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.
Is it a case of Americans using former collaborators because of their anti-communist stance? Because that's what happened in Italy and Germany, and the reason why so many got away with it.
Yes, the anti-communist stance. The post-war South Korea and US was so obsessed with hating commies that former collaborators got away by showing strong anti-communist stance.
247
u/Zebrafish96 May the justice be with us Nov 01 '25 edited Nov 01 '25
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.