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I'd like to see the reasoning for declining the currency today. Presumably it's more than just a simple "because we don't want to". Right now the article only f

• hga 11y ago
  Not establishing a precedent is probably the biggest issue, the reparations that could be legitimately charged to the Japanese for a half-century of very very bloody imperialism (the Greater East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere was killing an estimated quarter million a month when we dropped the bombs) would make Versailles look small. And Versailles should have taught us that declaring collective guilt on a people is unwise.
  • venomsnake 11y ago
    > And Versailles should have taught us that declaring collective guilt on a people is unwise. I just shudder of the day Germany backlashes badly after 70 years of perma-guilting. I think that the japanese approach to history is much more stable in the long run.