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I'm writing "Unlocking the mystery of East Asia Part- 3" now.

I couldn't find a time to write recently because my company had to go through annual inventory and all. But now it's over. Very nice and cool fall season is engulfing the country of Japan now. It's the best season to travel to Japan now.

Speaking of traveling to Japan, the number of tourists visiting Japan is explosively increasing for the last couple of years.

The tourists from all countries are increasing but the most visitors are Chinese, South Korean, and Taiwanese in order of large number.

The latest tourist news in Japan is that South Korean tourists visited Osaka to eat at the popular Sushi restaurant that was when the incident took place.

The Korean tourists said in their Twitter that there was too much wasabi in Sushi. “This must be harassment by Japanese Sushi chefs!” Then Korean newspaper reported the incident saying “Wasabi Terrorism” against South Korean tourists.

Then the anti-Japanese Japanese newspapers run by Korean immigrants in Japan started to fan the incident saying “Japanese Sushi chefs must be doing this kind of harassment to all foreign tourists!”

Japanese people are all sick and tired of Korean people and Korean immigrants in Japan.

You don’t find this kind of people anywhere but only South Koreans.

The Japanese Sushi chefs were putting more wasabi than usual. It was because majority of Chinese and Korean tourists always demanded to put more wasabi in sushi.

It was thoughtfulness by Sushi chefs for each nationality but it wasn’t taken for thoughtfulness but malicious intention by Koreans because Korean culture doesn’t have the concept of thoughtfulness in its culture. Korean people have a pure malicious and evil mind as common sense so Japanese thoughtfulness can never be recognized as a good intention by Koreans. This is the cultural difference. It’s not a language problem but cultural difference.

Thoughtfulness and conscience which Japanese people have as standard are the best targets to be preyed on to pretend as the victims by Korean people. Just like Comfort Women issue. So it is important to know the cultural differences and treat Korean people differently because they are different. Koreans are even far different from Chinese people in a bad way.

So what Sushi chefs did after the incident was that they served Sushi for Korean tourists with wasabi put aside on the dish so that the tourists could adjust the amount of wasabi by themselves.

But Korean media took this as an insult and the media came to the Sushi restaurant to demand an apology for discrimination. Duhh! Hahaha

Can you handle people like Koreans? If you can, go ahead! We Japanese people had enough with Koreans. Enough is enough. They are all sick! Please don’t put Japanese and Koreans parallel anymore! Hahaha.

For the last, a President of Philippine Rodrigo Duterte visited Japan a couple days ago. Please take a look at the attached picture. Mr. Duterte is known for taking a pose with fist so Japanese President Abe is doing the same pose with him for media. Mr.Duterte is a pro-Japan even though he talks bad about America.

Unlock the mystery of Japan Part-2

====== Unlocking the mystery of Japan Part-1 ===============

https://shawniguchi101.blogspot.jp/2016/10/unlock-mystery-of-japan-part-1-from.html

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Now, I want to show you a very interesting true story about Emperor Hirohito, the most famous Japanese Emperor known for 2nd World War.

What I am about to tell you is a true story that defines the meaning of Japanese Emperor. This episode was documented and published by many books not only in Japan but also described in an autobiography of Douglas MacArthur and in his interpreter Faubion Bowers’s testimony.

When Japan lost 2nd World War, United Nation of GHQ came to Tokyo. The entire Tokyo was burnt ground from bombings raid by US. The chief executive of GHQ was Douglas MacArthur. He was the man in charge of everything that included the fate of Japan. And he arrested 39 war criminals in just 10 days after his arrival without giving a warning to Japanese government.

What surprised us most was that despite the war was conducted by Japanese government, which means Japanese government had all responsibilities for the war, Emperor Hirohito visited the GHQ office with only one interpreter. No bodyguard, only himself and the interpreter. Emperor Hirohito was labeled as a war criminal by US congress and Japanese Imperial family members were next to be captured sooner or later. But Hirohito brought only himself with the interpreter to GHQ office. He could get captured and sentenced to death by GHQ. It was a ridiculously guardless act for him but Hirohito didn’t care about his life then.

Soon Emperor Hirohito was ushered to meet Douglas MacArthur.

MacArthur was thinking that Emperor Hirohito came here to beg for his life just like German Emperor Kaiser did and said “It wasn’t my intention. People did it all by themselves, so please save my life” to US Army during 1st World War. However, contrary to his expectation, what Emperor Hirohito said before him was, “I am an Emperor of Japan. I have all responsibilities involved in the war. Everything was all done for my life so no Japanese soldier is a war criminal. You can hang me or give any maximum punishment to me. I already have made up my mind for that. However, those innocent 80 million people no longer have houses to live, foods to eat, clothes to wear, my heart aches for that. So please give houses, clothes, and foods to the people in your mercy.”

Emperor Hirohito actually didn’t get involved in the war or Japanese Army but he insisted he did so he thought he could save Japanese soldiers in exchange for his life.

In Douglas MacArthur’s autobiography, he described the episode like this. “I was very stunned and moved by his courage. And I found out he was the most precious man in Japan”

Faubion Bowers, US major and interpreter, was there by MacArthur and was excitingly confessing the episode during the interview by Japanese TV program.

You can watch his confession on YouTube from the link below.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inE1DSH0jrk

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He says in video “Migawari” which in Japanese means “scapegoat”. So he was saying that Emperor Hirohito was attempting to sacrifice his life as a scapegoat to save all Japanese people. MacArthur said he’d never seen any Emperor or King or man of power like Hirohito.

After meeting Emperor Hirohito, MacArthur got totally changed the way he looked at Japan.

Even though there were requests from US congress and Russia to give death penalty to Emperor Hirohito, MacArthur kept refusing the requests saying that there was no reason to do that. And MacArthur reversely requested US to send foods and clothes to Japan and saved a lot of Japanese people.

MacArthur met Emperor Hirohito 11 times during six year of his stay in Japan but nobody knows what they talked about because whenever Emperor Hirohito was asked to say what he talked about, he always said “It’s a man’s promise to never tell, so I never can say a word.”

In the eyes of westerners and Chinese and Koreans, Emperor Hirohito might look to be a dictator governing Japan, but he was nothing but just a pope of Japanese religion ‘Shin-to’. And he was as a pope trying to save the lives of Japanese people on behalf of Japanese gods when being asked to take responsibilities by the victorious countries..

I read old Japanese fairy tales when I was a kid. And those fairy tales had many episodes that villagers got saved by Japanese gods. Emperor Hirohito was playing the role of exactly the same thing as Japanese gods did in fairy tales without hesitation to sacrifice his life for people when being pressed by UN.

When I first time read the episode, it really broke my heart in tears. And I think this was the same feeling MacArthur had. MacArthur became pro-Japan after spending six years in Japan.

Now you know, Japanese Emperor is totally different from any Emperor or King in the world. Emperors and Kings think people are just consumable products and think Emperors and Kings are the most important men. That's why they don't care people getting killed for themselves but Japanese Emperor was opposite. Japanese Emperor didn't hesitate to sacrifice his life for saving people's lives. Why? Because he was a pope even before he was an Emperor

I hope Chinese and Koreans can someday understand the fundamental difference of Japanese Emperor and definition of Japanese Emperor.

Also, Japanese culture is all based on ‘Shin-to’. Annual events, traditional fashion, customs and even Sumo wrestling are the parts of Shinto culture.

Even though Japan is an island and adjacent to Korea and China, the reason Japan has been totally different from Korea and China is because of Shinto. Shinto is what sets Japanese people apart from Chinese and Korean people.

Just for information. In Shin-to, the highest ranked Japanese god is female called 'Amaterasu'.

In next series, I will explain what kind of influence each country had from cultural differences.

Continues to Part-3

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Unlock the mystery of Japan Part-1

From this time, I’m going to explain the difference of Japanese, Chinese, and Koreans in series.

These are very different people from one another. Especially Japanese people are completely different from Chinese and Koreans.

The purpose of writing this theme is to unlock the mystery of East Asians because most people in the world are misunderstanding East Asians. If you know the difference of East Asians, you will know the answer for why Japanese people and Korean people can never get along with each other and all. There is always a reason for everything.

‘Cause and effect.’ The cause is the difference of national character. And the effect is what’s going on in East Asia now and in the past.

If you know the difference of East Asians, you will be able to look at the issues about East Asia from a different aspect you’ve never had. And you’ll be able to perceive East Asian issues more accurately than those reported by major Newspapers and Web News.

What I am explaining here is not just my personal opinion, but from a lot of opinions given by experts and scholars of Japanese, Chinese, and Koreans. These are the kind of things that you can never hear as far as you are relying on English for the source of information.

Since the era of internet began, there are so many things that we East Asians discovered and learned the differences of each other.

Nowadays, when talking about politics of China and Korea, TV programs invite native Chinese and Korean scholars and let them explain, from the point of view of national character difference, why China and Korea or Chinese and Koreans make decisions like that. In another word, Japanese people also can’t understand Chinese and Koreans because there is a huge difference in a way of thinking that comes from their national characters and common senses.

These huge national character differences were all formed over the course of thousands of years. So if you look at history of each country, you can find the answer why each country has a totally different national character.

Before I talk about the difference of national character, I’ll explain how different Japanese culture is from Chinese and Korean. You’ll know why Japanese people have a different way of thinking from Chinese and Koreans if you look at the cultural history.

First of all, what makes Japan so different from China and Korea is the existence of Japanese Emperor.

A lot of people in the world, including Chinese and Koreans, misunderstand about Japanese Emperor. Did you know Japanese Emperor was a Pope? Just like Pope Francis of the Roman Catholic Church, Japanese Emperor is a Pope of Japanese religion called “Shin-to”. However, unlike Catholic Pope who is being elected by vote, Japanese Pope (Emperor) has the unbroken chain of pedigree which has been lasting more than 2,000 years.

A country of Japan was founded more than 2,000 years ago by first Japanese Emperor so that Shin-to has longer history than Christianity. And current Japanese Emperor’s ancestors are gods of Japan.

There are more than 88,000 shrines in Japan as of now. These are like Churches in Christianity but unlike Christian churches, Japanese shrines don’t have Sunday school. No mass, no lecture, no book like Bible. Then what are they for? Well, Shrine is a spiritual place where Japanese god resides. There is a shrine in each village or about every two villages. These shrines are watching over the village to protect villagers from trouble. And people visit a shrine to make a wish. And in local villages, villagers have a festival twice in year, once in spring and the other one in fall. The festival in spring is for asking Japanese god to let villagers have a good luck in harvesting for the year. Fall festival is for appreciating Japanese god for letting villagers harvest the crops successfully. So you see every village throughout Japan has those activities for Japanese gods.

And there is a custom in Japan people visiting shrines on January 1st to make a new year wish. And there are many more lifetime events that have to do with shrine and Japanese gods.

Those activities are only in Japan for thousands of years. You don’t find anything like this in China or Korea.

Japanese people’s life is pretty much intertwined with Shin-to, a Japanese religion which has been in Japan since the birth of Japan more than 2,000 years ago.

Now, when you hear an emperor, you may imagine a dictator dominating the country. It is true Chinese Emperor and Korean King were dictators extracting wealth from people. But Japanese Emperor was and is nothing like that. The biggest difference is that Japanese Emperor has never governed Japan. This is something that all people, Chinese, Koreans, westerners, and all, can’t understand because there has been no such an emperor or king in human history.

When a man gets power, the man builds a huge architecture to boast his power. Well known examples are Kings in Egypt who built many Pyramids, and also Chinese first Emperor Qin Si Huang, who was just like the King in Egypt, held sway over people and built Great Wall of China. However, despite Japanese Emperor has the longest Imperial family history in the world, he hasn’t built a huge architecture to impress his power at all. Only shrines, which are modest size compared to the size of Buddhist temples, were built all over Japan.

This is absolutely impossible to understand even for Chinese and Korean people.

In Chinese and Korean history, an Emperor and King were dictators tormenting people. So it is natural for Chinese and Korean people to think that Japanese Emperor was the same type of dictator as Chinese and Korean Kings until the end of 2nd World War. But in reality, Japanese Emperor has never been a ruler.

Japanese Emperor has never got involved in any war in Japanese history. Not to mention during 2nd World War, even during the age of battle, when Shogun and Samurai warriors were fighting against the opponents to dominate the regions, Japanese Emperor was an outsider. The Emperor never got involved or participated the battles.

Chinese Emperor and Korean King were ‘a taker’, whereas Japanese Emperor has been ‘a giver” establishing a shrine in each village to provide villagers with spiritual power for protection.

Continues to Part-2

I’m writing about the differences of Japanese, Chinese and Koreans now. It’s going to be posted in series here soon.
In a meanwhile, I got follow-up news about Great Wall of China.

 According to JiJi news dated on October 1st, there seemed to be a lot of criticisms from major Chinese newspapers and citizens against the authority about the horrible restoration job for Great Wall of China.  On October 27, the authority admitted using a little bit of concrete for the restoration and announced, at a public interview, to punish the man in charge of the job.

 The restoration job was done from 2013 till 2014. At first, the authority was announcing that there was no problem with the job, but suddenly on October 27, the authority had changed its attitude because overwhelming number of complaints and criticisms blasted at the authority, according to JiJi news. Hahaha.

You see, I posted this news on October 25 in my blog. That day and the following day, the number of visiting my blog shot up the roof! Haha.
I said on October 25, that Chinese people, including the authority, didn’t understand the value of historical architectures. According to the authority, the reason why Great Wall of China crumbled or vanished at many places was because local Chinese people have been stealing the bricks to sell or to build their houses. Hahaha.

In 2006, Chinese government made a regulation to ban people from stealing the bricks but still people kept stealing them.

Now people in Japan are speculating that the reason for the authority applied thick layer of concrete on the top of the wall might be for the purpose of preventing Chinese people from stealing the bricks. Hahaha.
 Even if the authority restored Great Wall of China back to exactly the same original condition, the local Chinese people would start stealing the bricks again. Sure! Everybody wants brand new bricks for free! Hahaha. So applying the thick layer of concrete on top of Great Wall of China might be the best the authority could do about it.

Depending on each country, national character varies so does the solution.
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