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Why is Japan never criticized for WW2?

posted 11 years ago by DeutschlandUberAlles
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No one has ever really taken Japan to task over WW2 in the same way Germany has been or even the British have been over the British Empire.

The official policy in many aspects of Japanese public life is to deny the Nanking massacre and to act extremely defensively towards anyone who suggests that Japan was in the wrong.

Japan's attitudes haven't really changed that much today. Chinese and Korean residents of Japan are still looked down on as second class citizens and often have difficulty in applying for Japanese citizenship.

Japan's history is one of the most violent and destructive in the modern era and yet compared to Germany and the UK, they have got off lightly.

No one ever judges Japan in the light of WW2, yet Germany is judged in the light of WW2 all the time and the UK is judged in the light of the British Empire.

The fact of the matter is Japan remains a racist country that refuses to accept responsibility for its past atrocities.

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[–] ll-rr 9 years ago

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[–] julesrulesny 9 years ago

I know this is an old post but deserves a response... there is NO question Japan is well known for its war atrocities. Its war. and Bad things happen...

and as much as Germany has paid so has Japan.. maybe even more so. JAPAN still barely has a military bc of wwii and its 70 yrs later. They self imposed a law that they themselves can never make nuclear weapons or fire bomb (napalm) bc they were victims to both during the war and swore they would never inflict upon any enemy to what was done to them... millions are aware of the japanese pow camps, the death march in the Philippines..etc. its important to note this was a difft time and the good ole USA committed war crimes too in todays standards.. Gen. Lemay and his fire bombing runs over Tokyo and hundreds of Japanese cities n towns killed more innocent civilians than any point in the war.. in fact the fire bombing raids done by the US, killed more people in a few days than Hiroshima and Nagasaki atom boms combined... so when i say Japan paid they paid dearly and then some and are still paying the price to some extent..

as far as them being racist? They are probly no more or less racist than here in the US. But bsck then, like the NAZIs they genuinely felt they were inferior people to the rest of the world..

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[–] cartoongirls 8 years ago

I've been going through WW2 film boards asking the same question. All I get is flamed, people still think Hitler is the most evil person to exist, while in reality the crimes committed by the Nazis look like child splay compared to the Japanese.

But I disagree with your answer. There's enough material out there. I guess most people are misinformed. The media (controlled in the US by the you know who) tends to focus more on the Nazis. Simply compare the number of films and documentaries about Nazis and Imperial Japan.

[–] Satan2016 (23334) 6 years ago

The Left focuses on the Nazis to divert from the Commies. The Nazis were white supremacists but the Japanese were ?? supremacists. And Norm Chomsky says the Americans were the bad guys.

[–] ChuckFindlay (392) 6 years ago

And the right focuses on trying to get Roy Moore elected. You know, that guy accused by 30 women that he proposed sex or actually had sex with them in the teens. Some as low as 14.

When will scum like you figure out that it’s not about left and right? Silly trump supporter.

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[–] jlam888 (574) 6 years ago

In the west we naturally hear mostly Western/white people talk about this stuff and with our PC climate most people are hesitant to point out non whites for committing atrocitites.