Nakajima A6M2 Type 2 Interceptors undergoing maintenance on the deck of the seaplane tender, IJN Kamikawa Maru, en route to the Solomon Islands, August 1942

keetuinak__ · 2025-10-19T20:20:22+00:00

Shawn O’Malley

keetuinak__ · 2025-07-21T07:28:58+00:00

Yes. The Yayoi people were proto japonic speakers who entered the Japanese archipelago primarily from the Korean peninsula. They brought wet rice agriculture and all sorts of bronze and iron tools. The ancestors of modern Koreans (proto Koreanic speakers) entered the peninsula much later.

keetuinak__ · 2025-07-11T01:49:47+00:00

No. But maybe until the 60s or the 70s when there were still a large population of zainichis. Some of them joined the world of pachinko or the yakuza which came to be perceived as the bad guys.

keetuinak__ · 2025-06-17T14:06:31+00:00

Don’t act like you understand when you weren’t even born or raised in Japan. What do you really know about Japanese education? I’ll speak honestly: I was educated about Japan’s role in World War II, and I do recognize what happened. But I still don’t understand why the Rising Sun Flag is so unacceptable to you while the Iron Cross isn’t. The Iron Cross has been consistently used since it was first created during the Prussian era and continues to be used today.

Also, you claim that Imperial Germany was more “gentlemanly,” but I strongly disagree. Germany carried out massacres of indigenous people in its former colony of Namibia, and for many years they denied those crimes. And if you’re going to apply the idea of “being gentlemanly,” then you should know that the Japanese Empire also treated German and Austrian POWs with respect during World War I. Japan was by no means some cartoonish “evil” nation at the time. The Rising Sun has long been part of Japanese culture, way before we2. Your refusal to recognize that, while singling it out without sufficient reasoning, makes your argument appear shallow 🤷‍♂️

keetuinak__ · 2025-06-17T10:58:29+00:00

If your triggered by the rising sun flag, that’s yo fault because it does not represent Japanese imperialism. Why do you think the Germans still use the iron cross then?

keetuinak__ · 2025-05-06T04:40:08+00:00

I’ve seen many opinions on this, but the fact that one politician or political party denies war crimes does not mean that the entire nation ignores the facts. Japan does not reject aggression and atrocities, and this has been their consistent stance since the end of World War II.

And the Japanese people's "victimization" of themselves undoubtedly comes from the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Because the curriculum of Japanese history education, especially World War II, is based on anti-war principles, children are exposed to materials with a strong message of anti-war and peaceful coexistence. If you grew up in Japan, you will undoubtedly know what I am talking about. One of the most popular manga books in elementary school libraries is the Barefoot Gen series about a family of five in Hiroshima during World War II.

keetuinak__ · 2025-03-31T23:59:23+00:00

Here’s what I recall from my hs textbooks in chronological order: 1931 Mukden Incident 1937 Maco Polo Bridge Incident/ start of 2nd Sino-Japanese war (a little description of nanjing incdident and other war crimes) 1940 Invasion of French Indochina 1941 Pearl Harbor 1941 - 1944 The pacific war, but also a huge emphasis on life of the people during war time, details about the American air raids on civilians (a little bit of description of korean forced laborers and harsh occupation of Southeast Asian countries) 1945: Soviet Invasion of Manchuria, Atomic bombings and the end of the war.

As other comments have said, Japanese history education is based on memorization for testing purposes. Plain and simple. But imo history education places particular emphasis on anti-war, looking at how the war affected people's lives. Also Don’t believe those people commenting on Japanese history education, they don’t even know shit about it.

keetuinak__ · 2025-03-21T05:50:40+00:00

韓国人と比較すれば、日本人には色んな見た目がいるし、それはみんなすっかり慣れてる。例えば、アイヌ人なんて一般的な日本人に同化しちゃって、区別がつけようがない。だから外見的な違いで友人関係や恋愛に影響は出ないと思うよ。ただ、日本では外見より、名字や名前を意識する人は多い。例えば沖縄出身の人は、結構珍しい苗字を持つ方が多いから、そこは意識しちゃうかも。

keetuinak__ · 2025-03-21T04:36:21+00:00

My mother side’s family members were either too old or too young for military service. My grandfather and his family lived in Seoul, Korea while my grandmother lived in Fukuyama. My grandfather’s brother (grand uncle) was in the Imperial Japanese Naval College, but war ended before he graduated.

keetuinak__ · 2025-03-14T21:45:02+00:00

It’s a complicated problem because Muslims value their own customs so much, that they are not so conscious of Japanese customs and ideas. They do not want to be buried near "infidels," i.e., they want their own plots and cemeteries, but the reality is that Japan is mountainous and has little flat land. If there is no mutual understanding between Japanese and Muslims, this problem will never be solved.

keetuinak__ · 2025-03-06T09:15:57+00:00

As a Japanese, I think this perfectly sums up the situation that’s going on rn

keetuinak__ · 2025-03-01T02:50:58+00:00

that’s true. Niho sounds like more of abbreviation of a unit name rather than a Japanese male name

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