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!! please retweet !! i’m very tired of white weebs ignoring the harm japanese imperialism has done to china, korean, and south-east asia so fucking read this thread
1. Japanese imperialism is commonly recognised through the rising sun flag, which is the equivalent of the swastika to Chinese, Koreans and SEAsians and its brutal history often goes overlooked by western societies
2. These symbols, and Japanese imperialism in turn are condemned because of the war crimes committed in their name by Japan during the Second Sino-Japanese War/WWII https://apjjf.org/2016/01/4-Baird.html
3. Women were r*ped and kept as sex slaves under the Japanese army as ‘comfort women’ and never had it acknowledged by the Japanese government after the war https://twitter.com/alyssadalila/status/1294884073433780224?s=21
4. Japan has not apologised for its war crimes and uses soft manipulation to hide their transgressions and appeal to other Asian countries today https://www.globalasia.org/v6no1/feature/cool-japan-soft-power_asger-røjle-christensen
5. Japan conceals its military crimes in its education system today and absolves itself of blame https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-21226068
6. The Japanese army attempted to brainwash SEAsians into believing they were our saviours despite committing genocide against and mass r*ping our people
7. Japanese imperialism not only harms Southeast Asians, Chinese and Koreans but is also linked into antisemitism https://twitter.com/ribbozi/status/1356005340450459648?s=21
8. Japanese imperialism and even Nazism continues to be romanticised by anime today, combining Japanese soft power with subliminal manipulation to glorify its wrongdoing https://dragonsdragonz.tumblr.com/post/140734905552/on-lychee-light-club
9. As a mixed Chinese and Indonesian person, just for speaking up about this I have received death threats and accusations of racefaking / being ‘ungrateful’ for the ‘help’ Japan gave my country and that I’m not a true Indo for despising Japan. Japanese have sent me death threats
in my DMs and my curiouscat for talking about how my Uyut and other family members were affected in the war and white weaboos are content to ignore Japanese imperialism in favour of romanticising it as a pure ‘paradise’- which plays into sinophobia, racism against south and
southeast asians, and other ethnic minorities in japan as a result.
If I have missed anything here please DM me with your concerns or send them to my curiouscat so I can add to the thread https://curiouscat.qa/swanbrosia
another important thread https://twitter.com/vivisextion/status/1356516946821447681
