‘People must learn to listen to one another and resolve their differences in a wise and peaceful manner.’ Mr Yu Chang Xiang – survivor of the Nanjing Massacre.
Tag: Japanese racism
Interpreting Ch’an – Basic Errors in Western Discourse
This has created a situation whereby ‘Chinese’ history and culture has been inadequately interpreted by one culture (i.e. the ‘West’), through the erroneous scholarship of another (i.e. ‘Japan’), which is compounded by the fact that neither the West nor Japan are willing to admit the errors they have made…
Nippon Shorinji Kempo: Donn Draeger Exposes So Doshin (1972)
I have written a number of articles critical of the manner in which fascistic Japanese martial arts were spread to the West following WWII –
How Japanese Martial Arts Invaded the West
The distinctly ‘fascistic’ elements of Japanese racism – defined as ‘fighting spirit’ – was imported into the West as being both ‘transcendent’ and ‘spiritual’ – and presented as an example to be followed by those Westerners interested in the practice of Japanese martial arts. Overnight a number of serving or ex-serving US Servicemen sprang-up in the US wearing the white ‘gi’ and black belts around their middle.
UN Report – Japan has Serious Racial Discrimination Problem
In two days of deliberations, the Members of the Committee stated that Japan has a ‘serious’ problem regarding racial discrimination within its society. This, in part, has been due to the rise of extreme Japanese nationalism, and corresponding right-wing groups (and individuals) that through the deliberate generation of hate-speech in newspapers, through the Internet, the television and other forms of media, that are designed to promote racism and racial superiority (by declaring all non-Japanese to be culturally and racially inferior).
SANGHA KOMMUNE (SSR) 