Japans Secret War

[johnm]

<title>semantics war John M johnm n9vbt@hotmail.com</title>
Ever hear of "Patrice Lamumba University" in Moscow? <br>
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As I remember it, a number of really great proponents were trained at it (it was a satellite country university, run but the USSR as a "training school"), such as Mohamar Kadaffi, and a good number of the communist African satellites' leaders.<br>
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It was named for the "martyred" leader of the Congo rebellion.<br>
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John M.<br>
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Reality is fractal. It has a pattern with no discernable pattern. The finer you divide it, the more it remains the same.<br>

[Chagyah]

<title>..democracy in action..... Lavi Chagyah Chagyah lavi_chagyah@yahoo.com</title>
On 7/31/02 8:55:00 AM, Kimberly Snow wrote:<br>
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Another highly deceptive term is "democracy". This is special favourite of African<br>
Marxists. You will hear them lauding "democracy".<br>
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............Hehehehe reminds me of my old college days !!! Which is where i picked up this concise definition !<br>
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Democracy : is nothing more than two wolves and a sheep , deciding whats for dinner !<br>
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Shalom !<br>
Lavi Chagyah<br>

[Sheryll]

<title>Japans Secret War Sheryl Lynn Sheryll sheryll@zak.att.ne.jp</title>
The following article is from "Japan Today" and English Japanese paper, internet version. <a target=_new href="http://www.japantoday.com/">http://www.japantoday.com/</a> The English language papers give a little different perspective on Japan than you get from the US news on Japan. <br>
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Sheryl<br>
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Dropping the nuclear bombshell<br>
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Peter Hadfield<br>
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Is this supposed to be a surprise? The Asahi Shimbun reports that secret documents pertaining to Japan's atomic bomb research program have been brought home, 50 years after they were smuggled to the United States. The newspaper concludes that a proposed army bomb would have been "relatively weak," but that only scratches the surface of what was a very sophisticated research program.<br>
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A few weeks before the 50th anniversary of the dropping of the American bomb on Hiroshima, I spoke to physicist Tatsusaburo Suzuki about his part in the making of Japan's own bomb. He was remarkably candid.<br>
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"We believed in 1945 that we could build a bomb," said Suzuki, a lieutenant colonel during the war. "But we had to work much harder."<br>
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Suzuki said he and his colleagues were doing much of what the Americans were doing - producing uranium hexaflouride and separating fissionable U-235 from U-238 - but they did not have a large enough separating cyclotron to do it in quantity. "One of our officers suggested we should scrap five or six heavy cruisers to make a 50 000-tonne facility," said Suzuki. "I was confident at the time we could have built a bomb if we had better equipment." But the idea of scrapping heavy cruisers was vetoed.<br>
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It is still not clear just how far Japan got in its nuclear research program, partly because the laboratory in Tokyo was destroyed by American bombers and the facility to where tests were moved is now in North Korea. All important documents are thought to have been destroyed at the end of the war - with the now obvious exception of the plans brought back from the United States.<br>
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With Japan a victim of the atomic bomb there is an obvious reluctance to investigate or talk about this damning equivalence. But Suzuki had no doubt Japan would have used the bomb just as the Americans had done but, he insisted, with more thought to civilian populations.<br>
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A few days later I was at the Peace Museum in Hiroshima to interview the director, Hiroshi Harada. The museum has two floors devoted almost entirely to the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, and not a single exhibit or even mention of Japan's own atomic bomb research program.<br>
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In the pre-interview chat (it was being filmed for television) Harada wanted to know what questions would be asked. I mentioned, among other things, the Japanese atomic bomb. That is something he could not talk about, he said. I agreed to nothing, and decided that if he had nothing to say then he could say it to camera.<br>
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The cameras rolled and after a few minutes I snuck in the question about Japan's atomic weapons program.<br>
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"I'm aware that Japan was developing nuclear weapons during the war," said Harada rather uncomfortably. "But we haven't included a display of this because there is not enough space in the museum."<br>
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No wonder we are all still surprised to learn about it. (Asahi Shimbun)<br>
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August 7, 2002<br>