Jungshik Shin <jshin at mailaps dot org> wrote: > If those 20 assemblymen have time and energy to deal with this > foolish name change business, they had better push for a bill to > punish (even post-mortem?) collabortors to the Japanese colonialist > as France did after WW II.
If those 20 assemblymen really think a name change will boost national identity and pride, shouldn't they be trying to persuade English speakers to say "Taehan Minguk" instead? >> Furthermore, Japan in the pre-WWII era was still relatively isolated >> and anti-Western. > > Actually, that depends on what period (before WW II) you look into. > For instance, Japan in 1920's (before the emergence of the 'empiral' > 'army' into the power) can hardly be characterized as 'anti-Western'. > When it comes to being isolated, I think it's even farther from true > even with 'relatively'. Right. I concede I was way off-base with my Japanese history here. I probably had some sort of shogun image in mind. -Doug Ewell Fullerton, California http://users.adelphia.net/~dewell/
