Reflections on the Japanese People
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Reflections on the Japanese People
Interviewer: Tell me Mr. Castonguay,
what is your attitude today
toward the Japanese people.
Well, it is the same as with any
nationality I would say.
I think the people of Japan are very
good people. Those who made the war,
they were warmongerers.
They should have been satisfied of
the islands that they occupied.
But they went in China,
they went all over the place,
they want to conquer the world.
That's greedy. Once you have enough to
eat you don't want to have a whole pile
of food next to you for nothing.
I think that the Japanese people
are very nice people, very polite.
But my souvenirs with the war,
with the soldiers, I think that the
soldiers and whoever was in charge of them,
they were, how should I say, the worst kind
of people you can have on earth.
They were not civilized before they got the
atomic bomb in the war as a whole.
Now we can say they are civilized.
And they are accepted by everybody I think.
You see the cars that they are being sold
in Canada, all kinds of things Japanese
made so everything is becoming
happier let's say.
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