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Stalin shouldnt have stopped at Manchuria.
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We should have got ridden of nationalism after WWII but we did not. I find it rather "logical" that with how the world is turning out under capitalism that the most ugly side of nationalism is having a comeback (pretty much in all countries that celebrate capitalism, aka the west).
Not sure how it is in other countries but in Germany we have to constantly hear how our nation and our way of life is at risk. Every propaganda piece tries to make our NATION out to be something glorious, something worth dying and killing over. How could people not become moronic nationalists and live in this society? The only way of losing my nationalism was to reject what society offers and I got to be honest, it is kind of lonely here. Actually finding ways to change people or things about this country is very hard and people who do have my utmost respect.
Anyways, I don't see anything special here. Just standard western nationalism-exceptionalism if that makes sense. It however is shameful how Japan ignores or even glorifies its past. Pretending to be critical would probably not make a big difference (looking at you Germany 😠).
I think it's more than that.
Symbols associated with colonial projects can bring up a lot of generational trauma in countries that were on the receiving end of the atrocities performed by past colonizers. This is something that is easy to overlook for outsiders from countries without that history.
The effects of Imperial Japan on the East Asian countries were significant, particularly for China. Remember, WWII began in the 1920s for China and arguably half of the fighting for the entire war occurred in China along with war crimes and atrocities or imperialism that were never repaired and are largely overlooked in the West. Some countries in the region managed to eject imperial Japan just to have the Western Allies bring the same Japanese officers right back to run their new colonial projects after "liberating" the East.
The hard feelings toward Japan are deeply rooted in a bloody and violent history of subjugation that has never seen apologies or reparations made. While US POWs can say they too experienced trauma from imperial Japan, it's nothing compared to what the people of East Asia experienced every day in their homes. The trauma has a different, deeper nature and this is easy to overlook from an outside perspective when viewing the original post.