#japanese imperialism

[khizuo]

some japanese ww2 atrocities you might not have heard of:

germ warfare in harbin

extensive human experimentation (that the us covered up)

operation sook ching (singapore)

bataan death march (philippines)

romusha slave labor in southeast asia

#japanese imperialism #japan #decolonization #my text

[commajade]

#shinzo abe #nodutdol #japanese imperialism

[glieseart]

THE "COMFORT" WOMEN OF ASIA: a zine 🦋

Hi everyone, we made a zine about an ongoing fight for the rights of "comfort" women from Korea, China, Taiwan, and the Philippines, who were enslaved by the Japanese military. We explored their art, stories, and worldwide memorials.

HERE is the printable, HERE is the online booklet. Transcription will be available soon!

#zine #zines #comfort women #anti imperialism #japanese imperialism #art history #student organization #gliese art collective #art #korea

[without-ado]

l 데니 태극기 Denny's Taegeukgi (left): the oldest one among Taegeukgi flags found in Korea. This was given to O. N. Denny (1838-1900, an American diplomatic advisor) by King Gojong of Korean Empire (cr. 문화재청)

815 광복절 Happy National Liberation Day of Korea!

“I want our nation to be the most beautiful in the world. By this I do not mean the most powerful nation. Because I have felt the pain of being invaded by another nation, I do not want my nation to invade others. It is sufficient that our wealth makes our lives abundant; it is sufficient that our strength is able to prevent foreign invasions. The only thing that I desire in infinite quantity is the power of a noble culture. This is because the power of culture both makes ourselves happy and gives happiness to others.” —Kim Gu 백범 김구 cr.

l 광복(restoration of light) means the end of the darkness of Japan’s rule over the Korean peninsula

#south korea #광복절 #independence #ww2 #liberation day of korea #1945 #japan #japanese imperialism #koreans #history #korea #taegeukgi

[queststhroughduality]

#artificial intelligence #midjourney #ai art #futurism #scifi #sci fi art #cigar shaped craft #ufo #cigar shaped ufo #white house #reptilian #retrofuturism #the matrix #cyberspace #japanese #cyborg #japanese imperialism #the moon #moon #moon base

[wearejapanese]

Lee A. Tonouchi Special to Da Hawai‘i Herald

My great grandma who wuz born in Okinawa in 1885 had traditional Okinawan hand tattoos known as hajichi. Esteemed Okinawan cultural expert, Eric Wada of da eju-ma-cational group Ukwanshin Kabudan wen do field research on what motivated Okinawan women for get their hajichi. Wada Shinshï (teacher) shares “hajichi was around and in use from pre-contact times so there is no written documentation of exactly when and how it started, however through oral and documented information, it evolved into a woman’s right of passage to adulthood and had many other spiritual connections, such as genealogy, cosmology and social status.”

Growing up my great grandma felt ashamed of her tattoos cuz in Okinawa, Okinawans wuz coming for be made for feel ashamed of everyting Okinawan. When she came Hawai‘i to work plantation, my great grandma wuz so self-conscious that she made my grandma promise that when she ma-ke time, she wanted to be put in da casket with gloves on.

But how could something that wuz once one mark of great cultural pride transform into one mark of shame? Wada Shinshï explains, “hajichi was banned and discouraged after the illegal annexation and overthrow of the Ryükyü Kingdom in 1879, which resulted in implementation of assimilation programs by the Japanese government, which brainwashed the native people to be ashamed of their ‘savage’ cultural practices and assimilate to the modern and ‘civilized’ Japanese culture.”

For da past several decades dis art form for Okinawan women had been dying out to da point where I noticed that most of my younger friends in Okinawa had nevah even seen hajichi before. Das how rare it wuz.

Interestingly, in da past couple few years seems like get one revival going on. Wada Shinshï shares his mana‘o on dis phenomenon: “I am happily cautious about the hajichi resurgence and optimistic because things that have been put to sleep can come back. There will be individuals who just want to do it as a fad or without such deep connections, and that is their choice, but for the most part, I see more interest in reviving the tradition connected to the deeper spirituality and identity.”

Below get tree young Local Uchinänchu women and their hajichi stories.

Read more...

#hajichi #okinawan #okinawa #shimanchu #uchinanchu #japanese imperialism #japanese colonization

[sissa-arrows]

Have you ever had to deal with those "Actually, Algeria wasn't even a colony, just a Protectorate! 🤪 It didn't even last 80 years stop crying 🤪" people? Like I constantly seen this with people about Japan colonizing Korea, saying it wasn't truly colonialism because the Koreans were "free" (lmao?) and only lasted around 30 years.

You’re probably confusing Algeria with an other country cause it was a colony not a protectorate and it lasted 132 years (exactly from July 5th 1830 to July 5th 1962). Like even the most far right white supremacists who regrets colonialism won’t deny these two facts. That’s probably the one thing where they agree with us. So if anyone had the audacity to try that on me I would start by laughing and then probably insulting them cause I’m not in favor of educating racist pieces of shit. It’s 2024 education is for those who genuinely want to learn not those who are still racist and proud of it. This second category only deserves to be shamed, humiliated and insulted.

Morocco and Tunisia were protectorates Algeria was not that’s why I say our colonial history is different. But given that we’re often lumped in together somehow I’m not surprised that you thought Algeria was also a protectorate.

That being said whether it lasts 10 years of 5 centuries, whether it’s a colony or a protectorate or an “overseas territory” it’s still colonialism, it’s still oppression, it’s still a traumatic experience for natives and it’s still a crime against humanity. So people who tell you what Japan did to Korea is okay are just racist pieces of shit who don’t deserve your attention unless it’s to insult them.

Also Japan is similar to Morocco in that because they ain’t white people forget way too much their colonial empire and the way they oppressed people they saw as inferior to them. They definitively don’t get enough backlash for their colonialism especially when to these days they still align themselves with the colonizers on world issues and it’s actually not common knowledge for many people who haven’t been affected by said colonialism.

#ask #Japanese imperialism #colonialism #anti colonialism

[softsoundingsea]

Japan removes monument for Korean forced labor victims despite criticism

By Yi Wonju

TOKYO, Feb. 1 (Yonhap) -- A Japanese local government has taken down a memorial stone for Korean victims of Japan's wartime forced labor at a public park earlier this week despite opposition from activist groups.

Authorities from Gunma Prefecture began pulling down the stone on Monday and finalized the removal on Wednesday, Japan's Asahi Shimbun newspaper reported the next day.

Aerial photographs taken by the news outlet showed the remains of what appeared to the base of the memorial stone smashed into pieces at the site.

The authorities are said to have spared the epitaph of the stone and handed it over to a civic group handling the memorial stone, before tearing down the concrete wall.

The phrase, "Remembrance, Reflection and Friendship," is engraved in Korean, Japanese and English on the epitaph.

The memorial stone was erected in 2004 by a civic group in Japan to promote the public's understanding of the shared past history from Japan's 1910-45 colonial rule of the Korean Peninsula and the friendship between the two neighbors.

In 2014, Gunma Prefecture refused to extend the state approval for the establishment of the stone, claiming a civic activist made inappropriate remarks about the forced labor victims during a 2012 memorial event.

Japan's top court ruled in favor of the Gunma authorities in 2022, but the civic group has filed for separate suits seeking to block the removal.

Source: https://en.yna.co.kr/view/AEN20240201008400315

#japanese imperialism #news #japan #korean victims #korean #gunma prefecture #gunma #memorial #forced laborers

[hellyeahheroes]

Attack on Titan and the Road to Fascism by Lost Futures.

#thought provoking #fascism #japanese imperialism #imperialism #war crimes #mass murder #genocide #Youtube

[elfilibusterismo]

"After Japan's victory over the Russians in 1905, Japanese pan-Asianism took on a politically charged character, with the Japanese touting themselves as a model for successful resistance to European rule. Residents of other "Asian" nations, anxious for liberation from European colonialism, originally supported this idea with enthusiasm. But by the 1930s, it was clear that Asian unity on Japanese terms was merely another form of colonial oppression, and Japanese arguments over the spatial dimensions of Asian culture tended to recede before political expedience. Ultranationalist ideologues increasingly framed their country's imperium as the only Asiatic entity that could create an appropriate political space for Asian peoples."

— Martin W. Lewis and Kären E. Wigen, The Myth of Continents: A Critique of Metageography

#my post #japanese imperialism

[dreamspring]

low key cannot be the only one bothered by the consistent and overwhelmingly normalised erasure of Japanese colonialism and war crimes happening constantly on the Western internet. It’s often in the form of ‘white ppl bad colonisers, Japanese (POC) not’ like hey. what are you even talking about

recent examples include. i saw a viral tiktok that was like ‘my coloniser white half fighting my Japanese poc half🤪’ guy both ur halves are colonisers by that estimate. the nanjing massacre happened in the 1930s. also, in BES the scene where the evil white man (fowler) is like ‘ur white half is showing’ after the MC burns down a city. hm. why are we racialising colonialism in such a way that erases non white people from having participated in it. and can we fucking stop!

those are just some random examples i have seen recently. there’s so little knowledge or acknowledgment around this topic i wouldn’t be surprised if these people didn’t know their own history. its insane how erased Japanese colonialism has been from the western historical narrative to the point we don’t even view them as colonisers. they’ve never formally acknowledged their actions during WW2 or given reparations. and yet the only narrative we hear about ww2 japan is that they got bombed and that was really bad (which it was? but it’s clearly also propaganda?).

this was an unhinged rant by me. i have no conclusions please just stop ✋

#mossy posts #japanese imperialism #BES #🌿

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

"Upon hearing that Japan might compel China to recognise its control of German interests in Shantung, the laborers [from China, hired to work in French factories and to dig trenches on the Western front] sent a petition to Lu Zhengxiang, the Foreign Minister, urging him not to accept. A pistol was even included with the petition, which threatened that 'if Lu agrees to Japan's demands, he should commit suicide with this pistol. Otherwise, we will kill him.'"

- from Xu Guoqi, China and the Great War. Cambridge University Press: 2005. p. 166.

#academic quote #world war 1 #chinese history #Xu Guoqi #chinese labour corps #corps de travailleurs chinois #中国劳工旅 #japanese imperialism #republic of china #empire of japan #labour battalion #shantung

[khizuo]

the japanese imperialist war crime denial is truly off the charts evil. how many people know that the japanese imperial army did human experimentation. how many people know about japan's systems of slave labor during ww2. how many people still view the rising sun flag as a fun quirky symbol and aestheticize japanese militarism and racism in anime.

#did you know that over 15 million chinese people are estimated to have died as a result of the japanese invasion? did you? #my text #japanese imperialism

[shihlun]

“Formosan Tableaux” and “Formosan Tea Plantation”, in Japan-British Exhibition, Official Report of the Japan British Exhibition 1910, at the Great White City, Shepherd’s Bush, London (Tokyo, Japan: Author, 1910), 127

#japan british exhibition #exposition #1910 #日英博覧会 #台湾 #taiwan #formosa #display #colonialism #imperialism #japanese imperialism

[belle-keys]

- Testimonies by Emily Jungmin Yoon

#poetry #asian poetry #korea #korean history #east asian history #a cruelty special to our species #emily jungmin yoon #poets #modern poetry #sino japanese war #japanese imperialism #women writers #woc writers #poetry aesthetic

[without-ado]

The 77th anniversary of Korea's Liberation Day

815 Gwangbokjeol (815 광복절; literally, "August 15, 1945, the day the light returned")

August 15th is also celebrated by many countries as Victory Over Japan Day, the day Japan was defeated and World War ll came to an end.

scene of cutting Japan's "rising sun" flag from K-drama [각시탈, Bridal Mask]

In1940, Germany, Italy and Japan formed the Axis powers by signing the Tripartite Pact in Berlin. And the Japanese imperial navy used the "rising sun" flag until its defeat in World War II in 1945 as Japan had colonized, invaded or occupied Korea, parts of China and other Asian countries.

So, in many of Asian countries, Japan's "rising sun" flag is regarded as a symbol of Japanese militarism and colonial rule just like how the Nazi swastika is a symbol of Nazis which reminds Europeans of invasion and horror.

Japanese "rising sun" flag and Nazi Germany's Reichskriegsflagge hung together at a reception for the Japanese warship U-511 that arrived in Penang, Malaysia in 1943 (sr. Insight Korea)

#Liberation Day of Korea #liberation #ww2 #south korea #korea #japan #Happy Liberation Day #koreans #1945 #August 15 #japanese imperialism #history #war #colonization