re: #16 electrotek

Yeah, they are disgustingly anti-Korean and anti-Chinese. Not to mention they downplay their wartime role and engage in a persecution narrative.

I recently watched an NHK video about newly discovered photos by a propaganda outfit to promote the Greater East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere. NHK is, compared to PBS or BBC, very conservative. But because it openly discussed the photos as propaganda and not actual representations of Chinese, Burmese, Indonesian, Filipino delight in their liberation from the white oppressors by Japanese hands, the comments were filled with “NHK are white appeasers”; and “white people will spit on you,” etc.

I understand that it’s the same “comment section” problem as around the world, but the worry is that it will gain traction. Abe is no sentimentalist. He just wants to use US power to his advantage for now (TPP, bases). But he is connected to less circumspect ultra-nationalists like Ishihara Shintaro. I love Japan, but I’ve never held any illusions about these folks.