are you fucking serious right now https://twitter.com/CallemAronsen/status/1277394128498651142?s=20

like, never mind the fact that it's just a sensible, intelligent, common-fucking-sense thing to just have multilingual text in what is regarded as a highly touristed place

the fact that modern Japanese culture is itself an intentional Frankenstein's monster of other people's cultures, up to and including that of the West and Korea is probably a well sign you have not a goddamn idea of what the fuck you are talking about lmao

Like, do you honestly believe we sprung the JR fully formed out of the ground?? Or that our conformist ultra-conservative rigid society was just something we invented in 1933??

I hope you don't like the Japanese writing system or anime or curry or convenience stores or Japanese technology companies or Japanese video games our current Japanese government because I HAVE SOME BAD NEWS FOR YOU WHITEY

hello darkness my old friend

(romanji, if you want to learn, because Japanese culture is to be shared as much as we have borrowed (stolen):

yami mata kita yo
hakujin ga iru mo

"darkness, again, has come"
"white people are here too/again")

in the late 19th/early 20th century Japan self-transformed itself into being a modern secular nation, most based off of the structure of Germany at the time https://twitter.com/AndrewMesser5/status/1277645148525035522

this period was known as the Meiji Restoration. After which, the great depression hit, and Japan began its annexation campaign in WWII.

If you wondered why Japan in WWII aligned so closely with Nazi Germany, it is because we literally pursued fascist German doctrine

later on, after the nuclear bombings and forced surrender, the Americans funded the right-wing conservative Liberal Democratic Party (misnomer name ahoy) during the 1950s in an effort to quash the rising popularity of the Japanese Communist Party as part of the Red Scare

So powerful is the conservative Japanese LDP is that since their win in 1955, they have controlled parliament for 60 of those 65 years. They have basically ruled Japan for the past half-century completely unchallenged to a degree US Republicans or UK Tories can only dream of

So it's not surprising that this New Zealand white nationalist feels entirely comfortable co-opting Japanese nationalism, it's because modern Japanese politics is a direct product of white German and American ethnonationalism

The recent surge of high-profile right wing nationalism in the West has only galvanised Japanese nationalism on home turf.

Here's the LDP's headquarters in Tokyo, flying a banner that says, "our homeland, we must protect".

I'm at least glad that at least we have vocal elements of our entertainment industry that are highly anti-conservative and political, but given that I got extensively "wow cool robot"'ed in the last 48 hours I worry it's just flying over people's heads

also the sunburst japanese flag should be treated like the german nazi and US confederate flags. black lives matter