日本はアメリカの属国だ太田述正コミュのガーディアン・ブログへの再参戦

http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/matthew_yglesias/2007/08/dont_know_much_about_history.html
での論争に参戦しました。

＜ガーディアンのブログへの1047の投稿＞

Japan was a liberal democratic monarchy with a thriving economy already before the WW2.
Even during the WW2, Japan's parliament, based upon universal suffrage (not including women), functioned effectively, checking the administration and the military.

(Read for example, Gordon M. Berger, Parties out of Power in Japan 1931-1941, Princeton University Press 1977.)

In fact, Japan was diametrically opposite to Nazis Germany.

That is the single most decisive reason South Korea and Taiwan, which were Japanese colonies, could establish functioning liberal democracy eventually, and even achieve economic prosperity.
It is quite interesting that Philippine which was a colony of the US, could neither establish functioning democracy nor achieve economic prosperity up to now.

The WW2 was forced upon Japan because the racist US, who new nothing about East Asia, assisted the corrupt Fascist Chinese Nationalist Party and also Stalinist Chinese Comunist Party.
The consequenses were devastating.
Taiwan to be ruled harshly by the Nationalist Party dictatorship, China to be ruled by Mao who are to kill astronomical number of Chinese, North Korea to be ruled by the cruel Kim Dynasty, South Korea to be devastated by the Korean War, and so on.

　（注）Philippineにsを付け忘れたし、Mao are ではなく、Mao is でなければならない。お笑いのほどを。

＜1321の追加投稿＞

"Building 'democracy' is possible if you study the area you occupy intensively and extensively in a scientific way free from prejudice and also respecting the native culture like what Japanese had done concerning Taiwan and Korean Peninsular.
Read Lee Teng-hui (former president of Taiwan,)'s testimony, if it is available in English.
Simply holding election is not democracy.
If occupation of Phillipines by Japan lasted for 10 odd years without the duress of war, then Phillipines could have established a functioning democracy.
Study the Phillipines occupation by Japan if you have time and curiosity.

The Alliance of liberal democratic Japan with Nazis Germany was an alliance of convenience, just like the alliance of the liberal democratic US, UK with Stalinist Russia.
Liberal democracy and empire building can coexist.
The US and UK built empires, and Japan did the same thing.
Considering the fact that Japan and the Anglo-Saxons are natural allies, the afore mentioned alliance configuration in WW2 was a deviation of history and nothing but a tragedy.

The destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by atom bombs were slaughtering of hundred thousands of civilians and constitute war crimes.
Besides they were unneccessary follies.
(Read Tsuyoshi Hasegawa, Racing The Enemy: Stalin, Truman, & the Surrender of Japan, Belknap/Harvard University Press, 2005)

　後で、コラムにします。