I cannot agree to that, sorry. Religion caused lots of tragedies and massacres, but it’s no reason for genocide in my opinion.

They didn’t say anything as far as I know. And I assume they didn’t dress like that knowingly. That’s a problem.

You’re right, I didn’t think much of pre-WW2 Japan, except all the cool stuff in mangas. I knew very little about it except the discussion here led me to check about lots of things, Nanking massacre for example. And yeah they weren’t a very peaceful country to say the least.

I see it more as a “let’s not even start discussing this, we all know how bad we were” than a “let’s pretend it didn’t happen”. But yeah, censor in Germany is huge, and WW2 is a very complicated matter there.

Teaching History is the only way to prevent things from happening again. It’s sad Japan doesn’t try to educate students more about that. It’s not about being ashamed forever, it’s just knowing that some things were done and we shall not do it again.

Because while conquest and domination are evil things, they make sense. Every country tried to get bigger at some point. Not saying it’s a good thing.

That last part made me laugh, well done :-D

Nope. But hey, feel free to think like that.

It’s both I think. It’s a silly mistake, indeed, and they probably are just ignorant people.

Cowboys are not the symbol of the indian genocide to my knowledge. Nazis are only that. They didn’t exist long before, and didn’t exist after. They’re only the ones who wanted to conquer the world, or at the very least Europe, and genocide jews, amongst other minorities.

We all have terrible things in our history. Something I like in France, it’s that it’s illegal to contest this part of history, it’s called négationnisme:

That’s a very interesting read, albeit a worrisome one. Thank you.

Touché.

I didn’t do research about school books, but it’s what I’ve been told by German friends, and I know that Germans have respect towards WW2.

Far more bad stuff going that the holocaust and millions of death ? Well, ok.

While I agree about the victor deciding History, the act of invading multiple neighboring countries qualifies you as the bad guy automatically in my book !

Wow, that’s amazing, but in a bad way. Thanks for sharing.

I’m sorry if I didn’t understood your point but I have to ask. Did you say “not involved” refering to Japan ?

You’re right, I shouldn’t have generalised. But it’s a feeling I have from reading a lot of mangas too, where they sometime use these nazi stereotypes while not being aware that the japanese didn’t fight them, but were their allies.

I agree fully. I’m french, and before being those dirty cowards you all love and hate, we also did terrible things. Some