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[-] Sanctus@lemmy.world 163 points 5 months ago
[-] norbert@kbin.social 156 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Yeah a lot of people might not be aware just how heinous Japans actions were in The Second Sino-Japanese War (the Chinese War of Resistance) in the lead-up to Asias involvement in WWII.

The Rape of Ninjing and Unit 731 are just two of the atrocities we know of.

Implying that Japan is now "back for more" and with frens this time is indeed pretty dark.

[-] frickineh@lemmy.world 43 points 5 months ago

I think that's probably true - Japan has such a sanitized reputation now (which, frankly, isn't entirely deserved), and most people probably don't ever take a history class after high school, so a lot of people probably genuinely don't know how bad it was. I did a little over 3 years of an undergrad history major and never heard a word about it. The only reason I know anything about it is because my AP US History teacher in high school told a few of us about it after a class on WWII. I had nightmares about some of the pictures for a few nights. I see why they don't generally teach it to kids.

[-] Titou@sh.itjust.works 9 points 5 months ago

Let me correct you, only otakus didn't known. Japan is known to be worst than germany in thoses old times

[-] OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml 32 points 5 months ago

Comfort Women are up there too. Japan was twisted af

[-] Anticorp@lemmy.world 17 points 5 months ago

Yeah a lot of people might not be aware just how heinous Japans actions were in The Second Sino-Japanese War

Or at a thousand other points in their history with China.

[-] noxy@yiffit.net 17 points 5 months ago

I only recently learned about Unit 731 and I wish I hadn't. It's that fucking bad. Shit keeps me up at night if I allow myself to think about it.

[-] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 16 points 5 months ago

A group of humans so bad the nazis saved people from them

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[-] TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 14 points 5 months ago

Yeah a lot of people might not be aware just how heinous Japans actions were in The Second Sino-Japanese War

Unless if you're from Asia.

[-] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 7 points 5 months ago

Let's not forget the entire colonization of Korea.

[-] CptEnder@lemmy.world 22 points 5 months ago

The Imperial flag too 👀

[-] xx3rawr@sh.itjust.works 11 points 5 months ago

It's actually their Navy flag that's still in use

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[-] Socsa@sh.itjust.works 15 points 5 months ago

Lol imagine being so edgy that NCD says "pump the brakes bruh."

Apparently this is more controversial than mommy milkers on an airplane.

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[-] prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works 107 points 5 months ago

Japan isn’t actually demilitarized, they have gundams under the mountains.

Everyone knows this.

[-] Default_Defect@midwest.social 11 points 5 months ago

I'm more worried about the potential of seeing Evangelion units.

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[-] TranscendentalEmpire@lemm.ee 61 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

with frens

I think this needs an asterisk, pretty sure South Korea and the Philippines would be happy if Japan and China somehow simultaneously destroyed each other.

Edit: astrix to asterisk. Sorry, English isn't my first language. I mean it's been my primary for nearly 30 years, but it's still a bitch sometimes.

[-] FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today 35 points 5 months ago

The average SK citizen doesn't really hate the Japanese, they just want their damn artifacts back. After all, it's difficult to say the largest instantaneous loss of life in human history wasn't punishment enough.

[-] TranscendentalEmpire@lemm.ee 31 points 5 months ago

The average SK citizen doesn't really hate the Japanese, they just want their damn artifacts back.

I think you'd be surprised, we've been hating the Japanese since the 1600s.

After all, it's difficult to say the largest instantaneous loss of life in human history wasn't punishment enough.

Up to 30k Koreans being used as slave labour were killed in the atomic blast.... We don't typically see that as squaring everything away, especially considering the modern Japanese government is made up of the children of war criminals who continue denying their parents many crimes against humanity.

[-] NegativeLookBehind@lemmy.world 26 points 5 months ago
[-] Gsus4@mander.xyz 19 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Asterix, like my boss used to say 😐

[-] xx3rawr@sh.itjust.works 10 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Philippines would not want to see Japan hurt. We are taught about the ugly history for most of our childhood but the general public is pro-Japan in the present. Pop culture aside, they funded projects and research without much debt traps and is curently much less evil than what China is doing these past decades.

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[-] Coasting0942@reddthat.com 34 points 5 months ago

It’s a nice meme but their population is turning geriatric, and they’re literally unable to pass any policies to make the birth rate go up.

[-] sukhmel@programming.dev 70 points 5 months ago

population is turning geriatric

So… the Japanese will not only fight China, but that's going to be the very same Japanese that invaded China last time?

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[-] njm1314@lemmy.world 23 points 5 months ago

Oh I don't like this

[-] Zehzin@lemmy.world 11 points 5 months ago

Isn't Japan like super demilitarized?

[-] BombOmOm@lemmy.world 50 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Kinda. They do have fun stuff like a cruiser that has a flat deck and carries aircraft, not an aircraft carrier (!!!), a cruiser. And they have been rearming the last two years as it becomes clear their neighbors might need a stick, or at least the threat of one.

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[-] FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today 7 points 5 months ago

They have a navy but it operates as an arm of the US Military, more or less. There are 23 US Military Bases in Japan with 53,973 troops or about a third of the USA's deployed troops worldwide.

[-] MBM@lemmings.world 11 points 5 months ago

Isn't fren one of those words used by 4chan as a dogwhistle? Feels a bit icky when talking about WW2 Japan

[-] Gsus4@mander.xyz 7 points 5 months ago

urban dictionary says it stands Far-Right-Ethno-Nationalist turns out you're probably right. But I like saying frens 😅

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[-] CptEnder@lemmy.world 9 points 5 months ago

BY GOD, IT'S INDIA FROM THE WEST!

[-] setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months ago

Hey wait a minute, that isn't PLA07 Desert pattern. This shit post is a phony.

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