Over 50% of Japanese young people today remain unaware there was ever an attack on Pearl Harbor.
Probably 90% of Japanese are unfamiliar with Dec 6th’s significance.
I love 1,000 Japanese things, but the process of national reflection that occured in Germany mostly did not occur in Japan.
Japan has NO war guilt.
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Because of the Chinese threat, much of Asia is going to have to pull together mightily in ways unfamliar to the past 60 years.
The ties that bind Europe together—or did bind, I should perhaps say— do not really exist between Asian nations. Yeah, US honkies see slanted eyes allll over, and asian Americans at US Universities do talk a good multiculti game, but that does not actually go very far at all in Asia.
There is verrrry little sense of Pan-Asianism, there, while there is a general sense of Being European.
To remain unoccupied by China, a lot of Asian countries are going to have to get over their misgivings about WW2 in a huge hurry.
Why do you need a bunch of kids born in the 90s to have guilt when we are screaming over the left trying to make white feel guilty over slavery and Jim Crow?
That's probably lower than the percentage of young Americans who are unaware.
Better than having “war guilt,” post-WWII Japan has granted/loaned/invested billions in regional countries, helping them to rebuild and modernize.