http://www.risingsunofnihon.com/japan/485-rats-captured-in-chocolate/ all about gadgets, technology, electronics with Japan in the lead Mon, 22 Mar 2010 06:43:28 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 http://www.risingsunofnihon.com/japan/485-rats-captured-in-chocolate/comment-page-1/#comment-2736 konstantine Tue, 10 Jul 2007 13:24:21 +0000 http://www.risingsunofnihon.com/?p=4653#comment-2736 <p>In my opinion it is preposterous to assume that the species of Rattus norvegicus (common brown rat) arrived in Japan on a US ship. The arrival of rats in Japan pre-dates both the modern US as a country and the formation of the US Navy (both recent, 20th century creations). Is the website making the assumption that the presence of brown rats in Japan is less than a couple of hundred years old? Prove it!<br /> If you do have to blame some gai-jin (and why wouldn't you after all, you are Japanese :) for a natural phenomenon such as the spread of a successfully reproductive species throughout the world, then you should point at the English and Portuguese ships that reached Japan at the end of the M. Ages (in case you're wondering what that is I'm talking about 14th-15th centuries AD, that is HUNDREDS OF YEARS AGO).<br /> Any respectable news source that I'm aware of checks the historical accuracy of the information it posts. I would recommend that this website does the same and stop posting ethnocentric information based on cultural biases.<br /> </p> In my opinion it is preposterous to assume that the species of Rattus norvegicus (common brown rat) arrived in Japan on a US ship. The arrival of rats in Japan pre-dates both the modern US as a country and the formation of the US Navy (both recent, 20th century creations). Is the website making the assumption that the presence of brown rats in Japan is less than a couple of hundred years old? Prove it!
If you do have to blame some gai-jin (and why wouldn’t you after all, you are Japanese for a natural phenomenon such as the spread of a successfully reproductive species throughout the world, then you should point at the English and Portuguese ships that reached Japan at the end of the M. Ages (in case you’re wondering what that is I’m talking about 14th-15th centuries AD, that is HUNDREDS OF YEARS AGO).
Any respectable news source that I’m aware of checks the historical accuracy of the information it posts. I would recommend that this website does the same and stop posting ethnocentric information based on cultural biases.

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