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US ambassador to Japan to skip A-bomb memorial service in Nagasaki because Israel was not invited (www.clickondetroit.com)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Very strange things are going on in Japan, worth keeping an eye on.

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Huh....didn't know that that memorial was a thing or that we were invited; why on earth would you invite the criminals who conducted it?

[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 month ago

And imagine the hubris of said war criminals not attending, because their other war criminal buddies were not invited.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

From what I have gathered Japan has been very subservient to the US since WW2 end. They had become an American vassal state and America had significant control over them. Even stuff like anime and manga were censored when they contained explicit anti-war themes.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago

yeah, japans weird censorship is pretty directly because of 1950s american bullshit

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago

it's called being military occupied