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TAR20 Leg 11: Best showcasing of Japan ever?
topaz:
--- Quote from: SuperTux on May 08, 2012, 07:56:35 PM ---Is it the first time that TAR mentioned the war?
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actually, no. The Japan leg on TAR 20 was the 3rd one to mentioned about the war. The 1st one was on season 10 when they'd visited the infamous Hanoi Hilton in which it isn't a hotel, it's a prison for American POWs during the Vietnam War and the 2nd one was on All Star edition when they'd visited to Auschwitz Concentration Camp in Poland and paid respect to the victims of the Holocaust during World War 2.
SuperTux:
--- Quote from: starrynight on May 09, 2012, 01:42:03 AM ---I'm sure hardly anyone hates Japanese people now, time moves on and people move on, new generations come along as well. Japan has moved on as well.
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This is NOT true in East Asia. Browse fora and you'll see Chinese people, Korean people and Japanese people hate each other online. :lol: Sometimes it looks funny to see them attacking each other.
I appreciate this thread because it helps ventilate the WWII issue and people from different nations can exchange ideas, which would narrow the gap between our opinions. Here I'm gonna say what Chinese people, as far as I know, think of Japan in terms of WWII history. :)
In China I know there are some (more than a few) young cynics who hate Japan with no reason other than WWII. Most of them, who're called "the angry young men" (which is a derogative term) in Chinese, from my observation, don't really think over the issue deeply; they're just going with the flow, like what many young people do with fashion and famous brands. :) It's not cerebral.
But there is something that does annoy Chinese (maybe Korean people as well) a lot. In our eyes Japan has been holding an ambiguous attitude towards WWII; sometimes Japan does apologize, but sometimes it doesn't seem so genuine. We're worried about the rising of the ethics of militarism in Japan; we're just expecting Japan to treat the history honestly and not to do something like distorting the truth in history textbooks. Many Chinese people won't hate Japan at all if Japan treats the history just as what Germany did with it.
I don't know what other Chinese think about Atom Bomb. Personally my attitude is this: I feel sorry for what Japanese suffered from during that bomb, but it was not America's crime. Please believe that Japan in the militarism ethos had wreaked the same (maybe even more) serious havoc in China, Korea and other Asian nations.
TARFansurvivor:
This is my favorite Japan leg.
If they go to Japan again i will like to see Kyoto, The Beautiful Islands in the South and the snowy North!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :conf: :conf: :conf: :conf:
SuperTux:
--- Quote from: kenchan on May 08, 2012, 12:10:32 PM ---I, for one, am just fascinated how the word "STORY" is part of the word "hiSTORY". It teaches us who we are. Just like this show does.
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I didn't notice this! :lol3: :lol3: :lol3: Hi story!
Glamazon Racer:
My favourite leg in Japan would have to be TAR12's by a LONG way! That is one of my favourite legs of all time! I can't comment on how well it showcases the country, as I'm not Japanese, but in terms of an episode of TAR, that leg was beyond flawless! :colors
TAR9 and TAR15 had above average legs in Japan as well. I wasn't too fond of TAR18's or TAR20's Japan legs, although I did love visiting the Hiroshima memorial for the bomb. :hearts:
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