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| Tango01 | 28 Feb 2015 3:36 p.m. PST |
… Japan's Shift In Military Policy. "Hisashi Tezuka knew his life had been spared when he heard the Emperor's voice crackling through the wireless. As Hirohito announced Japan's wartime surrender on Aug. 15, 1945, the young kamikaze pilot was on a train to the island of Shikoku to carry out his sacrificial mission. He received his orders just two days earlier at a base about 1,150 kilometers (715 miles) to the north. The crawling speed of the locomotive kept him alive…"
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| Great War Ace | 28 Feb 2015 7:21 p.m. PST |
"…the Japanese public is deeply ambivalent about adopting a more muscular foreign policy." Isn't that an oxymoron? I thought that ambivalence is the middle, tending to vacillate between two or more points of view. Ambivalence cannot be "deeply" anything…. |
| Stryderg | 28 Feb 2015 9:10 p.m. PST |
Maybe they are steadfast in their vacillating ambivalence? |
| jeffreyw3 | 01 Mar 2015 1:47 p.m. PST |
The Japanese public is unable to make a decision in the matter and it does not appear that this indecision will resolve. Correct usage. |
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