Brit-Am Research Sources (4 January 2016, 23 Tevet, 5776)
Contents:
1. Douglas Augustine: Japanese Deference to the USA was a Blessing for Japan
2. Informational leads Concerning Qos i.e. Esau and Edom.
3. THE IMPACT OF PHOENICIAN AND GREEK EXPANSION ON THE EARLY IRON AGE SOCIETIES OF SOUTHERN IBERIA AND SOUTHWESTERN GERMANY
by Susan Margaret Frankenstein
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1. Douglas Augustine: Japanese Deference to the USA was a Blessing for Japan
RE: Brit-Am Now no. 2547
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# 3. Japanese Deference to Strength
Dear Mr. Davidiy:
I enjoyed the short piece in "Hebrew Nations" about the Japanese penchant for deferring to strength which I have pasted in below for reference. I think the author (Chinese) is quite correct but do not understand why he seemingly narrows this tendency solely to the Japanese. One of China's philosophers (Confucius ?) advised people to "bow low and survive" which is actually good advice for the most part in a world dominated by kings vested with absolute life and death power. Still, this tendency among Japanese people is still strong. I once heard a History professor remark to the effect that, "Japanese people have to be told" meaning that they were uncomfortable acting on their own volition. And even General McArthur famously remarked that Japan was a nation of teenagers.
As it turned out, Japan's deference to the USA would turn out to be the one of the biggest blessings the country could ever experience similar to the two failed Mongol invasion attempts of 1275 and 1281 each because of "divine winds" (the source of the word "kamikaze"). As a result, little Japan became the world's second largest economy for a generation in main part because it did not have to spend any money for its own military defense by virtue of being under the USA umbrella. It also enjoyed unrestricted exports to the USA without any reciprocal obligation to import anything. In essence, the country converted itself to a massive factory with a customer ready and willing to purchase almost all of what it produced. Being "deferential" worked out really well for Japan.
Best regards,
Douglas Augustine
Tokyo
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Japanese Deference to Strength
Jimmy Liu
https://www.quora.com/
Extract:
Vassalage and deference to power lies at the core of Japanese society. It's all about identifying who the strong man is, and serving him in complete deference for life, for generations even. This "kneel in front of the big guy" mentality defines samurai culture. The actual word/character "samurai" literally means "to serve" or "servant".
Had the US simply invaded Japan with conventional forces, the Japanese would actually respect the Americans less. The fact that the Americans broke the Japanese in such spectacular style with nuclear weapons actually solidified the image of America as the greatest, baddest mofo of all time in the minds of the Japanese. And how do you deal with the baddest mofo of all time if you're Japanese? Well you drop to your knees and swear fealty for all time of course, well, at least until the next country nukes you.
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2. Informational leads Concerning Qos i.e. Esau and Edom.
Kelley, Justin Toward a new synthesis of the god of Edom and Yahweh
http://bibliotecadigital.uca.edu.ar/repositorio/revistas/toward-new-synthesis-god-edom.pdf
Antiguo Oriente: Cuadernos del Centro de Estudios de Historia del Antiguo Oriente Vol. 7, 2009
Theme of Article is not worth much to us at this stage.
The Footnotes however have information of interest.
Qos (a rform of the name "Esau", the god of Edom): a
prefix given to Edomite clans on Egyptian inscriptions.
Bow symbol, Rainbow symbol, storm god eclipsed by Dusharra
Possibly equated with Kush.
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3. THE IMPACT OF PHOENICIAN AND GREEK EXPANSION ON THE EARLY IRON AGE SOCIETIES OF SOUTHERN IBERIA AND SOUTHWESTERN GERMANY
http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1349286/3/455901_vol1.pdf
Susan Margaret Frankenstein, London, 1977