@ayjay.fortyseven: Notice how a lot of Japan’s media about WWII is set during the end of the war, AFTER they had been bombed #History #wwii #japan #fyp #asia
Hey I’m Chinese who doesn’t love Japan and its actions, but putting down working class citizens who were subject to a fascistic regime, and what is also a war crime isn’t the call imo. One thing doesn’t negate the other
2025-12-30 16:27:56
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user9584831181997 :
Barefoot gen actually talks about the massacres and atrocities the Japanese army committed. Gen himself explains this. Well in the manga atleast I didn’t watched the animation
2026-07-18 08:06:11
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Clutch Powers™ :
Ordinary civilians were not collectively guilty
2025-12-30 14:46:35
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bananabrown :
Grave of the fireflies does put most of the blame on the Japanese government though
2025-12-30 15:51:56
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ProSkilz_22 :
nukes were still totally a war crime tho
2025-12-30 10:08:50
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Timmy :
People dying on both sides ain’t okay
2025-12-30 16:42:16
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thadenho :
Crazy idea, all innocent civilians being harmed to war is bad and terrible. Of course the Japanese media is going to be self centered all media is like that.
2025-12-30 13:57:56
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Amnotizman🇲🇳👅 :
"i have zero media literacy how did you know?"
2025-12-30 18:20:45
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greenputa :
"Ah yes let's compare victims to each other like it's competition run race"
2026-07-30 11:45:31
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Slimeyinsides :
Going band for band on tragedies is insane btw. Both can be bad at the same time
2025-12-30 17:00:20
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haydn :
tbh i dont think the point of grave of the fireflies was to elicit sympathy for imperial japan. but i agree with what youre saying
2025-12-30 06:33:34
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mysh-ish :
Barefoot gen and grave of the fireflies on here just made the entire video invalid. Mind you grave of the fireflies was thr actual author coming to terms with the destb of his sister during the kobe bombings when he was a child omg
2025-12-30 08:44:29
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polka dot :
This is a revival tactic of anti-Japanese propaganda from 80 years ago just to blame ordinary citizens instead of the perpetrators who were actually responsible for Imperial Japan’s war crimes. What the Japanese government did is wrong and horrific, and Japanese people shouldn’t be held responsible for what their government did. You can hold both truths at once. People still don’t know how to or even refuse to separate from the government and ordinary citizens, which is really sad.
2025-12-31 06:08:41
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Studio_Holocene :
Did you even get the point of Grave of the Fireflies? Even the director of the movie stated it was a criticism of Japan’s society and government at the time because their blind pride lead to the death of two innocent children we follow in the story.
2025-12-30 22:32:32
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Bizerker :
Thats not the point 😭
2025-12-30 18:33:34
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j :
they were literally chilling in their towns and cities they weren't soldiers
2025-12-31 13:15:29
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🤖 :
“I like pancakes” “so you hate waffles?”
2025-12-30 23:26:35
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shinreso :
Both were wrong.
2025-12-31 10:38:08
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Andrew 🇬🇷 :
" ordinary civilians were not guilty tho"
2025-12-31 12:18:45
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kaiadapapaya :
Acting like America isn’t doing the same thing with their media
2025-12-31 03:56:06
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What’s my name?♡ 𖤐 :
By the way Japan doesn’t teach people properly about ww2 fascism in schools
2026-01-01 01:12:47
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MichaelaMimi :
Give Barefoot Gen some credit. The creator, Keiji Nakazawa, actually grew up in an anti war family. The movie leaves it out but the characters have a Korean neighbor, based on an actual Korean neighbor of the author. Who constantly helped the Nakazawa Family. And in the manga the neighbor, Mr. Pak, tells Gen that the Koreans suffered twice. First at the hands of the Japanese, and then the atomic bomb. Mr. Pak even goes on to be a successful business man.
2025-12-30 00:17:13
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M :
Both are bad but okay
2025-12-31 04:35:09
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Denyss :
I'm not protecting japan, but a war crime shouldn't be justified because of another one
2025-12-31 11:43:30
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