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Association of conservative foreigners in Japan(ACFJ)

McTojo

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Next year in March I plan to start my own organization of foreigners who are opposed to the westernization of Japan. This will be an organization of foreigners who acknowledge the emperor of Japan as the divine symbol of the state and the only sole source of Japans salvation.

Through this organization I plan to promote Japans onsens & social culture through the realization of "Japan for the Japanese" with the exception of token gaijins (e.g. ACFJ).

The mission of ACFJ is to make Japan great once again as a beacon of hope and inspirations for all asian nations and to further advance the cause of Koizumi and the perservation of Japan's sake and rice which is the only true cultural heritage next to the Jukujo and the young generation.

By realizing this vision Japan can once again rebound from her darkest hour and become the nation that god intended her to be.

Me , Tony McTojo Karakakawa, CEO and Founder, will help Japan realize this dream of a paradise made in Japan 100%.

I will start accepting application on Jan. 2, 2006.
 
Uyoku first came to mind when I read all that. Scary guys they are.

I think Japan would be looked upon quite darkly were it ever to go back to revering the Emperor as before. The sake, onsens, and rice probably don't need any help in keeping their places in Japanese hearts.

What exactly is jukujo? I did an image google and got lots of Japanese porn, an old man carrying a sword, and a couple what looked like nabe dishes.
 
McTojo said:
Next year in March I plan to start my own organization of foreigners who are opposed to the westernization of Japan. This will be an organization of foreigners who acknowledge the emperor of Japan as the divine symbol of the state and the only sole source of Japans salvation.

Just for your information, the Meiji Restoration in which the Japanese emperor was made the powerful head of state and symbol of nationalism of Japan until 1945, was in fact one of the most striking attempt to westernising Japan. In the late 19th century, all the major European powers were empires : The British Empire, France under emperor Napoleon III, Imperial Germany, the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Smaller nations were kingdoms (including Italy and Spain). Only the USA was a republic, and not yet very influencial at the time (it was just after the Civil War). Japan wanted to emulate Western nations, so it send people like Ito Hirobumi or Saionji Kinmochi to study the European political systems.

Imperial Japan was modelled as a Constitutional Monarchy based on the British system, with a strong military based on the German system. The concept of monarch of divine rights came from pre-1789 France and Germany. Japan did not have this concept, not being a Christian culture. But it imported it anyway. The cult of the emperor and nationalism were spead to universal education, in the same way as was normal in Europe at the time (which eventually led to WWI).

My question is, how do you want to oppose to the westernization of Japan while acknowledge the emperor of Japan as the divine symbol of the state (especially through an association of foreigners, mostly Westerners I guess) ?

Through this organization I plan to promote Japans onsens & social culture through the realization of "Japan for the Japanese"

Hahaa. Onsens... here is something maybe truly Japanese.

The mission of ACFJ is to make Japan great once again as a beacon of hope and inspirations for all asian nations...

How could a country that has fashioned its culture on Chinese and Western culture and values promote itself as a cultural reference ? How could Japan politically lead other Asian countries, when it is the only universally hated country in the region ? It's certainly not with nationalistic rhetoric and whitewashing of history (as you have suggested many times) that it will even get closer to be respected by its neighbours - let alone be a beacon of hope... So far, hope in China comes mostly from its shift to a capitalist system and improvement of its relations with the West.

By realizing this vision Japan can once again rebound from her darkest hour and become the nation that god intended her to be.

Your Christian god ? Buddhism has no god (at best, some branches have deities such as the "thunder god" or "goddess of compassion", but nobody believes in them these days). Shinto has the spirits of nature, who keep to themselves and hardly care about humans. Why would you like your Christian god to help Japan "escape westernization" ? That's not only nonsense, it's self contradictory.

Me , Tony McTojo Karakakawa

Karakakawa ? That's not even a possible Japanese family name, based on the official kanji list. :D
 
That is an excellent post Maciamo, the contradictions in this guys stuff are just way too massive to be taken even remotely seriously.
 
an organization dedicated to "japan for the Japanese" run by foreigners - I love it. Thanks McTojo, you made my day.
 
McTojo, methinks that maybe you are the reincarnation of Mishima, Yukio in gaijin form.
"How oddly situated a man is apt to find himself at the age of thirty-eight! His youth belongs to the distant past. Yet the period of memory beginning with the end of youth and extending to the present has left him not a single vivid impression. And therefore he persists in feeling that nothing more than a fragile barrier separates him from his youth. He is forever hearing with the utmost clarity the sounds of this neighboring domain, but there is no way to penetrate the barrier." (from Runaway Horses, 1969)

I hope history doesn't repeat itself again as it is said that those who forget the the past are condemned to repeat it.

Mishima was deeply attracted to the patriotism of imperial Japan, and samurai spirit of Japan's past. However, at the same time he dressed in Western clothes and lived in a Western-style house. In 1968 he founded the Shield Society, a private army of some100 youths dedicated to a revival of Bushido, the samurai knightly code of honour. In 1970 he seized control in military headquarters in Tokyo, trying to rouse the nation to pre-war nationalist heroic ideals. After failure Mishima committed seppuku (ritual disembowelment) with his sword on November 25, 1970. Before he died he shouted, ''Long live the Emperor.'' On the day of his death Mishima delivered to his publishers the final pages of The Sea of Fertility, the authors account of the Japanese experience in the 20th century. The first part of the four-volume novel, Spring Snow (1968), is set in the closed circles of Tokyo's Imperial Court in 1912. It was followed by Runaway Horses (1969), The Temple of Dawn (1970) and Five Signs of a God's Decay (1971). Each of the novels depict a different reincarnation of the same being: first as a young aristocrat, then as a political fanatic in the 1930s, as a Thai princess before and after World War II, and as an evil young orphan in the 1960s.
 
Pararousia said:
*gasps* Oh look! There's someone with 3 red rep dots!
And doesn't it only take 300 negative points and you're summarily banned ? If McTojo is passionately in favor of a right wing ideology, although the foundations are clearly unreasonable, and not a disruptive or difficult presense here I don't necessarily agree he should be so vilified. But then I really do not even take it that seriously. And if this foundation were started, what damage can a small group of foreigners acting on their own possible create ? Leave it alone I say...:eek:
 
Pachipro said:
McTojo, methinks that maybe you are the reincarnation of Mishima, Yukio in gaijin form.


I hope history doesn't repeat itself again as it is said that those who forget the the past are condemned to repeat it.

I remember back in 1998 I received a book written by Yukio Mishima entitled "Forbidden Colours" from a Japanese girl who was involved in a very tumultuous marriage. It's strange how all of the good women are married to the worst men these days. I too was involved in a terrible marriage with a Japanese lady for five years. I remember it being one of the worst episodes of my life but I refuse to accept stereotypes. I began to read Mishima's books and immediately identified with him on so many things as if he was talking to me directly like we shared spiritual parallels of past and presents lives. As time went on I acquired the entire collection of Mishima's works accept a few small short stories of which were never translated into English. I even purchased the movie that was written by Paul Shrader and Francis Ford Cappolla which is banned for sale in Japan still to this very day ! Apparently Mishima's wife went against the production halfway through it.

Anyway, the story goes on...
 
I'm sorry, I just couldn't resist!
McTojo said:
It's strange how all of the good women are married to the worst men these days. I too was involved in a terrible marriage with a Japanese lady for five years.
I think nothing more need be said on this topic!:giggle:
As time went on I acquired the entire collection of Mishima's works accept a few small short stories of which were never translated into English.
Does anyone else find it, shall we say, ironic that he apparently can't read Japanese? I wonder how well he speaks it? :eek:

On a more serious note, I think that if you really found that Mishima "spoke" to you in his writings, you should read them in Japanese, as anytime something is translated, it is put through the lens first of the language it is being put into, and second through the lens of the person doing the translation.
 
haha, this mc donald dude is not well liked, but i like him he's like a renegade politician thats on a crusade, hmm, i guess i with Mc_dee's but im opposing a more threating cause, im against the regime of North Korea, is sad whats going on there.
 
Mikawa Ossan said:
I'm sorry, I just couldn't resist!I think nothing more need be said on this topic!:giggle: Does anyone else find it, shall we say, ironic that he apparently can't read Japanese? I wonder how well he speaks it? :eek:

On a more serious note, I think that if you really found that Mishima "spoke" to you in his writings, you should read them in Japanese, as anytime something is translated, it is put through the lens first of the language it is being put into, and second through the lens of the person doing the translation.

Imagine the languages you'd have to understand in order to read all the books that one might want to read; French for Sartre, Polish for Milosz, English for Vonnegut, Chinese for Sun Tzu, German for Heidegger, Italian for Machiavelli, Japanese for Nitobe, Russian for Dostoyevski, Czech for Kundera...
 
Index said:
Imagine the languages you'd have to understand in order to read all the books that one might want to read; French for Sartre, Polish for Milosz, English for Shakespeare, Chinese for Sun Tzu, German for Heidegger, Italian for Machiavelli, Japanese for Nitobe, Russian for Dostoyevski...

That's a good motivation to learn languages. As you mention it, I started learning Italian with Machiavelli, and German with Kafka (and Japanese with Naruto... :eek:).
 
Index said:
Imagine the languages you'd have to understand in order to read all the books that one might want to read; French for Sartre, Polish for Milosz, English for Vonnegut, Chinese for Sun Tzu, German for Heidegger, Italian for Machiavelli, Japanese for Nitobe, Russian for Dostoyevski, Czech for Kundera...
Absolutely. But given the nature of McTojo's posts, I find it extremely telling that he apparently hasn't taken the time to bother learning the language of the country he "loves" so very much.
 
McTojo said:
I too was involved in a terrible marriage with a Japanese lady for five years.

Must have been all that Westernization that made her lose her appeal, eh?

I couldn't resist, either. McTojo, you're too loveable!

Let us know how the organization goes!
 
McTojo said:
I too was involved in a terrible marriage with a Japanese lady for five years.

I'm starting to get a hint, perhaps, as to your identity. Tell me, have we ever dined together?
 
Mandylion said:
an organization dedicated to "japan for the Japanese" run by foreigners - I love it. Thanks McTojo, you made my day.


What was that Groucho Marx quote?

"Any organization that would have me as a member I wouldn't want to join."
 
I almost hate to admit it, but I really miss McTojo. Aside from the comment that got him banned, he was a fun guy to have around. Say what you will, he added some color to the forum!

Anyone else feel remotely the same?
 
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