I SAID IT! FUCK JAPAN! It's the uninterrupted continuation of Imperial Japan, and it unilaterally deserves it's just condemnation for the horror it's wrecked across Asia.
I SAID IT! FUCK JAPAN! It's the uninterrupted continuation of Imperial Japan, and it unilaterally deserves it's just condemnation for the horror it's wrecked across Asia.
I’m not the best expert on Japanese history and I don’t even pretend to understand all the ins and outs of it. Any culture is to complex and filled with to many moving parts for me to feel confident ascribing a single cause to something. I’m just some weeb, but I think approaching cultures like they are their own things all with their great parts and horrid parts is the right away to go. I’m not saying your wrong by the way, but it also isn’t something that was tainted by those evil westerners either and it was good before. The problems were just different because of the way dialectics were unfolding and it had some pretty disastrous consequences.
Nah I approach the whole thing from a historical amoral stance since this is all stuff that has happened and can not be changed but can be observed as how it impacts the modern era.
The fault of Japan's change with the Meiji restoration, aka Japan's great opening up to the outside world, is that the new imperial government that arose from the Boshin War reacted in recoil to how vast the world was and how they were a minnow in an ocean of sharks. Their choice to pursue modernization, imperialization and westernization is understandable in context that those who do not oppress are in turn oppressed themselves.