Ukraine apologizes for juxtaposing Japan emperor to Hitler in video

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1. Galaxy brain moves from these people.

   > Japan is providing $300 million in loans to Ukraine as well as supplies such as gas masks and is also accepting people fleeing from the war-torn country.

   Yeah great move shitting on the regent of the country doing this for you.

   Maybe next they can ask for more money from the USA while airing an ad where they superimpose FDR above Japanese internment camps on the left, George Washington above cotton plantations in the center, and Hitler above Auschwitz on the right. I’m sure that will just erupt mountains of support from Americans to give them their taxpayer money. Great PR team.

2. Dudes wtf

3. Zelensky is as dumb as a rock. No wonder Ukraine is in trouble.

4. Japan still can’t admit their horrible part in ww2 apparently

5. Like he wasn’t a total insane like Hitler and Mussolini.

6. This is the best tl;dr I could make, [original](https://english.kyodonews.net/news/2022/04/8a2e3b1abc1a-ukraine-apologizes-for-juxtaposing-japan-emperor-to-hitler-in-video.html) reduced by 64%. (I’m a bot)
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   > The Ukrainian government has apologized over a video shared on Twitter that juxtaposed a picture of the late Japanese Emperor Hirohito to those of Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini in describing Nazism and fascism.

   > Amid sharp reaction from Japanese Twitter users, Ukraine Ambassador to Japan Sergiy Korsunsky apologized Monday in a tweet, saying the creator of the video lacked an understanding of history.

   > The Japanese government said Monday it has formally requested through a diplomatic channel the removal of the picture of the wartime emperor, posthumously known as Emperor Showa, from the video.

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7. The Japanese government all has ties to to the Nippon Kaigi which is basically a giant uyoku circlejerk, so I’m hardly surprised when those dipshits get bent out of shape because Ukraine pointed out an inconvenient truth.

8. There are some seriously wrong takes in this thread.

   The idea that Japan reacting negatively to Hirohito being paired up with Mussolini and Hitler has to do with actual responsibility is pretty ridiculous. It has much more to do with Japan’s postwar apologist politics than anything.

   Some people above are arguing that Hideki Tojo, the “true” mastermind of–of what? Japanese fascism? Japanese imperialism? The war with the USA?–should replace Hirohito. To which I would ask, why should a person that spent three years as prime minister from 1941 to 1944 be the “face” of the Japanese wartime state? Only Hirohito presided over everything from the beginning of the Second Sino-Japanese War (1931) through the end of the war with the U.S. Moreover, if we’re looking for someone to point at to say that they are specifically responsible for a certain part of the war with the U.S., i.e. the aggression, we can point to Yamamoto Isoroku, who was a main architect of Pearl Harbor and the belief of a kind of shock attack against the U.S. to surprise and force a surrender. (Edit) Remembering more here–Hirohito also presided over coups like the Feb 26 incident in 1936, where the Kōdōha, imperial way faction, attempted to overthrow and purge political and military rivals.

   The idea that the emperor had nothing to do with the war or the Japanese flavor of fascism itself is preposterous. We can argue about the details of whether he explicitly approved this or explicitly approved that, but the reality is that there was one supreme leader during the entire time of Japan’s most aggressive, imperialist, warcrime committing, biological testing, time period. The only reason that the emperor was not deposed and tried in the postwar was because the office for the supreme commander of allied powers did not believe that was a sound political strategy based on their beliefs of how much people revered the emperor. Only after the constitution was rewritten almost entirely by SCAP during the occupation was the emperor declared a symbol of the state with no power.

   This reaction to Hirohito being “slandered” has much more to do with the continuous backsliding of Japanese politics into right wing, emperor-revering stances. It says very little about Japan’s wartime politics (a series of wars and occupations, which, again, lasted from 1931 to 1945, which Hirohito presided over).

   The association is correct. Is it politically tactful from Ukraine? Probably not. But it speaks much more to the relationship that Japanese politics at large have with their wartime past than anything.

9. like…what?

10. [https://twitter.com/mitarasi11111/status/1518266998777860096](https://twitter.com/mitarasi11111/status/1518266998777860096)

    [https://twitter.com/Lisi1186/status/1518262585744773120](https://twitter.com/Lisi1186/status/1518262585744773120)

    Imagine a German defends that Hitler was “forced to wage a war”…Well it’s unimaginable. But Japan is a different story thanks to the successful post-war revisionist education

11. It funny, because of the two countries only one is actively supporting open Nazis.