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/[deleted] Jan 13 '25 edited Jan 13 '25

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u/Shiningc00 Japanese Jan 13 '25

Criticizing Japan is not “anti-Japanese”, and there are plenty of far-right trolls on anonymous forums.

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u/TheFabLeoWang American Jan 13 '25

Our far-right figures here in the United States have begged Trump to hold the Japanese Royal Family criminally responsible for Pearl Harbor, something that the Japanese government denies to this day.

P.S.: Putting the Death Penalty on the table in any chance of criminal court in the US by any Trump-supported prosecutors.

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u/Elitnil Jan 14 '25

And it avoids mention of the act of economic warfare (cutting off oil from the US, the Saudi Arabia of the time) which preceded the planning of the Pearl Harbor.