[UA] Lost Territory (Off-Topic)

[Jim Nicholson]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tim Toner
> Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2001 1:42 PM
> Subject: Re: [UA] The Masterless Man/The Wave Man/Japanese Mentality vs.
American

[snip]

>> America hasn't
>> ever lost territory in a war.  America has never been held hostage.  We
>> don't know what it is to serve.  We don't know what it is for that to be
a
>> purpose.
>
> Well, someone's said The War of 1812, where we arguably lost all future
> claim to Canada, and we _have_ lost territories and protectorates
> when they
> decided to go independent on us (the only way England and Japan have lost
> land).

Actually, Japan lost the Kuril Islands to Russia in the wake of WW2 (though
they are trying to get them back and may yet succeed).  There is also some
three-way dispute about the ownership of some small island holdings in the
East China Sea, between Japan and the two Chinas.

Jim



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