NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #31/NN_1992_31.iso/spool/sci/environm/13946

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From: [e-mail] (Carl J Lydick)
Newsgroups: sci.environment
Subject: Re: Idiotic Japan Bashing
Date: 28 Dec 1992 23:04:03 GMT
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In article <[e-mail]>, [e-mail] (Louis Schmittroth) writes:
=[e-mail] (John McCarthy) writes:
=
=
=>I would imagine that Japan's 1938 100 year plan would have been based
=>on the use of Manchukuo (their name for Manchuria or Liaoning) and
=>probably on further conquests in China and maybe in the Soviet Far
=>East.  Not much salvageable from that plan.
=
=Excuse the use of bandwith on sci.environment, but I have a rejoinder:
=
=In 1857, when the competition between Japan and the United States began,
=the shogun's adviser, Masayoshi Hotta, observed:
=
=    I am therefore convinced that our policy should be to stake
=    everything on the present opportunity, to conclude friendly
=    alliances, to send ships to foreign countries everywhere and
=    conduct trade, to copy the foreigners where they are at their
=    best and so repair our own shortcomings, to foster our national
=    strength and complete our armaments, and so gradually subject
=    the foreigners to our influence until in the end all the
=    countries of the world know the blessings of perfect tranquility
=    and our hegemony is acknowledged throughout the world.
=
=This is quoted on page 113 in "Trading Places,"  by Clyde Prestowitz, a
=must read for anyone interested in the US -- Japan trade deficit, and
=the resulting colonizing of America by the Japanese.

You call *THAT* a *PLAN*?  It certainly qualifies as a rule of thumb, but to
call it a plan is stretching things pretty far.
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