On Tuesday, Japan’s parliament installed Sanae Takaichi, the new leader of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), as prime minister. The elevation to power of this ultra-nationalist, pro-war figure comes with a new ruling coalition that is rapidly pushing establishment politics even further to the right.
Is it true she said japan did nothing wrong during WW2?
The taught their schoolchildren that they’re liberators during WW2. It led to some funny interactions between hololive JP and ID members during Indonesia’s independence day.
It really pisses off the rest of Asia, that Japan won’t truly acknowledge their atrocities.
yeah that’s real shitty tbh. I just took japan at face value that they were like “uh yeah we fucked up sorry we did bad shit it was our fault”. damm
I don’t think that’s an uncommon view in Japan? Germany educated their people about the horrors and made sure to show nazis in a negative light. Japan didn’t do any of that AFAIK? They even kept emperor Hirohito.
Yeah that’s my understanding roughly.
What the fuck. Will do some reading on this. I was under the impression they denounced ala Germany but I never really looked into that specific thing.
They promote it/have a bunch of memorials.
wow. that’s crazy.