There has been a tendency in recent years to portray Asians as the "model minority." Many Americans even think that Asians are better than Whites at math and science. Out of over two billion Asians, only a tiny percentage have been allowed into America. Many of the early Asian immigrants to America were engineers so naturally their children are going to have some talent at math and science. In recent years, America has been invaded by less talented, ordinary Asians so the Democrats can get more votes. Seattle has significant problems with Filipino gangs. California has Chinese and Vietnamese gangs. To get a better estimate of Asians, it may be good to take a close look at the most successful Asian nation, Japan. Japan is the most technologically advanced nation in Asia, but a review of their history reveals some significant shortcomings compared to White nations.

From 1492 to 1941, White civilization had spread all over the world, and White inventors had built steam ships, the telegraph, railways, and the automobile. During this time, Asia was pretty much in a backward state or occupied by European colonial powers except for Japan. Japan had successfully brought its navy up to European standards and won a naval war against the Russian Pacific fleet in 1905. By 1941, Japan thought that it had advanced enough to defeat the United States.

One of the most significant tests of a nation's intellectual power (before the atomic bomb) was its creativity and inventiveness during a prolonged war. During the Civil War, White inventors developed armored steamships, repeating rifles, Gatling guns, the first successful submarine, naval mines, balloon observation, and improved mass production. During World War One, Europeans and White Americans invented fighter aircraft, bomber aircraft, Zeppelins, tanks, artillery that could fire over 70 miles range, and poison gas. Did Japan develop a series of impressive new inventions during World War Two? No, they pretty much finished the war with the same technology that they copied from the West before the war. Japan fell badly behind America in every field of technology until they lost the war, and the Japanese leadership made one terrible strategic decision after another.

By December 1941, Japan was facing an oil embargo by the United States (as FDR attempted to provoke a war with Japan.) Japan's ally Germany had reached the outskirts of Moscow by then and had destroyed much of the Red Army and Air Force. Japan could have invaded the Soviet Union from the east and completely collapsed that superpower, eliminating a major enemy of the Axis powers. The Soviet oil reserves then could have supplied the Japanese Navy so that their oil crisis would have been solved. The Japanese leaders, however, failed to see the value in this course of action.

During 1941, Germany had been repeatedly provoked by FDR, who had secretly supplied England and the Soviet Union with guns, tanks, and planes in violation of the U.S. Neutrality Act. Germany's leadership understood that a war with the United States could tip the balance of power against them. (Despite all the propaganda about "war being inevitable" for the U.S., the Germans hoped the U.S. would stay out of the war and be a future trading partner after the war.) The Japanese leadership failed to see the logic in finishing off the Soviet Union, and made the fatal mistake of attacking a neutral superpower, the United States.

Before the war even began, English and American code-breakers had deciphered the Japanese Naval codes. (FDR wanted to get the U.S. into World War Two so he failed to warn Pearl Harbor of the coming Japanese attack.) The Japanese failed to change their Naval codes leading to their defeat at the Battle of Midway and the death of their best leader Admiral Yamamoto when U.S. fighters shot down his transport plane. The Germans, in contrast, were able to keep their codes secret for much of the early war period until an Enigma decoding machine was captured off a U-Boat by the Allies. The Germans reestablished the secrecy of their codes late in the war and carried out a surprise attack that led to the "Battle of the Bulge."

One of the most significant signs of the scientific genius of a nation is the quality of the fighter aircraft that they produce. During the war, the Japanese made only one significant improvement beyond the Mitsubishi Zero fighter. The United States started the war with the P40 and F4F Wildcat fighters and then developed the P39, P38, P47, and the P51, which were increasingly better fighters. The Navy developed the Corsair and the F6F Hellcat, which were superior to the Japanese Zero. The one significant Japanese improvement over the Zero was the Nakajima Ki 44 "Tojo" fighter, which maintained a parity with the F6F Hellcat and the P39, but that was their last successful attempt to even match American fighters. By 1943, Japan was hopelessly behind in fighter technology and never recovered.

The Japanese actually had access to German technology, but failed to take advantage of this. Several German subs carried blueprints and a disassembled FW190 fighter to Japan. A high altitude, pressurized Ju 290 transport plane made three round trip flights over the Soviet Union to Japan during the war delivering blue prints for secret weapons. The Japanese had only been able to build a prototype of the German Me 262 by the end of the war. The Germans had put jet fighters into production and into combat by Fall of 1944 almost a year before the Japanese finally finished a prototype.

Comparing Japan to Germany at the end of World War Two gives some indication of how little Japan's technology had accomplished. When Germany lost the war in May, 1945, (due primarily to Japan bringing America into the war) the Germans had jet fighter aircraft that could fly at 540mph and rocket fighters that could fly at over 600mph. The Germans had surface to air missiles, V1 cruise missiles, V2 ballistic missiles, the best tanks in the world, and a nuclear bomb project, whose level of progress may not yet be fully disclosed to the public even today.

When Japan lost the war in August 1945, their best production fighter could not exceed 400 mph, their tanks were obsolete by 1942 standards, and their kamikaze planes were so slow that they were more and more likely to be detected by radar and shot down by American fighters before getting near their targets. Japanese cities were essentially defenseless against American bomber attacks. The Japanese had an A-bomb project that had benefited from German research, but which still fell short. In May 1945, a German submarine carrying several tons of Uranium and a German nuclear scientist was in the Atlantic headed for Japan, but the captain decided to surrender when Germany lost the war.

It is hard to imagine how the myth of "Asian Superiority" still stands up especially in light of the poor performance of Japan during World War Two. Most of the technology for their fighters and warships had been copied from the West. Their fighters and weapons showed little improvement throughout the war (even though German designs were made available to them.) Their top leadership made incredibly bad strategic decisions, failing to finish off the Soviet Union and giving in to FDR's obvious provocations. The Japanese suffered from a delusion that the United States would sign an armistice after suffering a few naval defeats. The long brutal American Civil War should have been a clear warning to any potential adversary that the U.S. was likely to keep fighting a war for years. The Japanese are widely regarded as the best of the Asians, but their performance in World War Two suggests that they failed miserably when it came to inventing new technology and their strategic decisions were equally unimpressive.



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