Hatoyama’s Hitler Youth?
October 28th, 2009 by James
The LDP’s leader has borrowed a page from Taro Aso’s play book and compared the DPJ to Nazis:
“I got the impression that the atmosphere in parliament was similar to the Hitler Youth agreeing to Hitler’s speech,” Liberal Democratic Party leader Sadakazu Tanigaki told reporters after Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama’s first policy speech since his Democratic Party ousted the LDP in a historic August election.
- Akihabara News – Gadgetry from Japan (Subscribe)
- dannychoo.com – Your portal to Japan (Subscribe)
| Related Posts: |
|
Marxy takes a look at a Japanese nationalist bestseller |
Full RSS Feed
I find it odd that he tries to make parallels with Nazi Germany instead of just looking in his own backyard and make references to Imperial Japan…
How’s it odd? Almost all countries reference Hitler and Nazi Germany.
Yeah, that’s ’cause almost all countries were not sided with Hittler and having their own quest for terror conquest.
Nazi Germany is easy, as it doesn’t require subtlety, and Hitler is easy to caricature. Who would you use for Imperial Japan? Tojo? Nothing like Hitler. The Emperor? Nothing like Hitler and also not a good idea in terms of reaction.
Yes but if such pontificates were cognizant of Godwin’s Law, they would realize that reaching for such analogies pretty much neuters whatever it is they are trying to say. At least among reasonably intelligent people.
Yeah, but they don’t. So they appeal to those that don’t care about subtlety, like most of the great unwashed masses out there. Personally I think there should be more Mussolini analogies….
“Personally I think there should be more Mussolini analogies….”
Ah, Benny. Now, there was a man who could work a crowd. Not to mention he wore much snappier uniforms than Herr Schickelgruber.
He also had more balls….
Imperial Japan’s constitution had some VERY Hilter like messages. My Japanese Law teacher, at kandai talked about it when we were comparing the old constitution to the new.
He also had more balls….—
actualy they both had only one ball..
But Mussolini couldn’t do anything right.
But I thought he made the trains run on time.
Your professor actually taught you that sections of the Meiji constitution were “Hitler-like”? What part, exactly, was Hitlerly?
“Imperial Japan’s constitution had some VERY Hilter like messages.”
Perhaps “Hilter-like”, but probably not “Hitler-like”, as Hitler wasn’t even a gleam in his daddy’s eye when the Meiji Constitution was written and promulgated.
“actualy they both had only one ball..”
Source?
@The Overthinker
He’s talking out of his ass. Those are lies spread by enemies during the war to make them look bad. Once again, people don’t bother to fact check.
@weirdo
godly you are failed..
Source?–
michael jacksons doctor.
Imperial Japan’s constitution had some VERY Bismarck like messages?
The Overthinker and weirdo,
He, longus dickus, is just jealous of the man with three balls. He should change his name to “longus dickus jealous triballus” now. Let him be…
Trivia from a Wikipedia entry,
In Japanese cuisine, the milt (白子 shirako ‘white children’) of anglerfish (anko) and pufferfish (fugu) are a delicacy.
If you have a chance to visit Japan and are hoping for one more ball, put your hope on eating shirako.
“Your professor actually taught you that sections of the Meiji constitution were “Hitler-like”? What part, exactly, was Hitlerly?”
I just remember when we got the old constitution we talked mostly about how the tenno had supreme power over pretty much everything, and the one part that had a reference in the footnotes to Hitler when Japanese people were referred to as being the superior race. This whole superior race thing and the whole Tenno being devine and the Fuherer being kind of omnipresent, relates them. I think that’s why when the new constitution was made Hirohito presented that new years speech saying something along the lines of “the relation between tenno and kokumin cant be made based on the ruler being seen as devine and the people being seen as superior”. I don’t know it was something like that, but MacArthur made him say it anyway.
Other than using the constitution to compare them,I guess you could compare the two countries at the time for the acts of genocide they committed. Japan in Nanking, and Germany with their concentration camps.
I just learned all this stuff in class man, its not my opinion.
He, longus dickus, is just jealous of the man with three balls. He should change his name to “longus dickus jealous triballus” now. Let him be…–
how about you doing shut up your own mouth and stop to atack people for senseless maters?
Seriously, we have no political icon nicely fit. Comparison with 大政翼賛会 might be good but Yukio’s grandpa showed opposition to that several times. The grandpa once went into retirement for opposition to Tojo and “the atmosphere in parliament” at that time. So, we must look for nice one from foreign countries.
And to think I gave Tanigaki credit for being smarter than most of the LDP leadership…
Well, if this is the best the party can manage, they don’t deserve to be in power.
Tanigaki=No future for LDP
“I got the impression that the atmosphere in parliament was similar to the Uyoku cheering on the Emperor”
How’s that?
It’s not Uyoku but Uyuko, and “the Emperor” should be replaced with “the Tanno”.
caviler must be cavilled.wwwww