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volKano said:
Japan bombed our country.
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Are you sure it wasn't the Germans?

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volKano said:
Just always wondered why Germany took the blame (as they should) but Japan and Italy aren’t looked at the same way.
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Japanese behavior in WWII is still a huge deal in China and Korea. They hold a lot of animosity towards Japan, and it has a big impact on their diplomatic relations. In Japan, the history they teach in schools really waters it down and glosses over the atrocities committed.
 
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Weezer said:
The Japanese were absolutely vicious fighters in WWII. They committed many horrible crimes that history tends to gloss over. But Germany tends to get more attention because of the sheer numbers.
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And pop culture played a huge role, the more time that passed. Messed up but it's the truth.

Italy became a major American vacation destination. We got over their role real quick.

Japan was seen as the heart of the "mystical" Samurai/martial arts fascination. Hell, there's kids today still thinking it's all rice paper walls and ninja swords.

Germany? Science and engineers. The one thing they could offer the US population, was something that we could just snatch up and take with us.
What the TV generation sees
1.Olive Garden
2. The last Samurai
3. The History Channel's rise of the Nazi war machine.
 
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highspeed said:
Japanese behavior in WWII is still a huge deal in China and Korea. They hold a lot of animosity towards Japan, and it has a big impact on their diplomatic relations. In Japan, the history they teach in schools really waters it down and glosses over the atrocities committed.
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We have a Japanese friend that lives in Tokyo. My daughter spent a month over there in 2018. She (the friend) thinks that we started war with them. They are not teaching the truth just like they do everywhere. It is a big problem.
 
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#1Volfaninmo said:
We have a Japanese friend that lives in Tokyo. My daughter spent a month over there in 2018. She (the friend) thinks that we started war with them. They are not teaching the truth just like they do everywhere. It is a big problem.
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They probably see FDR's embargo on Japan as "starting it" rather than their response of bombing Pearl Harbor.
 
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chargervol said:
And pop culture played a huge role, the more time that passed. Messed up but it's the truth.

Italy became a major American vacation destination. We got over their role real quick.

Japan was seen as the heart of the "mystical" Samurai/martial arts fascination. Hell, there's kids today still thinking it's all rice paper walls and ninja swords.

Germany? Science and engineers. The one thing they could offer the US population, was something that we could just snatch up and take with us.
What the TV generation sees
1.Olive Garden
2. The last Samurai
3. The History Channel's rise of the Nazi war machine.
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A lot of that is true, but it is also about numbers. Take for example the Nanking Massacre. It was horrendous, and the death toll was like 300,000 Chinese killed. Compare that to the 6 million Jews killed by the Germans. Also, in the case of Germany, there were clear people to blame. Hitler, Goebbels, Himmler, and all the other Hitler cronies. We let the Japanese Emperor off scot free because of what he meant to their culture. Truthfully, there are lots of reasons the Japanese aren't portrayed as bad as the Germans, but anyone who reads history can clearly see the Japanese were just as ruthless. The bushido /fight to the death code the Japanese believed in made them so.

There are many things in history that don't get "taught". If you want to know, you have to do your own reading and studying because it just doesn't get taught at a basic level.
 
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