Hello, I have been surfing through a quite a bit of Asian forums, alot of which are suppose to talk about Japan. Ironically, many members, such as here, usually are not Japanese, thus many questions that are meant for native Japanese often come from heresay and as we all know, info that get passed may usually get its info not exactly 100% accurate.

The major dissapointment I find is, when I do find a Japanese poster online that can speak english, or at least engrish that can be at least understandable to english speaking westerners, whatever that comes out of their mouths can be a major turn off.

I remember a 100% native Japanese member here on Jref, JToday, J-zone by the name of McTojo, actually this fellow has been to about 1/3 of the Japanese forums are has been pretty much banned, as well as a few others. And due to the rarity of Japanese that ever register, its these guys that are happened to be banned are the most direct leads to understanding the Japanese way of thinking from their point of view rather than through heresay.

To put it bluntly, Japanese forum posters and blog posters in english language websites such as 2chan,youtube,Jtoday,asiafinest,Jref, etc are pretty much majorly ultranationalists and extremists, or at least thats what it sounds like from what I have interpreted from their bad grammer, no offense though.

For the Japanese it seems that their reputation online is close to nil because of their biased stance towards often controversial issues and stubborness to reject views from non-Japanese.

Tourists to Japan who have been to Japan to express their issue that there is corruption in Japanese government through showing examples on youtube are often replied by hateful Japanese who act in such ways to prove critics to Japan right. The author will usually reply: "see his post, thats how they act", playing right into others hands. Maybe the Japanese do this purposely? But for what?

Sure I understand that alot of negative odur Japan gets is uncalled for, but, the way many Japanese behave towards their angry bashers are in know way solving the issues. While on the internet many non-Japanese try to make an effort to close the resentment gap and cultural differences between east and west, the Japanese posters even begin hating those that are helping them by saying things like "we don't need your help gaijin, we japanese don't like you" or something to that effect. Well.... so much for being a mediator between its neighbors.

Understanding history does not mean hating the Japanese. But rather than being some brainwashed Japanophile, I took the effort to learn history as to not let it repeat and since I don't have cable TV, I watched history footages from youtube regarding the whole history of WWII. But the replies that these clips show, has not one Japanese who sound apologetic but rather bashing americans and british for talking about burma railway and bataan with truly insulting comments to the POW victims.

I have only met 1 or 2 out of a dozen english capable speaking Japanese online that are not ultranationalist.

However the silence of moderate Japanese and the ever increasing extremists may pose a serious problem in the future. I just find that alot of real Japanese online who thinks that whitewashing and antagonizing others is a way of improving their own image isn't really working, that is if they bothered to read the replies they get for history denial.

The burden of such hate must be heavy, that is if this is true in Japan, as interpreted from posts by real Japanese online then this might be one of the factors for Japan's suicide rate. For Japan not to fall back into 1930s and advance in modern society, I think that Japanese should put down their strong hatred of its neighbors and other gaijins and try to give tolerance to the non-Japanese world, since its the 21st century, I see no benefit in clinging on to Nazi-like ideal as it is impractical even in the buisness world.

What do you think?? Why do "real Japanese posters" who register to english forums make a fool of themselves by spewing propaganda given by their family or government?? Why do moderate Japanese stay silent and take the beating from the bad reputation ultranationalists give them?? Do Japanese know that their behaviour online such as youtube know that they are only justifying and reinforcing Japan-bashers with only more evidence to prove them right??