The list of confirmed civil aviation aeroplanes being shot-down by hostile forces, dates back to at least 1938, when the Airforce of Imperial Japan challenged

The list of confirmed civil aviation aeroplanes being shot-down by hostile forces, dates back to at least 1938, when the Airforce of Imperial Japan challenged
Moreover, whilst ‘capitalist’ Japan complains about the North Korean missile that landed harmlessly in waters off it coast (according to the bourgeois press), perhaps the government of Japan would like to issue an ‘official’ apology for the hundreds of thousands (even ‘millions’) of innocent Chinese, Korean, Russian, Burmese, Indian, Filipino, Indonesian and Western men, women and children its military murdered across Asia from 1931 – 1945!
We teach our children that war is wrong – but that sometimes wars need to be thought in ‘self-defence’ – until humanity evolves beyond this stupid and disastrous manner of interacting. It is also important for the younger generation to realise the sacrifices and destruction endured by China, the USSR and Europe in the 20th century fight against the forces of International Fascism.
Not only is a traditional ‘form’ or ‘kata’ a vehicle for martial excellence, but through the specific shapes (and psychological and physical conditioning required to perform these ‘forms’), longevity and health are a by-product of proper and correct martial practice.
Martial arts in the West can only be genuinely criticised if they are contextualised in their proper ‘capitalist’ setting. Only then can the exploitative and racist nature of these ‘exposé’ videos be correctly understood.
Two years later, Christmas Humphreys displayed the same amorality of the Japanese Zen he so admired, by having Ruth Ellis (a historic victim of domestic abuse) executed for fighting back against her abusive husband.