(Research and Translation by Adrian Chan-Wyles PhD) Choi Yeong-Eui was very much the product of Japanese imperialism and colonial domination of Korea prior to WWII.
Tag: Japanese racism
Tokyo: Anti-Fascist Protest (18.5.2015)
This US policy of re-Nationalising Japan led to the bizarre reality of Japanese Zen masters (that had committed war-crimes against US troops during WWII), being ‘invited’ to the US to convert Westerners to fascistic Japanese Buddhism…
Nanjing Massacre Memorial (2016)
‘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.
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.
SANGHA KOMMUNE (SSR) 