tangzhuang:

soulsoaker:

A lot of people make jokes like “haha the Nazis love anime even though it’s Japanese they’re such dumbasses” and I’m just…do y'all not see how terrifying it actually is

being obsessed with “the Orient”, sexually exploiting East Asian women (they’re usually not that discerning about nationality), and treating Japanese culture as a fun playground/joke is exactly what white supremacists do you fucking morons it’s not funny just because it’s East Asians being preyed on by Nazis

also just personally as a sino individual: acting like japan was and has always been devolved from nazi ideals is incredibly dangerous. I do not want anyone to forget either how imperial japan was part of the axis powers, allied with the nazis in WW2 and how hitler bestowed them the title of “honorary ayran”. and i don’t want anyone to forget how japan still flashes it’s imperial flag, and yes in anime too. how there was/is anime flashing the nazi flag as a cute joke, hetalia which was an anime about humanizing imperial japan and nazi germany, attack on titan which has so many levels of imperialistic praise and nazism, youjou senki which is an anime that’s currently running and is about humanizing nazis

This is a country that still denies it’s war crimes, where politicians claim that they are all made up by china and south korea who demand reparations. Where they have a shrine to the war criminals who slaughtered and massacred my people and people of my sibling countries - even the current prime minister Abe went to pay respects to it. Post WW2 Japan still carries it’s imperialist history shamelessly: the company mistubishi which manufactured war planes using chinese and korean slave labour, for the sake of bombing their countries, now sells air conditioning units to said countries; the same era which they caused so much brutality to my people is now on snack boxes thanks to Meiji Dairies; the scientists who used chinese people for human experimentation escaped war crime trials to become the CEO of a major japanese pharmaceutical company.

i’m not gonna say that there is no truth in OP’s point because what they’re saying isn’t wrong either - but we need to remember that nazis being invested in japanese culture has always been more insidious than that, and some of those east asians were exploited more than others. especially when japan’s sinophobic, anti-southeast asian and anti-korean sentiments seem to be growing. especially when more and more japanese people are saying they dont think they need to apologize for the war anymore.