Sikhs and Jains also use it, so I should add those to the list. As far as I can tell Japanese maps use swastikas to mark out Buddhist temples, while Shinto shrines have a tori gate symbol.
Shinto is a folk religion that outdates Imperial Japan by centuries. I don't think it's necessarily fair to paint believers of Shinto with that wide of a brush for the exploitative distortions of State Shintoism. No more so than it is fair to paint Muslims with a broad brush for the bullshit ISIS uses Islam to justify.
Oh yeah, Japan as a whole is totally fine with being part of the Axis. To the point where it would probably make most Germans and Italians very uncomfortable.
An exhaustive list of people who I tolerate that argument from:
That's it.
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Sikhs and Jains also use it, so I should add those to the list. As far as I can tell Japanese maps use swastikas to mark out Buddhist temples, while Shinto shrines have a tori gate symbol.
Shinto is a folk religion that outdates Imperial Japan by centuries. I don't think it's necessarily fair to paint believers of Shinto with that wide of a brush for the exploitative distortions of State Shintoism. No more so than it is fair to paint Muslims with a broad brush for the bullshit ISIS uses Islam to justify.
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Oh yeah, Japan as a whole is totally fine with being part of the Axis. To the point where it would probably make most Germans and Italians very uncomfortable.
Hey remember when that famous war crimes denier got got? :the-doohickey:
Yeah, if your genocidal mass murdering world conquering empire allied with the Nazis you lose your swastika pass.