Unfathomably based holy shit
Edit: So a TL;DR is that this was NHK's Chinese-language broadcast, and this Chinese "outsourced employee" who'd been working for NHK radio for literally half his life since the early 2000s, he'd just finished reading a report on how somebody had spray-painted the word "toilet" at the entrance to a shrine honoring a bunch of war criminals and fascist goons — and he just decides right then and there to go off-script for about 20 seconds to state among other things that the Diaoyu Islands belong to China. Like I guess that was just the last straw for him or something.
I do not have a particularly strong opinion on the Diaoyu Islands dispute, I just think that any day is a good day to undermine the "territorial integrity" of Japan. Like the entire prefecture that Japan claims the Diaoyu Islands belong to shouldn't even be part of Japan to begin with.
Japan's news media sucks pretty hard and they have a lot of censorship. That prison island they have is supposed to be a UNESCO protected site or whatever and they keep getting told to actually tell the truth during the tours but they keep censoring the truth. I remember I read this in an Andrew Vltchek article but couldn't find that one, so here's this one instead.
If someone would bother watching the 9-hours long masterpiece of Masaki Kobayashi “The Human Condition”, he or she would have no illusions left about the Japanese position in the world.
China, Korea and other Asian nations were occupied and plundered, people massacred, tortured, experimented on, and raped.
The only thing “in defense” of Japan that could be said is that, unlike its Western allies, it experienced colonialist amok fora relatively short time, compared to the centuries and millennia long barbarism and horror with which Europe has been brutalizing the entire Planet.
Japan was always impressed by Germany. It was inspired by Western medicine, arts and technology. Japan’s“elites” have also been deeply influenced by German perceptions of superiority and exceptionalism.
https://countercurrents.org/2016/06/what-japanese-media-doesnt-want-you-to-say-japan-is-part-of-the-neo-colonialist-clique/
Japan was always impressed by Germany. It was inspired by Western medicine, arts and technology. Japan’s“elites” have also been deeply influenced by German perceptions of superiority and exceptionalism.
