{"id":68677,"date":"2017-08-07T16:01:47","date_gmt":"2017-08-07T23:01:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=68677"},"modified":"2017-08-07T16:09:20","modified_gmt":"2017-08-07T23:09:20","slug":"sri-lanka-and-the-yellow-races","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2017\/08\/07\/sri-lanka-and-the-yellow-races\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka and the Yellow Races"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Senaka Weeraratna<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n

The White Man enslaved the Brown Man and the Black Man for centuries. The Yellow Man liberated them. This is the true outcome of the Second World War.<\/p>\n

The Brown Man enslaved for nearly 500 years is free today because the Yellow Man fought the White Man at Port Arthur in 1905 followed by the epic attack on Pearl Harbour in 1941.<\/p>\n

Had the Yellow Man not fought the White Man, the Brown Man may still be in Chains, because none of the Colonial countries had any serious intention to give freedom to the black, brown and yellow races, except engage in deceitful talks of a never, never kind.<\/p>\n

The Black and Brown Races were too weak to do battle on their own or take on the might of the Coloniser then in occupation of vast swathes of Asian and African territory.<\/p>\n

It is time to acknowledge world\u2019s debt to Japan for Asia’s liberation from Western colonialism. This is undoubtedly Japan\u2019s greatest achievement in the 20th<\/sup> century, which led to the retreat of the West from the East and its colonies all over the world, shortly after the end of the second world war.<\/p>\n

No amount of spin or contortion can change this stubborn fact.<\/p>\n

The contemporary Japanese\u00a0must be made to be conscious and proud about their historic role in Asia\u2019s liberation from\u00a0colonialism.<\/p>\n

Freedom did not fall from the sky to Asia. It came due to the blood sacrifices of many local patriots but mostly daring Japanese soldiers.<\/p>\n

It is time to acknowledge this blood debt to Japan and the Japanese.<\/p>\n

The majority of the Buddhist Sinhalese would have most likely welcomed the Japanese with open arms and great warmth, had they landed on the shores of Sri Lanka in 1942 to liberate the indigenous people from the yoke of tyranny and subjugation, which is what colonialism is.<\/p>\n

Of all the major countries that took part in the Second World War, Japan is the only country that had declared as one of its primary goals the liberation of fellow Asians from Western imperialism. No other country in the West or East declared the grant of freedom to Asians and Africans then in a state of colonial subjugation, following victory in the war.<\/p>\n

Here are excerpts from the Speech by\u00a0Prime Minister General Hideki\u00a0<\/strong>Tojo\u00a0<\/strong>to t<\/strong>he Assembly of Greater East-Asiatic Nations at an International Conference held in Tokyo, Japan, November 5, 1943:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\n<\/strong>Hideki\u00a0<\/strong>Tojo<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

<\/strong>During the past centuries, the British Empire, through fraud and aggression, acquired vast territories throughout the world and maintained its domination over other nations and peoples in the various regions by keeping them pitted and engaged in conflict one against another. On the other hand, the United States which, by taking advantage of the disorder and confusion in Europe, had established its supremacy over the American continents spread its tentacles to the Pacific and to East Asia following its war with Spain. Then, with the opportunities afforded by the First World War, the United States began to pursue its ambition for world hegemony. More recently, with the outbreak of the present war, the United States has further intensified its imperialistic activities, making fresh inroads into North Africa, West Africa, the Atlantic Ocean, Australia, the Near East and even into India, apparently in an attempt to usurp the place of the British Empire.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The need of upholding international justice and of guaranteeing world peace is habitually stressed by America and Britain. They mean thereby no more and no less than the preservation of a world order of their own based upon division and conflict in Europe and upon the perpetuation of their colonial exploitation of Asia. They sought to realize their inordinate ambitions in Asia, through political aggression and economic exploitation; they brought on conflict among the various peoples; they tried to destroy their racial integrity under the fair name of education and culture. Thus, they have to this day threatened constantly the existence of \u00a0the nations and peoples of Asia, disturbed their stability, and suppressed their natural and proper development. It is because of their notion to regard East Asia as a colony that they harp upon the principles of the open door and equal opportunity simply as a convenient means of pursuing their sinister designs of aggression, while constantly keeping their own territories closed to us, the peoples of Asia, denying us the equality of opportunities and impeding our trade, they sought solely their own prosperity.<\/p>\n

ANGLO-AMERICAN IMPERIALISM<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Anglo-American ambition of world hegemony is indeed a\u00a0<\/strong>scourge of mankind and the root of the world’s evils.\u00a0 Movements\u00a0<\/strong>for emancipation have occurred from time to time among the nations and peoples of East Asia, but due to the ruthless and tyrannical armed oppression by America and Britain, or due to their malicious old trick of division and alienation for ruling other\u00a0races, those patriotic efforts ended largely in failure. Meanwhile,\u00a0Japan’s rise of power and prestige was looked upon by\u00a0America\u00a0and Britain with increasing dislike. They made it the cardinal\u00a0point of their East Asia Policy on the one hand, to restrain\u00a0Japan\u00a0at every turn and on the other, to alienate her from the other\u00a0countries of\u00a0East Asia.\u00a0 It was obviously unwise for them to permit\u00a0either the rise of any one country as a great Power or the banding together of the various nations and peoples. These American and British methods became more and more sinister and high-handed, especially in the last several years\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.worldfuturefund.org\/wffmaster\/Reading\/Japan\/tojo%20summit.htm<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Greater East Asia Conference Vol.1\u3000November 5, 1943<\/h2>\n

https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Ue2LjHchY5k<\/a><\/p>\n