Re: [HIST??] Culture shock

On Tue, 25 Jun 2002 08:19:56 -0700 (PDT), John Atkinson
<johnmatkinson@yahoo.com> wrote:

>The Japanese didn't get
>effective democracy until we nuked them flat.

I will only slightly disagree with you here in the sense that it's
debatable
whether or not they actually _did_ get effective democracy. *grin* It's
obvious that corporations have become the new aristocracy in Japan.

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