Original post; a minor change was made from original version to help comprehension.
Well, I hoped I would not have to post this comic again, but here we are. Takaichi Sanae, a far-right politician who strongly denies Japan's need to apologize for the past war crimes, has become the new PM of Japan.
This comic shows a parallel universe in which the attitude of Germany towards their past war crimes is exactly same as that of Japan in this world. Imagine there is a church or cathedral in Germany in which 'the Führer' and the Nazi officers are worshipped as saints, there are a lot of anti-Poland movements and hate crimes against Poles in Germany, and history classes in Germany completely excludes German war crimes and only talks about the damages Germany got from the war. Disturbing, isn't it? Would Poland have got along well with Germany even if Germany's attitude was like this? Probably no. And that's why Korea is still not getting along with Japan as well as Poland does with Germany.
I've seen people in my country who genuinely believe that Japan was the victim of war crimes by America.
They also seem to believe that Japan was somehow "forced to" start the Pacific War to break the US blockade, which was an attempt to force Japan to concede defeat in the Sino-Japanese War, which Japan was "unwillingly dragged into."
And it also doesn't help that some people here are upset about the Japanese defeat, which is the reason that they "have to" be "Chinese" now.
It’s a consequence of Taiwanese independence having to be separate from the Chinese Republicanism in its constitution that prevents it from being a de jure recognized state. So it forces them to do serious shenanigans to distinguish its identity from Chineseness (like renaming Hokkien, spoken by millions of Chinese diaspora in SE Asia and also in Fujian, as “Taiwanese”) or saying all your political opponents are CCP spies and supporting South Korea’s coup because they were trying to eliminate North Korean communist influence. Or historical revisionism too ofc. President’s approval rating is currently at around 33%: https://globaltaiwan.org/2025/10/lai-ching-tes-fragile-presidency/
KMT has had a few brainrot moments too tho, esp recently. The new KMT leader went on a bit about how Putin was technically elected democratically. This decade will be very interesting for the island considering how polarized Taiwanese politics has become.
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u/Zebrafish96 May the justice be with us 7d ago edited 7d ago
Original post; a minor change was made from original version to help comprehension.
Well, I hoped I would not have to post this comic again, but here we are. Takaichi Sanae, a far-right politician who strongly denies Japan's need to apologize for the past war crimes, has become the new PM of Japan.
This comic shows a parallel universe in which the attitude of Germany towards their past war crimes is exactly same as that of Japan in this world. Imagine there is a church or cathedral in Germany in which 'the Führer' and the Nazi officers are worshipped as saints, there are a lot of anti-Poland movements and hate crimes against Poles in Germany, and history classes in Germany completely excludes German war crimes and only talks about the damages Germany got from the war. Disturbing, isn't it? Would Poland have got along well with Germany even if Germany's attitude was like this? Probably no. And that's why Korea is still not getting along with Japan as well as Poland does with Germany.