From: miles@gnu.org   
      
   "Rastus"  writes:   
   > Nationalism is on the rise all over Japan. Look at the Yakasuni shrine   
   > visits, the textbooks, the US bases bullshit (hello - are you forgetting   
   > what put US bases in Japan?) the territorial disputes which are flaring up   
   > with increasing regularity. Even other seemingly unrelated factors like   
   > whaling is driven more by Nationalistic ego than common sense.   
      
   I donno, probably nationalism _is_ on the rise (times of economic   
   hardship tends to do that), and right-wing parties have too much   
   inflence, but except for the textbook issue, the above don't seem like   
   very good examples of it.   
      
   Japan is like any other country, if you push them, they'll push back, and   
   the increasing strength of their neighbors has led to tussles here and   
   there -- but I don't think it's fair to scream "nationalism, evil, evil,   
   evil!".   
      
   -Miles   
   --   
   "Suppose we've chosen the wrong god. Every time we go to church we're   
   just making him madder and madder." -- Homer Simpson   
      
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