Historically speaking why does this always seem to work on a geopolitical angle?
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>>18251366true, but doesn't deflect from my point.
>>18251357Because they made anime and videogames, unironically.
>>18251372Also Japan becoming very developed and creating technology and shit made people forget.
>>18251369Well to answer your question it's because people forget over generations and the winners of war rewrites history in their favor
>>18251372OP here, i have no dislike for Japan at all, I was just wondering why this pattern repeats often.
>>18251382>made people forgetThey didn't even know in the first place. Nobody in the West prior to the Internet age knew about Unit 731 and the Nanking Massacre.And now that it's common knowledge, what do you expect Japan to do? Self-flagellate like the stereotypical cringe American libtards and pay reparations to China, Korea et al until they go broke?
>>18251357Everyone commits war crimes
>>18251357Dune is not a history book, however it includes nice insights on social intrigue.>“When I am weaker than you, I ask you for freedom because that is according to your principles; when I am stronger than you, I take away your freedom because that is according to my principles,”
>>18251406I don't even care and I live in the midwest. Let them do what they want.
>>18251406>And now that it's common knowledge, what do you expect Japan to doAcknowledge it and stop denying it with their Nippon Kaigi bullshit. That's literally all they have to do and want everyone wants them to do but which they're too pigheaded to do.
>>18251406Nanjing is chinese propaganda
>>18251366It did and you are doing it right now
>>18251357It probably has a lot to do with the fact that Japan is now one of America’s closest allies. If there’s one thing to know about U.S. relations with its allies, it’s that they’re rarely subjected to serious criticism—which is why Japan tends to be treated so leniently.
>>18251866Germany
>>18251357>why does this always seem to workYou mean pretending they didn't do war crimes/just ignoring them? The only ones who really care are Korea and China and they're isolated enough (language and culture wise) that the west (global dominant force) don't really care. China in particular is basically seen as 'the enemy' so they're easier to dismiss. >>18251866Also this. US basically speedran the IMTFE to get Japan on their side for the post-war period, partly because of the developing cold war. And these days no one really gives a fuck about war crimes from 100 years ago except to talk about them at school. Even the holocaust is less respected/sacred these days. >>18251406>Nobody in the West prior to the Internet age knew about Unit 731 and the Nanking MassacreExcept for the authors and journalists who wrote a bunch on them in the 1980s-90s. But generally I agree.
>>18252041>Except for the authors and journalists who wrote a bunch on them in the 1980s-90s.There was Iris Chang's Rape of Nanking which was mildly well-known but the vast, vast majority of Westerners didn't know about these books. Japanese war crimes were ignored in cinema and weren't taught in schools in the West. And it's not some sinister systematic coverup to protect a Cold War ally, people just genuinely didn't know or care.
>>18251357Because it works, look at how much russian cock people at 4chins suck despite russians spending the best part of the 20th century undermining western civilization. How the fuck a conservative western citizen can think Russia is his ally after propping North Vietnam, China, the arabs, the blacks, India, the spics while attempting to subvert religious movements? Explain me people like Fuentes, Kirk or Vance? I can understand them hating euros, all welcome, but telling people Putin is some based trad dude? Unless we are talkin a medieval robber baron there is nothing trad about this faggot.
>>18251357"Japanese war crimes" are CCP and GHQ propaganda
>>18251406>Unit 731Soviet propaganda.>Nanking Massacre.Chinese propaganda.
>>18251490Why should they acknowledge a false version of history that's pushed by people who hate them?
>>18251889False equivalency. Germany did commit atrocities during the war, Japan didn't
>>18252048>There was Iris Chang's Rape of NankingRidiculous book filled with lies.
>>18251601I do not believe you
>>18252213It's true. The population of Nanking was 200,000 when the Japanese arrived and increased to 250,000 when the Japanese occupation ended. Therefore it's impossible that 300,000 people were massacred as Chinese propaganda claims
>>18251357Sometimes I wonder if Japanese people feel resentment or shame for basically becoming America's exotic pet. Im not sure nowadays that's still the case, but they are where they are only because the US was relatively gracious and generous on victory after ww2.
