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[–] WaterBowlSlime@lemmygrad.ml 49 points 2 years ago

Wait so that's a monument for the kids who chose to die for Nazi Japan? On purpose?

That's a public urinal as far as I'm concerned.

[–] SexUnderSocialism@hexbear.net 49 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Color me surprised that every country the US funds and arms is hard at work rehabilitating and reviving WW2 fascism. Anti-communism really is a special kind of brain rot.

[–] Frank@hexbear.net 49 points 2 years ago

When your attempts to start WWIII aren't working so you decide to crank it up a notching.

[–] BelieveRevolt@hexbear.net 48 points 2 years ago (2 children)

So the ”Republic of China” erected a monument to kids who volunteered to do war crimes against Chinese people?

[–] Fishroot@hexbear.net 11 points 2 years ago

There is a clean cut in the generations before and after the democratization of Taiwan

[–] Zuzak@hexbear.net 40 points 2 years ago (4 children)

A long time ago, as a lib and for a film class, I watched The Emperor's Naked Army Marches On. It's a documentary that follows Okuzaki Kenzō, as he searches for answers about Japanese war crimes. Okuzaki had been a solider in WWII, but he had exposed himself to the enemy with the intent of getting himself killed, but was captured instead and spent most of the war as a prisoner in Australia.

He held the Emperor chiefly responsible and got arrested on multiple occasions, once for firing pinballs at the emperor, and another time for making pornographic cartoons of him and throwing them off rooftops. He was also known for driving around in car covered in slogans with a loudspeaker blaring them as well.

Okuzaki reasoned that "killing Hirohito per se would not solve the problem", though "Hirohito deserves capital punishment for his crime of driving hundreds of thousands of Japanese men to their death in war" and that he would not mind killing the Emperor "if that would bring truly eternal peace, freedom, and happiness to us." (Wikipedia)

In the film, Okuzaki confronts other veterans in search of the truth, just showing up at their house and pressing them very directly, even resorting to physical force, stating, "Violence is my forte." He very brazenly violates both the law and Japanese cultural norms, which would normally allow them to talk around the matter and leave it buried. By doing so, he's able to extract several confessions regarding acts of cannibalism by soldiers stationed in New Guinea, though the testimonies are somewhat unreliable and conflicting about certain details.

But perhaps the most moving thing about the film is not the confessions themselves, but understanding Okuzaki's motivation. He understood the horrors of the war, that he had seen first-hand. But as nobody wanted to talk about them or confront the reality, they were being forgotten. The only people who remembered were dying off, and new generations were being born with no memory of what had happened, sheltered from the ugliness, and ignorant of the emperor's guilt. He saw the signs of the return of nationalism, and he resolved to do everything in his power, no matter who he offended, no matter what consequences he faced, to force people to confront their country's past.

This monument is disgusting. Defacing it is praxis.

[–] AcidSmiley@hexbear.net 25 points 2 years ago

firing pinballs at the emperor

A man who was ahead of his time the-doohickey

[–] Dolores@hexbear.net 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The Emperor's Naked Army Marches On

any idea where to watch this? usual 🏴‍☠️ suspects don't carry it

[–] Zuzak@hexbear.net 13 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

The full movie is free on Youtube

Edit: Dang but no subtitles. There's a subbed version here, on archive.org.

[–] Dolores@hexbear.net 10 points 2 years ago

sick sick sick i never remember to check youtube even though they have lots of obscure titles lol thank you! stalin-approval

[–] Dolores@hexbear.net 11 points 2 years ago

once for firing pinballs at the emperor, and another time for making pornographic cartoons of him and throwing them off rooftops. He was also known for driving around in car covered in slogans with a loudspeaker blaring them as well

based

[–] raspberry_confetti@lemmy.ml 38 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Up next, a new confederate monument is being erected at the Capitol.

[–] ClimateChangeAnxiety@hexbear.net 25 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Do we not already have some? Even if not, just a couple hours away is Washington and Lee University, probably the biggest confederate memorial there is. It’s where we let Robert E Lee live the rest of his life as a rich man who got to be president of a prestigious and very old university rather than having him drawn and quartered.

[–] raspberry_confetti@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

We can still draw and quarter all of his extant offspring, seize their assets, demolish the school, and turn the site into a public urinal.

[–] Alaskaball@hexbear.net 21 points 2 years ago

Oh look, thousands of corpses that should be used as artillery shells and shot into the ocean.

Also bonus, the tens of maybe hundred or two of living corpses who should be stuffed into the tubes with them and launched out to feed the fishes

[–] Fishroot@hexbear.net 19 points 2 years ago (2 children)

DPP's founder Lee Teng Hui, also the forefather of democracy in Taiwan has a brother who served in the imperial army. This island is really a leftover trash from 2 loser nations

[–] emizeko@hexbear.net 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Tsai Chieh-sheng (蔡潔生), the father of Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) candidate Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文), is being called a “traitor” and a “subject of the Japanese empire” as he is being condemned for having helped the Japanese air force repair their aircraft and helping the Japanese attack the Chinese.

[–] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I can't believe this man is being "accurately labelled" for his "well-documented actions"

[–] emizeko@hexbear.net 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

the column's actual apologia is about that bad

they were simply fulfilling the duties that a citizen owes to its nation.

https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/editorials/archives/2015/06/23/2003621347

[–] AssortedBiscuits@hexbear.net 8 points 2 years ago

At least the fascist collaborator traitor brother got got by the Americans in the Battle of Manila.

[–] refolde@hexbear.net 14 points 2 years ago

Is it the DPP again

It's the fucking DPP again isn't it

Hoooooooly shit moooods where's the DPP-cool emote

[–] a_talking_is2@hexbear.net 13 points 2 years ago

You know shit's fucked when even Chen Weihua don't know what to say.

[–] CyborgMarx@hexbear.net 13 points 2 years ago

I've been saying liberals are just one bad day away from fully rehabilitating Imperial Japan

[–] WhyEssEff@hexbear.net 10 points 2 years ago
[–] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 7 points 2 years ago

No you see, these young patriots had to help the poor Imperial Japanese army ; the authoritarian SeeSeePee was taking away their freedom to genocide mainland China

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