I'm baaaaack, with frens this time

This shit is dark AF lmao
- Yeah a lot of people might not be aware just how heinous Japans actions were in The Second Sino-Japanese War (the Chinese War of Resistance) in the lead-up to Asias involvement in WWII.
  The Rape of Ninjing and Unit 731 are just two of the atrocities we know of.
  Implying that Japan is now "back for more" and with frens this time is indeed pretty dark.
  
  I think that's probably true - Japan has such a sanitized reputation now (which, frankly, isn't entirely deserved), and most people probably don't ever take a history class after high school, so a lot of people probably genuinely don't know how bad it was. I did a little over 3 years of an undergrad history major and never heard a word about it. The only reason I know anything about it is because my AP US History teacher in high school told a few of us about it after a class on WWII. I had nightmares about some of the pictures for a few nights. I see why they don't generally teach it to kids.
  
  Comfort Women are up there too. Japan was twisted af
  
  Yeah a lot of people might not be aware just how heinous Japans actions were in The Second Sino-Japanese War
  Or at a thousand other points in their history with China.
  
  I only recently learned about Unit 731 and I wish I hadn't. It's that fucking bad. Shit keeps me up at night if I allow myself to think about it.
  
  A group of humans so bad the nazis saved people from them
  
  Yeah a lot of people might not be aware just how heinous Japans actions were in The Second Sino-Japanese War
  Unless if you're from Asia.
  
  Let's not forget the entire colonization of Korea.
- The Imperial flag too 👀
  
  It's actually their Navy flag that's still in use
- Lol imagine being so edgy that NCD says "pump the brakes bruh."
  Apparently this is more controversial than mommy milkers on an airplane.
  
  It is safe to assume the militarysexual status already comes with the territory.

Japan isn’t actually demilitarized, they have gundams under the mountains.
Everyone knows this.
- Tbf I have a navy that is bigger than a lot of countries
- I'm more worried about the potential of seeing Evangelion units.
  
  Just cut the cable and kite for 5 minutes. Or psychologically traumatize the pilots. That's probably easiest honestly.
  
  Yea, we'd have bigger problems than China at that point lol

with frens
I think this needs an asterisk, pretty sure South Korea and the Philippines would be happy if Japan and China somehow simultaneously destroyed each other.
Edit: astrix to asterisk. Sorry, English isn't my first language. I mean it's been my primary for nearly 30 years, but it's still a removed sometimes.
- The average SK citizen doesn't really hate the Japanese, they just want their damn artifacts back. After all, it's difficult to say the largest instantaneous loss of life in human history wasn't punishment enough.
  
  The average SK citizen doesn't really hate the Japanese, they just want their damn artifacts back.
  I think you'd be surprised, we've been hating the Japanese since the 1600s.
  After all, it's difficult to say the largest instantaneous loss of life in human history wasn't punishment enough.
  Up to 30k Koreans being used as slave labour were killed in the atomic blast.... We don't typically see that as squaring everything away, especially considering the modern Japanese government is made up of the children of war criminals who continue denying their parents many crimes against humanity.
- Asterix, like my boss used to say :)
- Philippines would not want to see Japan hurt. We are taught about the ugly history for most of our childhood but the general public is pro-Japan in the present. Pop culture aside, they funded projects and research without much debt traps and is curently much less evil than what China is doing these past decades.
  
  That's understandable, i guess you guys wouldn't have the historic animosity. Plus, they probably aren't still attempting to do historic revisionism on your entire country's existence.

It’s a nice meme but their population is turning geriatric, and they’re literally unable to pass any policies to make the birth rate go up.
- population is turning geriatric
  So… the Japanese will not only fight China, but that's going to be the very same Japanese that invaded China last time?
  
  妈的
- So is China's...
- I feel like your intentionally misrepresenting Japan
  Every country has racist people and Japan's younger population are more open
  
  You get a timeout.

Oh I don't like this

Isn't fren one of those words used by 4chan as a dogwhistle? Feels a bit icky when talking about WW2 Japan
- urban dictionary says it stands Far-Right-Ethno-Nationalist turns out you're probably right. But I like saying frens 😅
  
  Is that like Kids In Satan's Service? Or is it a real thing?
- We can take it back.
- I learned something today, and I'm disappointed
- It meant friend long before that
  If you dilute their ability to use it as a dog whistle then it loses the ability to
  The okay symbol worked because people typically didn’t use it that often

Isn't Japan like super demilitarized?
- Kinda. They do have fun stuff like a cruiser that has a flat deck and carries aircraft, not an aircraft carrier (!!!), a cruiser. And they have been rearming the last two years as it becomes clear their neighbors might need a stick, or at least the threat of one.
- In 2015, Japan amended its constitution to allow it to come to the defense of its allies.
  A bit concerning, perhaps, but at least they're on our side this time.
  
  The real question is who changed, them or us?
- Yes.
  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan_Maritime_Self-Defense_Force
  This is all actually just props used in live-action anime.
  
  I don't see any gundams. I'm calling fake.
- They have a navy but it operates as an arm of the US Military, more or less. There are 23 US Military Bases in Japan with 53,973 troops or about a third of the USA's deployed troops worldwide.

BY GOD, IT'S INDIA FROM THE WEST!

Hey wait a minute, that isn't PLA07 Desert pattern. This shit post is a phony.

Idk if the wording of "peace in the Taiwan straight" accurately describes an "intervention in armed conflict with full military force" but I'm all for it if it means even the mere notion helps prevent further escalation in the region.

Helloooo

They are ready to loose again

- What is this tankie happy hour? All of you fucks came into the thread at the exact same time.
  
  2nd shift starting in Novosibirsk
  
  Pretty typical for lemmy.ml
  
  Just that the Chinese never miss an opportunity to hate the Japanese. Especially when the meme brings up the PLA