Armenian-japanese Link?

[hagopn]

A friend just notified me of this entry from a book entitled Sentimental Imperialists--The American Experience in East Asia" by James C. Thomson, Jr., Peter W. Stanley, John Curtis Perry. Page 143:

 

"From the American perspective, however, the Japanese desire was in fact profoundly threatening. The same country that was pre-empting part of Asia territorially was now challenging the United States culturally and economically across the Pacific. Japanese even had their own millenarian mythology to counteract the American talk of a westward course of empire. In the Japanese version, the original seat of civilization had been in Armenia and Persia. From there two streams of culture had flowed out in opposite directions: one culminating in what Uchimura Kanzo called "democratic, aggressive, inductive America" and the other in "imperial, conservative, deductive China."

 

This is quite an interesting twist. I had heard rumors of this and how even former Prime Minister Nakasone was interested and had written an article on the topic of Armenian origins to al civilization.

[Armen]

That was quite a surprise I must say. When I clicked on the thread I thought I'm going to read a recipe for Urfa Shish Sushi.

[hagopn]

That was quite a surprise I must say. When I clicked on the thread I thought I'm going to read a recipe for Urfa Shish Sushi.

 

Is this meant as humor or insult? Forgive me for not understanding, but this is ambiguous.

[HyeFedayis]

LOL

[HyeFedayis]

"Gamkrelidze and Ivanov's hypothesis for placing the PIE homeland in the general

region of Transcaucasia and eastern Turkey received further linguistic confirmation in a study at my home base-the University of Pennsylvania by Donald Ringe, Ann Taylor, and Tandy Warrow."

 

Source:Ancient Wine: The Search for the Origins of Viniculture - Page 33 by Patrick Edward McGovern