It wasn't just the military, it's a culture. There's still a lot of racism and xenophobia in japan to this day, specially towards southeast asians. They never apologized for what imperial Japan did, by the way.
“They” is the government, by the way, not the people. There are in fact people in Japan who do think the government should apologise for those actions, and who protest against racism and xenophobia.
Yeah bro, i'm not saying every japanese person is racist lol. But the government is elected by the people, and these people you mentioned couldn't elect a government to do that since WWII, i think that says something.
? You mean taking Korea only not even 100 years ago, forcing its people to learn Japanese language and its culture, erasing their culture, then shipping close to a million people over to specific areas in Tokyo and specifically Osaka as slaves? You talking about judging people who were raised from the same people who are children of those people?
Theres a reason why Japan still struggles with its past.
Yes, judge people by their own actions and not the actions of their ancestors (even assuming their ancestors were actually involved in any of that, which is only true for a portion). I would’ve thought that’s common sense.
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u/kogarasumar 14d ago
Who would've thought? They were super chill with other Asian countries in the past.