Japan and Nazism

[NedimNapoleon]

Why are Japanese people obsessed by Nazism? I found tons of other pictures but why they're not "Aryan"

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[Patroklos]

This is a people who sell used panties out of public vending machines. This fad is the least of their problems.

 

[NedimNapoleon]

but why Nazism, I in somehow understand Manga, Hentai and Anime but Nazism

 

[Dachs]

We should've nuked the rest of their cities.


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[wolfigor]

that's just a form of cosplay... don't read too much into it.

 

[Newbunkle]

Fashion? I know a girl in the US who finds Nazi uniforms sexy.

Or maybe because they were allies in WW2 - there are lot of Japanese kids who like their empire as well.

 

[NedimNapoleon]

but once again why do they find cosplay so interesting, they always cosplay

 

[Karalysia]

Because they intend to re-create the Empire of Japan of course.

 

[CELTICEMPIRE]

Hitler didnt have a huge problem with Asians, he thought they were above Africans and Jews

 

[Bill3000]

oh, easy, because

 

[Haseri]

Because the Nazis (or their symbolism and what it meant at the very least) didn't have as big an impact in Japan as it did in Europe or America?

To them, this could be just another fashion thing. It's not like there is any hate behind it. Horrific to us, but it's not as bad as people using it as a symbol for something evil.

 

[Tee Kay]

It's not only the Japanese. Non-Western people tends to have a better opinion of Hitler than Westerners do. It's partly lack of exposure/familiarity with Hitler and Nazism, partly ignorance/misinformation, and partly because there are a few who genuinely admire Hitler who they see as a strong leader and as an enemy of the colonial powers which dominated Asia at the time. Also, what Haseri said.

The Western counterpart would be the obsession some Americans seem to have with Imperial Japan, which to the Chinese or Koreans is the worst thing that ever happened to them.

 

[Bill3000]

Er, but no one in the west has an obsession with Imperial Japan

 

[Tee Kay]

Er, but no one in the west has an obsession with Imperial Japan

I think obsession may be the wrong word to use. But the characterization of Imperial Japan is different among Westerners. It's samurai honor, bushido, imperial glory, banzai charges, Kamikazes. In China and Korea they remember the raped women, the mutilated PoWs, the Kempeitai, the forced labor, the WMDs. Of course Japanese atrocities against Western PoWs (eg Kanchanaburi, Bataan) get more airtime than atrocities against Asians, but it still results in a view of Imperial Japan that is, IMHO, more positive than the view shared by some Asians whose countries had been under Japanese occupation. So you have, for instance, the Rising Sun flag being

 

[Cutlass]

Japan: Source of 72% of the world's weirdness since 1952

 

[CELTICEMPIRE]

Er, but no one in the west has an obsession with Imperial Japan

I know lots of people obsessed with Japan in general.

 

[Karalysia]

Japan: Source of 72% of the world's weirdness since 1952

Since 1932. Japan basically adopted the worst aspects of Western imperialism combined with notions of Social Darwinism and racial eugenics with aspects of a fictional ideology (Bushido), into one big mass of aggression and delusions of grandeur. Which then resulted in things like the Rape of Nanking.

 

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