This is going to blow your mind. I don’t know where you’re from, but if you’re an American, your culture’s kind of far too young for you to have developed this kind of magical sixth sense, but:

If a culture has deep-rooted issues with imagery, it is usually something pretty fucking serious to them and to understand it…

If you aren’t Korean, Chinese, or any other nationality of a country ravaged by Japan, shut the hell up. Your opinion doesn’t mean shit when you don’t have that history in your blood.

It is a part of the Japanese culture that most of the world doesn’t really want to remember though. I also feel it’s relevant that this isn’t an isolated case of uncomfortable nationalism on the part of the Japanese. I love Japanese culture, and I very much think that they’re generally a nice group of people, but this…

Oh sure, it’s super hard to be offended by the symbol of the government who used korean women as ‘comfort women’ during WW2. Not to mention the occupation of your country for about 30 years. It’s not like something like that leaves scars on a country or anything...

Yes, but much, much more offensive.

You’d find it easier if it was a Swastika instead of the Rising Sun.

Not really. While it may not be obvious to you, if you’re allergic to certain symbols, it immediately gets noticed.

Apparently you are quite ignorant, as well.

Japan did horrific things to Korea, WWII being hardly the worst. Constant invasions, massacres, and finally a forced annexation where they destroyed every single historical document, building and culture icon to make Korea “Japan”.

Imagine if Russia invaded Britain, and sold…

Yes because you are the only one who can judge what someone can get offended at. Thanks for informing us that you are a bigot.

And easy work policing people from another country’s feelings, apparently.

Can we please not call the Buddhist version a swastika, precisely because of the Western connotation of the word? Go with “manji.” A swastika is the rotated one.

Why can’t people just be offended? The symbol reminds them of bad times. I’m not going to criticize that.

Let’s downplay the outrage of a few pestering Koreans because Persona is a fan favorite and because Japanese culture is preferred by a bunch of white guys who like anime and video games. That’s BS. It reminds me of the WWII US Navy vet who was on ship at Pearl Harbor who would refuse to sit in a Japanese car. It…

The imagery and all sun imagery have existed long before any actions of the Japanese military in the 19th and 20th centuries.

No, it’s not exclusive to Japan during WWII, but Japan has, for many years, distanced itself from it and tried hard to dodge it. Germany on the other hand, have put their hands up and said ‘yeah, we fucked up’.

Some people have zero empathy, unless of course it affects them on a personal level.

And yet, nobody seems to be making the same push to reclaim the swastika even though it has its roots in history older than WWII. Why isn't anyone doing that? Because it's easy to remember why Nazis conquering Europe and performing horrible acts on people was a tragedy and how the swastika now represents some thing…

Torii gates, as well as Shinto shrines in general, were of course set up throughout Korea to spread the party line idea in the Empire that Korea was just a part of Japan that needed to be reclaimed, and that the Empire was giving the Koreans their heritage back. They coerced some Christian leaders into convincing…