From: bilh@pd.jaring.my   
      
   On Saturday, February 7, 2015 at 2:21:52 AM UTC+8, Charles Ulrich wrote:   
   > In article <29f5d91a-c624-4cbc-a330-39a78f270c0d@googlegroups.com>,   
   >  Martin Higgs  wrote:   
   >    
   > > On Friday, February 6, 2015 at 12:08:32 AM UTC, Bil wrote:   
   > >    
   > > >    
   > > > 5. Name the FZ song in which a character who 'might be the devil'   
   appears.   
   > >    
   > > 'Titties & Beer' ?   
   >    
   > Would you believe Advance Romance?   
      
   Charles is the winner.   
      
   Advance Romance has the 'might be the devil' line.    
      
   And it's the 'lower-case' devil, just a demon or monster rather than the   
   character Mephistopheles/Satan/the Devil Incarnate who appears in Titties &   
   Beer, I had in mind.   
      
   In Advance Romance, the person who 'might be the devil' was a female. In East   
   Asia, devils or demons are just as likely to be female, male, or foxes or all   
   of the above.   
      
   Kishi Nobusuke, the maternal grandfather of Shinzo Abe, became Minister of   
   Industry in the polity of Manshukoko/Manchukoko (in Chinese Manzhouguo,   
   sometimes called Manchukuo or the Great Manchuria Empire in English).   
   Manshukoko is usually regarded these    
   days as a puppet state of Japan. The head of state was the supposed 'Last   
   Emperor' of the Qing in China.   
      
   I shan't go into the history of the Second Sino-Japanese War, a event that is   
   usually ignored by Europeans and Americans in preference to talking about what   
   they call the 'Pacific Theatre of WW2'.   
      
   In the late 1940s, Kishi was popularly known in Chinese as the 'zhaohe   
   yaogui', the Showa (the name of the reign era in Japan/Nippon) yaogui (devil   
   or demon) and was indicted in the Tokyo War Trials as a Class A War Criminal.   
   The Wikipedia article on    
   Kishi Nobusuke renders 'zhaohe yaogui' in Japanese/Nihongo using kanji or   
   Chinese logographs plus a grammar particle.   
      
   Regardless of the details of history, the people, economies, and polities of   
   North East Asia are and likely always have been inextricably bound together as   
   close as lips and teeth by geography and human history.    
      
   The prize for Charles is a gem from the archives of the Japan Policy Research   
   Institute: http://www.jpri.org/publications/workingpapers/wp83.html   
      
   The JPRI is based in California, originally set up by Chalmers Johnson, a   
   respected academic from UC Berkeley.     
      
   Any players for Q2 or Q3?   
      
   Bil   
      
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