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SoUnProfessional t1_ixl3aki wrote

Japan is an easy political target due to WW2. They don’t have a choice but to prepare.

All the neighboring countries pick on them - China with their incursion into Japanese waters North Korea fires missiles at them, kidnapped their citizens.

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n33bulz t1_ixle8hf wrote

I mean… you rape, murder and pillage your neighbours and then build a shrine celebrating the perpetrators… lots of people are going to hold a grudge

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SoUnProfessional t1_ixlfr1p wrote

And it also doubles as a political tool for autocrats to unite their population and do bad things to other countries and get away with it.

No doubt Japan did horrible things during WW2.

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