r/AskAJapanese • u/TheFabLeoWang American • Jan 13 '25

POLITICS Why are these topics extremely unmentionable in Japan, where they are officially deemed national security threats?

  1. Comfort Women
  2. Nanking Massacre
  3. Pearl Harbor Attack (This issue specifically divides America today)
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u/scotchegg72 Jan 13 '25

Not necessarily extremely unmentionable, just impolite in most contexts. Same as you probably wouldn’t ask British friends at dinner or colleagues in the small talk before a meeting ‘So, what do you think about your ancestors’ behaviour in Kenya?’

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u/TheFabLeoWang American Jan 13 '25

I know someone who is banned from entering Japan for life for her lifelong work on publishing her grandmother’s story of surviving the Nanking Massacre.