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Why can't the world just accept that since Japan makes better products than germany & the rest of Asia, Japan should not only be the dominant power in asia instead of china, but it would also be morally & pragmatically wrong for the japanese government to apologize or reparations for the war-crimes imperial Japan committed against the rest of Asia because said non japanese asians didn't create japanese products or pop-culture & thus don't deserve any apologies or reparations? After all, as long as Japan never challenges America's authority & they keep making more products & pop-culture for the US to enjoy, who cares how the rest of Asia is affected as long as Japan remains the sovereign power in asia?

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Holy crap what a horrible sentence. I don’t even know if i agree or not, i can’t get past how badly you expressed yourself, there.

Ignoring the badly-written wall of text for a moment… Yes, I am a manga enjoyer myself and have played some JRPGs. I also like Sushi, Mochi, Ramen, and a lot of other Japanese stuff.
That said, as much as I do like that and as much as I dislike for example the Chinese government and some of the stuff that it does, I’m still not ignoring that Japan did some pretty bad things in their imperial era and just because I happen like Japanese merch does not mean the rest of Asia can go rot for all I care. I mean, that’s a pretty asinine reason.

The people in Japan are not making stuff for you, them are making stuff foe themselves. don't be so egotistical as to think they are making their games, anime, and so on for Americans.

@Creativerealms #167186

which is pretty damn clear that much of Manga and Anime is pretty damn reflective of Japan’s cultural views and beliefs, take their continue use of the Christmas cake trope that has since fallen out in western cultures, that and so many other tropes makes it obvious that Japan is still a VERY conservative and right-wing nation to this day, not far-right sure but certainly not left of most westerners

I’ve seen anime figurines in Western packaging - mainly “My Hero Academia”, “Dragonball Zed” etc - in shops here in Britain: and not only in specialist comic stores such as Forbidden Planet (a branch opened here in Hull late last year). I’ve heard that Bandai Namco will be doing similarly for sales in Europe, especially for their Gunpla kits (perhaps based on how the Hull-based Humbrol-owned Airfix produced a version of their best selling BAC TSR-2 kit with packaging promoting the anime series featuring such in “Stratos 4″: itself a valuable collectors item). There are Funko Pop versions of anime characters one can find in many places. But they all have one thing in common:

You’ll find on them the words ‘Made in China’.

You’ll also see in the credits of certain anime series English script of Korean names: even Vietnamese ones, as anime studios in Japan farm out much of the work to other countries

A certain electronics company in South Korea are a Chaebol so huge they have a part of Seoul known as Samsung City: yet, their HQ in Britain isn’t in London but is in Blackbushe Indusrial Park: it’s why you’ll see on the phones sold here saying ‘Samsung Yateley’, which is a village in Surrey.

Those Western-packaged anime figures I’ve seen with ‘Made in China’ on them, especially in the Forbidden Planet in my locale: no doubt in their main store in London. Anime in which the bulk of the work is done in Vietnam. NVidia of America are in Vietnam too. Dell of Texas’s most advanced computer assembly plant is in Poland. id Software of Texas had a comic adaptation of their game “Quake Champions” produced by Titan Books: the publishing arm of Forbidden Planet in Britain.

If you see black cars of a certain make in Japan, they’ll be chauffeur-driven and carrying one of two certain types of people - as they’re the only ones favoured by such - thus either politicians or senior members of the Yakuza. Said cars? Mercedes-Benzs.

Why can’t you just accept that since many countries make better products than certain others, who cares about your ‘Opinion’, OP…?!

said non japanese asians didn't create japanese products or pop-culture & thus don't deserve any apologies or reparations

So the sole criterium to rank societies is whether they produce things which are of specific interest to you? Talk about narcissism…

Putting aside that said pop-culture creators in Japan can be rather critical of their nation/culture, behavior in early Showa included. Exhibit A: The Patriots AIs in Metal Gear Solid 2 were at least in part inspired by Kojima Hideo’s frustration with the uyoku constantly compelling history textbooks to ignore or just gloss over Japan’s 1930s and 1940s atrocities in Korea, China, etc.

So at least there are native Japanese who want their nation to own up to its misdeeds and apologize. The trick is them making sure they’re taken seriously.

@Skynight #167221
Not to mention Japanese director Isao Takahata, who directed Grave of the Fireflies.

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