
like if u know that the predominant culture of japanese ethnonationalism & close ties to white supremacy overseas was strong enough to brainwash a nation to commit mass genocide and unspeakable war crimes across an entire continent & ally with nazi germany and italian fascists to establish a japanese empire inspired by western imperialism across the entirety of east and southeast asia and break every single convention of war and ethical rule regarding treatment of prisoners and civilians, and then subsequently deny any of this ever happened and somehow simulataneously worship this period in their history and threaten the lives of anyone who tries to speak out about it or acknowledge this happened in Any country across the globe and still refuses to apologise or pay reparations for any of this despite the lasting trauma and suffering and destruction still felt across asia to this day it's actually not at all surprising that japanese media including anime and video games & jpop idols are so unbelievably racist and get away with it & are even celebrated for doing things like blackface and using racial slurs and how people regularly harass and assault brown and black people and even ethnic koreans and chinese who live there but that's something that white westerners don't want to hear about or talk about bc it ruins their fetishised conceptualization of japan in which the country can be reduced to an infantile and simultaneously pornographic commodity consisting solely of ramen noodles, anime girls, cute countryside towns, quirky hotels, cherry blossoms, and ghibli films and absolutely nothing else.
this isn't to say either that racism toward japanese people is okay because it's not acceptable under any circumstances, and white westerners are especially guilty of this in their discussions of ww2 and the japanese diaspora. i shouldn't have to say that the predominant culture of a country and its political history doesn't mean the people should be treated like shit especially by white people but u have to put a disclaimer on everything on this website





























































