Kyougaku Koukou no Genjitsu - Vol. 5 Ch. 65

[MangaDex]

 

[marcopolonian]

Is that really the whole chapter?

 

[Tcof]

Lol. Wtf ?

 

[Markgraf]

You know, going off the rails is fine for this series.

 

[Escheron]

@givemersspls half of Japan still denies they did anything wrong and ignore all their war crimes. And even the half that doesn't outright deny it doesn't really make a habit of talking about it so the younger generation probably doesn't really learn about it

 

[Natureboy]

@givemersspls Oddly enough Fascism is the broader term that encompasses Japanese militarism, rule by corporate elites, expansionism and extreme nationalism. Nazism is more specific to what happened in Germany and Austria, with their focus on Aryan racial superiority and rule by quasi-democratic despotism.

 

[InfiniteVerisimilitude]

@givemersspls you could ask similar questions as to why so many people in the US have a hard-on for the 50s which was a time full of sexism, racism, bigotry etc.

 

[LemonLies]

The original comment seems to have been deleted or something so I'm not precisely sure what the original question was, but I wanted to add that there's a very significant political movement in Japan favoring historical revisionism to paint history in a light more favorable to the Japanese state. In fact, the current prime minister Shinzou Abe is closely tied to the Nippon Kaigi, an ultraconservative organization that advocates various nationalist and untruthful revisions of history, the strengthening of the monarchy, and the resurgence of a powerful military, among other things. His grandfather Kishi Nobusuke was a truly loathsome human who oversaw numerous atrocities in the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo and was deeply, horrifically racist against the Chinese and Korean peoples. After the war he was imprisoned on suspicion of class-A war crimes, but was released by the US occupation forces instead of being persecuted with the others because it was believed he would help lead Japan in a pro-US direction. Indeed he did in fact become prime minister, and spent much of his life campaigning to clear the names of his fellow war criminals who were convicted. Back to Shinzou Abe, in his book (Utsukushii Kuni e) he praises his grandfather, and indeed his policies often seem to carry on his legacy.
Apologies for the long, questionably relevant ramble. I didn't intend for this to go on very long, but as you can probably tell I feel quite strongly regarding these issues. That's right: I'm so much of a weeb that I have strong political opinions regarding a country I've barely even visited.

 

[henman]

@LemonLies why tf do I open a comment for romcom SoL manga and see politics in comments? Are all appropriate places closed for it? /pol/ or wherever? Original comment was deleted (and that has a reason too) but you come and throw in some more politics after 7 months? Do you really have so much free time?

 

[LemonLies]

@henman I wasn't commenting just for the sake of venting something political. I thought I had something to say that people reading the prior conversation might have been interested in. You're right that 7 months is a bit long, which is why I didn't ping anyone. My comment was meant for people passing through in the future to read if they were interested. I'm sorry you weren't, but you know it's perfectly fine not to read every comment, especially if they're on the long side long like mine was and don't interest you. Also I apologized in the comment itself for going off on a bit of a tangent, so I'm not sure why you felt strongly enough about it to comment yourself. Writing it in the first place didn't require an exceptional degree of free time, by the way, it was hardly an academic essay. A stream of consciousness rant about a topic you already know something about tends to go quite quickly.

 

[henman]

@LemonLies oh boi, you do have too much free time. Way too much.

 

[LemonLies]

@henman Not that it has anything to do with anything, but I spent most of my day working. And if you didn't want a reply why did you tag me in the first place? You confuse me.