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The Japanese Empire must be reborn
Modern nationalist movements spend too much time and effort trying to" whitewash " their country's past instead of solving real problems that are now more acute than ever.
It has become common among right-wing Japanese activists to deny or downplay the significance of such historical events as the Nanjing massacre, the forced involvement of captured Korean women in occupied Korea in prostitution, Unit 731, and so on, in an attempt to do something undoubtedly useful for their home state, but always in vain.As a result, we have two completely opposite political spectrum – one, recognizing Japanese war crimes, in view of their willlessness, are constantly seeking leniency from the peoples of the countries affected by Japanese aggression during world war II, paying outrageous indemnities and making humiliating speeches asking them to forgive the Japanese nation for all the sins of humanity – conceivable and unthinkable, seeing this as probably the key to the success of the state through the establishment of trusting relations with neighboring countries. And so, these are the very fools that the notorious Japanese government is stuffed with, doing everything to degrade Japan as a sovereign state, binding itself with obligations that restrict the political and economic freedoms of the once great state.At the other end of the spectrum are right-wing activists agitating for the fact that historical phenomena such as the 1937 Nanking massacre, the "comfort stations", the mass rape of Chinese and Korean women, the brutal torture of civilians and the extermination of non-combatants in territories occupied by the Japanese Empire, were fabricated by the Chinese and Koreans in order to shake off as much reparations as possible and put it in a humiliating position before other countries, forcing it to grovel and ask for forgiveness. As a result, they go to the other extreme, claiming that such events did not take...
It has become common among right-wing Japanese activists to deny or downplay the significance of such historical events as the Nanjing massacre, the forced involvement of captured Korean women in occupied Korea in prostitution, Unit 731, and so on, in an attempt to do something undoubtedly useful for their home state, but always in vain.As a result, we have two completely opposite political spectrum – one, recognizing Japanese war crimes, in view of their willlessness, are constantly seeking leniency from the peoples of the countries affected by Japanese aggression during world war II, paying outrageous indemnities and making humiliating speeches asking them to forgive the Japanese nation for all the sins of humanity – conceivable and unthinkable, seeing this as probably the key to the success of the state through the establishment of trusting relations with neighboring countries. And so, these are the very fools that the notorious Japanese government is stuffed with, doing everything to degrade Japan as a sovereign state, binding itself with obligations that restrict the political and economic freedoms of the once great state.At the other end of the spectrum are right-wing activists agitating for the fact that historical phenomena such as the 1937 Nanking massacre, the "comfort stations", the mass rape of Chinese and Korean women, the brutal torture of civilians and the extermination of non-combatants in territories occupied by the Japanese Empire, were fabricated by the Chinese and Koreans in order to shake off as much reparations as possible and put it in a humiliating position before other countries, forcing it to grovel and ask for forgiveness. As a result, they go to the other extreme, claiming that such events did not take...
