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by mr_overalls 2598 days ago
I'm not going to support the gross generalization that an entire country needs to be humbled, BUT: the shrine is a flashpoint of Japanese ultra-nationalism, which is on the rise.

Common ultra-nationalist beliefs are fairly odious: e.g. Japan should be applauded for liberating much of East Asia from Western colonial powers, the 1946-1948 Tokyo War Crimes tribunals were illegitimate, and the killings by Imperial Japanese troops during the 1937 "Nanjing massacre" were exaggerated or fabricated.
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tauwauwau 2598 days ago
Regarding illegitimacy, in absence of any laws anything can be legal (no laws) but not moral. Just going to leave it here

Tokyo Trial https://www.netflix.com/in/title/80091880

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YeGoblynQueenne 2597 days ago
Those things are true, but the OP said that "Japan" has to be taken down.

As a not unrelated aside, nationalism is on the rise everywhere and if this doesn't change there will be new wars and possibly another (very) big one. I am personally freaked out very much by the rise of nationalism in the EU where I live. I'm not one to trivialise waving flags at a war memorial.

But- again, why does this indict the entire of Japan? Are all Japanese likely to go wave imperial flags at Meiji?

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