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Japanese Art before the nukes:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dream_of_the_Fisherman's_Wife
Just a few days ago, it hit me on some new level that we fucking NUCLEAR BOMBED a country. TWICE.
We are literally the only country that has done that. And it’s just sort-of this fun footnote of history. “Fine, maybe that was a whoopsie, but blah blah blah something about land invasion blah blah blah. Our baaaaad!”
France nuclear bombed Algeria lots of times and nobody makes such a big deal of it.
Maybe because instead of dropping them on cities they dropped them in the Sahara desert?
Meh. Details!
TIL.
It’s called bigger gun diplomacy
I mean tbf, while I do hate how civillians die from it, it was mostly the imperial japanese government’s fault.
The japanese soldiers were committing massacress on my homeland (China) and if the US hadn’t nuked japan, a lot more people would’ve died by the hands of those imperialist pigs (the soldiers i mean, I have nothing against japanese civillians). It would’ve takes months and perhaps years to actually invade japan, all that while japan commits mass rapes, pillaging, looting on my homeland. I mean national pride and “honor” is a strong thing in many East Asian countries, even in current timeline, we still had a lot of Japanese Holdout, without the nukes, Japan would’ve not surrended for many years and all those years of suffering for all those people in occupied areas by the imperial japanese military around Asia. And even with the first nuke, they didn’t fucking surrender until the US had to do it again.
RIP to the innocent civillians at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, but its their government’s fault for waging this war of destruction.
Deserved
Still a war crime against civilians.
US dropped notices for days ahead of the bombing. warning of the imminent danger and horrific results of a nuclear bomb.
many didn’t believe in the warnings as they had been disillusioned by their government.
the rest is history.
edit: looks like I touched a nerve but you can’t argue facts.
https://ahf.nuclearmuseum.org/ahf/key-documents/warning-leaflets/
I wouldn’t say “deserved”, civillians don’t “deserve” dying in a destructibe war waged by their government. It was just a lesser evil.
I mean… It was essentially the occupation that did it. The Americans effectively colonised Japan after the war, wiping away the previous culture and going “No, you believe THIS now. You get to keep the Emperor because I’m feeling nice, but if there’s a part of your culture I don’t like, I’m getting rid of it whether you like it or not”.
…Turns out there was quite a lot of Japanese culture at the time that needed wiping out, and the Americans were very effective at doing it.
It’s kinda interesting how two different approaches to conquering ex-authoritarian states concluded. In Germany, it was all about collective guilt and confronting the German people about the holocaust. In Japan? Not so much. They kinda just swept all those atrocities under the rug with a “That was the old me! This is the new me, right? I did what you wanted Mr America! I’m on your side now!”. Maybe it was the fact that Japan was conquered wholesale by the US and could be put together as a more cohesive front against the Communist Chinese, whereas Germany was split into two and needed to be kept in line to avoid any grumblings about being Communist?
it wasn’t the occupation that did it, the first anime was released in 1917. japan had been making anime for decades before ww2.
Sure if you want to broaden the definition to “anything that has ever been animated in Japan ever” then sure they’ve been doing anime for decades, but the stuff we would colloquially call ‘anime’ generally kicked off after the war, inspired by American culture. The signature ‘anime’ style is directly inspired by Disney cartoons, and it wasn’t even called anime until the 60s.
For what it’s worth, SeeU is South Korean, not Japanese.
These kinda memes tend to rely on passive prejudice and ignorance to hit.
Not really worth much, still representative 😅
There is something about these cross-eyed anime girls that makes me irrationally angry…
This reminds me of the graph showing nuclear fallout from Chernobyl in the air and the presence of Hentai.
Or the crime activity in Chicago vs yoghurt sales in Norway.
Japanese mythology was pretty gnarly even before the nukes.
Someone tell trump nuclear weapons are DEI and removing them will get him his Nobel peace prize!
Someone tell him they’re underaged girls and he’ll go…fuck them? I don’t know, I didn’t think the analogy through, but he’s a pedophile.
Holy shit I have an image I made from the last time around that is weirdly relevant to this comment:
Must have hit the pixel limit for the month.
the japanese had been making anime for decades before ww2, the first anime film having been released in 1917.
Yeah, sure. Let’s forget about Unit 731, genocide policy in China, union with nazi Germany, annual Yasukuni shrine rutuals, Shintoism, sick nationalism, etc.
https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202408/15/WS66be00dea3104e74fddba322.html
https://virtualworkersofamerica.com/japans-obsession-with-nazi-related-anime/
Sir, this is c/memes
Is this better?
Sure, and I love the great memes that get posted here. But this one distorts history beyond all measure. Japanese militarism in government circles hasn’t gone anywhere, and neither has the desire for revenge. However, the American dropping of atomic bombs on civilians is not a joke either, but an unconcealed genocide. A demonstration of force, first of all, to intimidate opponents from the socialist camp.
It’s a complex situation in Asia. It’s not only Japan that is wary of China. The rest of the region that share a border with China, and there are many of them including my country, are constantly having border disputes with China. As with any country, Japan has its share of loud conservatives that like similar conservative things, and if there’s anything conservatives are good at (and the left is ridiculously bad at), it’s getting into government positions.
why are you talking about china? this is about the war crimes committed throughout asia by japan, and how is conveniently absent from a likely American made meme
The links were China related, and also, except for a few racists, there hasn’t been a rift between Japan and the West for a while now.
Did the “they did a bad thing too!” excuse work with your mother? Because I’m wondering why you think it excuses the bad things America did?
…?
they aren’t even talking about America…
they’re saying that it’s strange to leave out the history of cruelty when Japan has been one of the most brutal, cruel, and disgusting empires in the world.
Honestly overlooking that history sounds like something an American would do. are you the seppo here?
Who said anything about overlooking? Can you point to where I did that?
shouldn’t it be Kaijus after the nukes
Maybe we should nuke the rest if the world too
my god they mutated, but also they modernized, honestley check the history of any country, usa for example: racists who stole a continent > overconfident military bozos who want to steal continents
No, it’s even better that they evolved into another species, although they went a bit overboard. But Japanese girls might taste good though I’m not sure.
Why are you looking at me like that? Haven’t you seen your real self in the mirror?
Sometimes it’s not you who’s looking for a job, but the job that’s looking for you. And sometimes the job isn’t the best, and you’ll be like a walking dead man who’s still breathing, even though you’ll only be a little over 40 and you’ll feel like you’re 80.
Anyway, I was just joking. :3
