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c/globalnews · by BrikoX@lemmy.zip · 89d

Japan museum under fire for ‘rewriting history’ with Nanking ‘incident’ label

https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/politics/article/3356254/japan-museum-under-fire-rewriting-history-nanking-incident-label

Conservatives force the Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum to drop the word massacre, a move critics say downplays Japan’s wartime aggression.

Archived version: https://archive.is/20260608050003/https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/politics/article/3356254/japan-museum-under-fire-rewriting-history-nanking-incident-label

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Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 11 pts · 89d (3 replies)

Yeah, if you do something so heinous that it's commonly referred to as "The rape of $CITY", I don't think you get to call it an incident. Are they also referring to unit 731 as "a bunch of wacky scientists"?

DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social · -3 pts · 89d (2 replies)

https://www.koreajoongangdaily.com/korea/abes-pose-resurrects-horrors-of-unit-731/10058282

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And people wonder why I don't give a single shit that two cities were destroyed with two big bombs instead of ten thousand little ones like every other city destroyed by a war they started.

Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 88d (1 reply)

Yikes

DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social · -2 pts · 87d

I know, it's pretty sad that something that obvious has to be explained to the simpering masses.

xiao@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 89d

“This is all part of the revisionists’ plan to downplay and minimise what Japan inflicted on the rest of Asia during the so-called liberation struggle from European colonial powers,” said Jeff Kingston, director of Asian Studies at Temple University’s Tokyo branch.

“When they say the Nanking ‘incident’, it’s a euphemistic way of referring to the tens of thousands of Chinese civilians who were rounded up by the Japanese military and simply slaughtered,” he said. “The revisionists want to sanitise that.”