My father was a Korean War vet & he told a story about a slightly older co-worker who had survived the Bataan Death March and if he went out to lunch with someone and they owned a Japanese car, he refused to ride in it.
[My father was a Korean War vet & he told a story about a slightly older co-worker who had survived the Bataan Death March and if he went out to lunch with someone and they owned a Japanese car, he refused to ride in it.]
Given the experience of that acquaintance, that’s completely understandable. A good number of Holocaust survivors swore off German cars. But for people not directly involved, you gotta wonder about their misgivings about Japan and Japanese products. For instance, China’s maltreatment of GI POWs in Korea was such that, as with Japan’s, 40% of them died. The Chinese starved them to death and denied them medical treatment. I can’t say I’ve heard of any Korea vet who’s boycotting Chinese products because of China’s wartime conduct.