@_dan_2002_ @937359368P Thank you for understanding😢 many other westerners I’ve talked to blamed us instead, it was hard trying to explain ourselves to them
@_dan_2002_ @937359368P -because it simply means you’re sitting on a log. You haven’t mentioned anything about bacteria or experiments, it would be normal not to notice anything wrong with it. Refer to the “cracker” example I used. If I didn’t connect it to white people, I would just be talking abt food
@_dan_2002_ @937359368P Also, like I said, what’s important is the context here. I wouldn’t care if horikoshi names a character maruta but didn’t connect it with human experiments or bacteria, because he may just mean “log”. Therefore I doubt your sentence is going to evoke any type of reaction-
@_dan_2002_ @937359368P Or are the Japanese officials openly hiding information from the public? I thought Japan was a first world country? How could this happen? Don’t they consider themselves more “open minded” than the Chinese? Yet their government hides vital information from them.
@_dan_2002_ @937359368P If horikoshi really didn’t know what it meant he could’ve still picked between “ganta” and “maruta”. Why didn’t he pick ganta? Or furthermore, why didn’t he do his research on what maruta means before using it? Isn’t researching materials a basic skill for a mangaka?
@_dan_2002_ @937359368P We can’t just look at that one word by itself, we have to see that it was connected with terms like “human experiments”, “doctor” and “a type of bacteria that just so happens was discovered by a Japanese scientist during WWII”.
@_dan_2002_ @937359368P And I can also say “cracker” is just referring to a type of food. But if I use it in context where I’m connect it to a white person then it is obviously used as a slur referring to that white person, instead of simply carrying the meaning of a food type.
@_dan_2002_ @937359368P I normally don’t look at what mangakas do, and only looked into this because this made it to no.1 trending in many Chinese platforms , so I don’t know if something like this has happened before. But I wouldn’t be surprised if it did, seeing how officials cover up the truth ofWWII
@_dan_2002_ @937359368P Jump must have a large and well equipped PR team. I can’t think of any reason why they’re not responding to this other than the possibility that they don’t care enough about it to act.
@_dan_2002_ @937359368P Yes, maybe he was. But companies cannot order authors to stay quiet and also do nothing themselves. Companies will tell people to stay quiet on the basis that they’ll fix things. Yet no one is fixing anything right now.
@_dan_2002_ @937359368P And the longer he drags it on the worse it’ll get. I don’t understand what they’re doing right now. What else can be more important than fixing the situation at hand? He’s losing many fans rapidly and is therefore losing income as well, does he not care?
@maccandchee Please don’t ask us to imagine being in his shoes, it’s invalidating what the victims of 731 went through. We are not going to sympathise with someone who makes light of our country’s past.