• Deathray5@lemmynsfw.com
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    18 hours ago

    It’s odd that Japan never came to terms with “being the bad guys” in the way Germany did

    • UnspecificGravity@piefed.social
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      18 hours ago

      They didn’t really have to. Germany got split in half, completely lost it’s civilian leadership, and got occupied by two of us adversaries and had a pretty robust war crimes tribunal.

      Japan didn’t have anything like that scale of post war disruption.

    • ieatpwns@lemmy.world
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      15 hours ago

      They did get 2 suns dropped on them. Not that I’m excusing the bombs or Japanese imperialism, Just saying