Niki-chan (niki-chan@SANCTUM.COM)
Fri, 5 Mar 1999 23:10:33 -0500
X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3110.5 Message-ID: <001001be6787$4934de40$3d46a5ce@ia160.sanctum.com> Date: Fri, 5 Mar 1999 23:10:33 -0500 From: Niki-chan <niki-chan@SANCTUM.COM> Subject: Re: Nationalism in Sakura Taisen
Realistic? And I suppose mechs and demons were running around during this
time too, hmm?
Though I agree...besides, don't you know political correctness is soooo
unvogue?
-----Original Message-----
From: B.P. Suverkropp <bastiaan@HAWAII.EDU>
To: SAKURATAISEN-LIST@LISTSERV.ACSU.BUFFALO.EDU
<SAKURATAISEN-LIST@LISTSERV.ACSU.BUFFALO.EDU>
Date: Friday, March 05, 1999 9:17 PM
Subject: Nationalism in Sakura Taisen
>>Sakura Taisen and Sakura Taisen 2 both have a lot of stress on Japanese
>>national pride and the Imperial roots and power. The Kamikaze-style attack
>>that Yoneda leads on Satan's weapon towards the end of Sakura 1 also
>>reflects this history, and it's a very "nationalistic" story in its own
>>right.
>>
>>It's improper, and incorrect (IMHO), to expect a Japanese product and
story
>>to conform to Western culture and a Western idea of "Political
Correctness".
>
>The time in which the story is set was actually one of intense
>nationalism in Japan, although it had not reached the militairistic and
>xenophobic excesses of the 1930's and 1940's. Not to portray this would
>indeed be unrealistic.
>
>
>--
>Bas P. Suverkropp
>email: bastiaan@hawaii.edu