for them to focus on Japan than on China's internal inequities.