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⌈ Secret Post #695 ⌋

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Fuck, I'm so enraged that I'm not even going to bother to change out of my Hetalia RP account. Yes, I RP as Japan.

In real life? I am a Singaporean whose family was forced into hiding during the Second World War. My father tells me stories about what happened shortly before he was born, and the persecution they faced. We don't need to get into the details, but rest assured I used to be very anti-Japanese as a child. I do bear many grudges against their actions during the war, and I am not without anger at their crimes. You cannot call me unsympathetic towards my own country, but I have Japanese friends. I have an appreciation for their culture. To me, You are acting like my five-year old bigoted self with a self-justified streak. What is wrong with you?

You are looking at it in the way that some Japanese people look at their own war crimes: "it could not be helped", "it was a cultural difference", "It didn't happen". You are clearly angry that the Japanese government has not acknowledged the inhumanity of their crimes. I am also angry, to an extent, but I would not consider the Atom bombs "Justified". How can you justify the killing of tens of thousands of uninvolved civilians as humane, and deserved just because a proposed, equally destructive operation was suggested? YOU are the one who is denying the horror of the war on the part of the Allies. Yes the Japanese needed to be stopped, and perhaps there was no other way to go about doing it except going on the offensive, but what they did was cruel and it should not stop you from feeling sympathy for human life.

Just because one side has committed atrocities does not mean the other side is immune. Depending on who wins the war, and who has the most influence, things will be glossed over in history. Many of Japan and Germany's secrets have been revealed because they lost. I do not suggest that they are RIGHT, or that these things should have been kept under wraps, because I deserve to know what happened to my family, but what has been concealed because America, UK, France, and Russia won? What don't we know about because you're all too wrapped up in your ideas of justification? The Japanese are people too, some of my best friends are Japanese. They lost their loved ones and were hurt as much as we were. Some of them still lose loved ones living in those areas to cancer. Can we deny them that sympathy just because of their government and some of their military so many years ago were irresponsible and inhumane?

To me, your assertion that "The Atom Bombs were a mercy" is the same as Japan glossing over its atrocities. I'd like to know, would the death toll really have been worse? The aftereffects of Hiroshima and Nagasaki are still felt even today. The radiation is still killing people through abnormally high instances of cancer, directly an effect of the atom bombs. Scientifically proven. If the early deaths, miscarriages and abnormalities of uninvolved civilians over sixty years through cancer do not total more than the deaths of voluntary soldiers after that hypothetical mission, I would be surprised.

I don't know where you get your ideas from, but it looks like the American textbooks have glossed things over, just as the Japanese ones have.

This has nothing to do with the fact you find hetalia distasteful. I don't care if you do. It is up to you what you read/watch. As _calex_ said, it's entertainment and if you find it crass, so be it. It's just that your, yes, callous attitude towards the Japanese people... towards the suffering of other human beings... I can't accept it.

Feel free to argue or not. It's 6am and I only have two hours to sleep now, so I won't be getting back to you any time soon.

Fucking THIS. I didn't think I could love you any more, Japan-mun, but I do. Fucking this.

And besides, doesn't the main story of Hetalia actually feature very little of the war itself, and more of the period BEFORE the war? That's what I gathered, anyway.

Gah, Korea-mun, I love you too. :'D ~~*offers breasts*~~

And yeah, the main story of Hetalia is all just... anecdotal tidbits of silliness, war-related, UFO-related, or otherwise. I suppose the title is "Axis Powers", but honestly, WW2 is not the main focus of the webcomic. There's just as much on the past of Italy and the other nations as their is on the Axis Powers, I think.

Sometimes Fanfic/Fanart does delve into the darker aspects of the themes in Hetalia, but most of the ones I've read are tasteful and incredibly well researched, with the amount of tact and correctness that I really approve of.

Umph...some people just don't understand WHAT REALLY APH means...I'm disgusted of this topic,really Hetalia LJ is a happy island and I hope it will remain like this forever,with fans from around the world willing to understand each other and with that bit of sanity that allow us not to take silly funny webcomics as serious issues...!
Of course war is bad,ON ALL SIDES,but it can't be blamed on populations and APH explain it well about the different views between nation-tans and their bosses(!)

I mostly agree. Though to be fair, I think that you can't actually say the atrocities committed were the same since you forget to weigh in the fact that Japan was the AGGRESSOR. No, innocent civilians did not deserve to die. On the other hand, are you really saying that America trying to end a war they were forced into (Japan seems to forget that Pearl Harbor happened a lot) with a weapon whose full effects they probably didn't realize at the time can be blamed on a equal basis with Japan invading Asia trying to colonize it under the pretext that the rest of Asia was racially inferior and DESERVED to be experimented on, massacred, raped, etc? I feel intention is stronger in a "justice" debate than actual numbers.

No, you are completely right. Japan is definitely not blameless, and I'm not equaling the atrocities committed by either side. I do NOT believe that the Japanese were right in any way to start the war or to do anything they did due to their insane superiority complex, nor do I think that America or any of the Allied powers have done anything quite on the scale of the Japanese or the Germans. (Even now I feel uncomfortable because there is still a lot of racism there, but what can you do?) America was forced into the war, as much as any of the other countries were when they were attacked, and that was not right either. Pearl Harbor was also a tragedy.

However, BOTH SIDES have to take what they have done into account. While much of the "blame" may fall on the Axis Powers, the Allies are not entirely blameless either. What I take issue most with is that this person is clearly unsympathetic to the loss of human life that occurred during Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and going so far to say that they deserved it, or that "it was better" than anything else that they could possibly have done. Yes Japan's war crimes outweigh the American's, but that does not justify the crass attitude they have against the families that lost people in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Not all Japanese are the ones who are raping and hurting people, and many of the victims of the A-bombs were civilians. Sure some of them supported the war, but I'm sure there were some that just wanted to live in peace, and these are the people that deserve sympathy and regret.

* Regret, that is, on the part of the Allies.

I realize I sound very pro-Japanese at the moment, but it is only in regards to such a comment as "I have no sympathy at all for them." I have no sympathy in regards to Yasukuni Shrine, I am not sympathetic for the persecution my family and my people have faced, nor the use of my home country as a POW camp, but I do feel sympathetic for the civilians and families that are continually affected by the horrors of the atomic bombs.

We cannot live in the past, we have to move on. I do not believe in persecuting the future generations for what was done in the past by other people. I cannot vouch for the Government, but uninvolved families were dragged into it as well on a massive scale, and I feel so so horrible that people would feel no sympathy at all for them, just because they were Japanese, and because their soldiers and their government have done awful things.

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