Yes, How about:

Seventy eight year old Japanese Emperor undergoes successful heart surgery.

I don't think proofreading was necessarily outsourced to China. Have you seen how kids write today? It looks to me like some new Internet dweeb, just barely out of college who can barely write.

The latter is the shameful truth, Warren.

Pointing,

Not all Internet "dweeb"'s are illiterate, however this is most likely the result of the crappy education system we have; so I will give you points for that.

As for the article I am right there with Jwrite.

Ooh... first time EVER that I've seen msnbc.msn.com make a correction as a result of a comment, mine or anyone else's. Proves someone in Chengdu or Chongqing is watching....

Warren,

I have seen it happen before, but not often.

We didn't hang his father Hirohito for war crimes. The view by both the Imperial palace and the American Occupation Forces (McArthur) was that Hirohito was a figurehead and had little conyrol over the military. It was also necessary to use Hirohito to ease the transition from occupation to constitutional monarchy. Hirohito died in 1989. Akihito acceeded the throne in 1990.

I think opening your eyes is a necessary factor since history seems to escape you. Tet 1968, My Lai same year. Japanese internment camps of the 1940s. Imprisonment and sexual molestation of innocent Iraqi civilians, 2008. Even earlier, the slaughter of innocent Native American blood during the Western Expansion by a "civilized" people. Look in the mirror before you accuse another country's DEAD REGIME of "crimes against humanity" when America has done far, far worse to countries all around the world, including their own people, than Japan ever could.

Please, for the love of God, shut up and read a history book!

Hypocrisy is common in religious zealots. I do not believe in any gods or a god that you refer to in your posting. I believe in the science. I do not believe in angels, devils, heavens, hells, witches, ghosts nor gods. I am agnostic since I was 10 yo. It has got nothing to do with the fact a close relative of mine was fmr. publisher of Popular Science mag. there at Times Mirror, Inc. 380 Madison Ave., NYC and with 35---40 other magazines with worldwide circulations including fmr. President & CEO of Russell Johns Limited out of Clearwater, Florida largest national publishers in the USA. Try to read it RELIGION IS A GIGANTIC FRAUD by James Hervey Johnson, just GOOGLE it.

My understanding is that the jap fighters were cowards and scattered like flys when our battleships parked just off the shore fired off a few rounds with their cannons. Another jap fighter hid inside a cave for 40 years because he thought the war was still going on.

Our military forces do not cut off the heads of the prisoners we take in Iraq and Afghanistan like they do if they capture our own people including journalists just reporting the news. We do not bury IED's in the roads to blow off the arms/legs of our military forces like they do in the middle eastern countries. We are civilized people.

With Viet Nam we had to dump a little of that stuff around to root out the enemy as they simply dug tunnels and hid inside them. Our military people you can be proud of them, they do not turn tail and run in the opposite direction. They are more than willing to die for our country, the greatest country in the World, the USA. Then our wounded come back here and get mistreated in med. facilities such as Walter Reed hospital which showed the rest rooms and shower areas full of mold.

With the internment camps we had to do that for a short time just to protect our own people from these japanese people who gave us Pearl Harbor. Our military forces never ever bayoneted innocent babies anywhere in the World like the japanese fighters did to the filipino babies.

Cdviking, Where the heck did the religious topic come from?

You are blinded by your loyalty to your country, I understand that you love your country, but you have to realize, either on purpose or by ignorance, you are acting like a fool and a hypocrite. The crimes you state have been commited by ALL countries. Don't act like America is the most innocent thing ever.

I love America more than anyone, fact, but you have to know that the US isn't as perfect as you believe, our leaders have harmed many people and told many lies to us, solely to achieve their goals. In fact, I'd be willing to bet that the closest we've ever gotten to a truely uncorrupt government was in the first 50 years of our country's history.

Read what you have said, then look at history, your wrong man. Give it in.

Thanks Wesley for your input. But I never brought the religious issue up, it was Kietero who did in his posting.

I have also been to the Philippines several years back just for a couple months visit. In the city areas English is common. In the rural areas Tagalog and Visayan is common. So these filipinos informed me of lots of horriffic nightmarish scenario stuff that went on in their country including when the japanese were present. It makes no difference if it happened 10 years ago or 150 years ago it never ever should have happened.

To----Ed-NavDoc....Since you have never met me in person it is essentially a subjective not objective evaluation. Therefore it is a moot/mute point.

Ed-NavDoc.......Thanks for your input. I am proud of you for your service to our country, 20 year Navy vet. I suppose you could write a book on your experiences in the military.

For myself I have pulled 48 ft. trailers in 48 states and dealt with thousands of shippers and consignees many of whom had been in the military services. They informed of their experiences in the military and I would have no reason to doubt them.

I don't have a degree in World History like you. I have mostly courses in psychology, human services, criminal justice, counseling theory and process, early childhood education. One professor inquired to see my transcript looked at it for a few seconds and informed me it was like a Master's degree. I am also interested in health sciences and got an E. M. T. certificate.