Found on /r/sino so no link to the vid but I think this is his channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsn9WDg5JMqN7aZIkMEdrFg/videos

  • MsUltraViolet [she/her]
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    3 years ago

    Isn't modern Japan still very nationalist/racist and not very critical of imperial Japan?

    I could be wrong, but I was under the impression that, as a whole, Japan is still a fairly right wing country, especially in its view of history.

    • CommCat [none/use name]
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      3 years ago

      Their conservative ruling Liberal Democractic Party holds monopoly on power and are constantly rewriting their high school history books to paint Japan's role in WWII in a more positive light. Their politicians including their Prime Minister still prays at the Yakusuni shrine, that houses over 1000 convicted war criminals. Just imagine German politicians rewriting history books and praying to dead Nazis, it would cause immense anger in Germany and throughout the Western World, but in Japan it's only slightly controversial.

      • Slowpoke [none/use name]
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        3 years ago

        Yakusuni shrine houses ALL Japanese war dead. It's like complaining that the US president prayed at Arlington National Cemetery.

          • Slowpoke [none/use name]
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            3 years ago

            Yes, all military are buried there. The Japanese are still digging up beaches in the Pacific and transferring the bones to Yakusuni for burial. It's not like they're going to War Criminal Cemetery and cackling while they have a Black Mass in honor of Unit 731.

            • CommCat [none/use name]
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              3 years ago

              That's why China and Korea still feels their apology for their WWII crimes is half assed, as long as Convicited War Criminals are treated the same as other war dead