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Originally Posted by Thematic-Device
Except I cited a movie circa 1960 which quite plainly made fun of the US's relations with those in the former Axis Powers. The reason you don't see the US harping over it is because the US knows it, the US has known it for a long time and other then in documentaries or period movies (e.g. The Good Shepard) its not something which comes up frequently since the Cold War is over.
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Movies can make implications, but can not be hard evidence. CIA declassified materials are pure evidence.
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No, you are using it to justify the extreme level of xenophobia demonstrated by China and to extend a demonization of Japan to a demonization of the US
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China is not even half as xenophobia as America in many ways, not to mention pure race Japan. China is justified to demonize Japan and America as much as Japan and America demonize China.
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And yet, we did it. Hell look at Germany, Austria and France before WWII they were all militaristic states. Now they are pacifists. Each country took its own lessons from WWII, the idea that countries cannot change, and that World War II had no effect on the world demonstrates your own willful ignorance and susceptibility to propaganda.
How many people, pray tell, have you spoken to, who are Japanese
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I don't know enough of Europeans, so I avoid commenting on Germany, Austria or France. I have visited Tokyo for many times, have seen those xenophobia right wing propaganda buses with high voice microphones driving through Tokyo streets all day long. Besides, I have read some Japanese novels, watched Japanese TV shows, movies and cartoons from very young. Well, none of the Japanese that I have spoken to show any fascism, but they are usually extremely polite on surface. My comment on Japan does not come from those public statements or "Pacifist Constitution" that is subject to be changed any time, but come from the profoundly cultured Japanese literature and art elements.