Not going to argue with that. There are of course issues with those things too.

why, some of us do make that argument, and have noticed similarities in our recent love of korean media. there were a few years there in the 2000s that made it look like problematic indian media was going to take up the mantle, so that probably deserves a special mention, even if korea eventually eclipsed them.

An estimated 14,000 people were killed inside the facility itself.  In addition, biological weapons developed by Unit 731 caused the deaths of at least 200,000 people in Chinese cities and villages, through deliberate contamination of water supplies, food, and agricultural land.

After the war, twelve Unit 731 members were tried by the USSR in the 1949 Khabarovsk war crimes trials and sentenced to prison. However, many key figures, including Ishii, were granted immunity by the United States in exchange for their research data.

Yeah I've heard of that too. Hard to put into words the levels of evil.

I feel the same about Japan. China got bullied right from the first point of contact with Europeans right through to the end of WW2. They even have the term "century of humiliation" to describe the worst period of it. But nobody is able to bully them anymore, and that has been the case ever since the founding of the PRC in 1949.

The Chinese people can now defend themselves from imperialist aggression, and Japan would do well not to try anything, because they no longer have a controlling stake in China's future.

Is so fascinating how barely no one knows shit about Unit 731, even in manga/anime they never reference this. Nazi imagery and treating them as villains do happen but I can only remember 2 times that Unit 731 receive this treatment. One is some novel from Bleach and the other one I can't point exactly, I think is Jujutsu but I could be wrong, but is some modern shounen/seinen.

For a social studies class in high school we got paired up to do group assignments where we had to do a PowerPoint about a country and talk about 3 different things. We got Japan and went with Unit 731, Yukio Mishima and Aum Shinrikyo. We had decided ahead of time, no matter the country we'd find the darkest shit we could. Japan was like...the best random pick we could have gotten. I think all the countries in the hat were western allies