dear jepang, kalian tidak tahu kan bahwa jepang pernah menjajah indonesia dan memperbudak rakyat kami selama 3,5 tahun? tentu, karena tidak tertulis dalam sejarah yg kalian pelajari. sadarilah buyut kalian itu penjahat yang suka menyiksa negara lain.
American history professor Alexis Dudden exposes how Japan’s official memory of its wartime atrocities – comfort women, the Nanjing Massacre, Unit 731 – has been systematically erased since the second term of Shinzo Abe, making it hard for Japanese citizens to understand why their neighbors see Japan’s atonement as deeply insufficient. #GlobalArena
Today 81 years ago, the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima hastened the end of WWII. While the devastation of nuclear weapons should never repeat itself, the particular context of the bombing must always be remembered.
The right-wing forces in Japan have been using the bombing to gain sympathy and escape accountability for Japan’s war crimes, which killed millions of lives in Japan’s neighboring countries.
Ironically, those right-wing forces are now clamoring for a nuclear Japan, which is most alarming.
Though the Tokyo Trials ended decades ago, the jury is still out on Japan’s attitude toward history.