A lodging facility in Kyoto has drawn a protest from the Israeli Embassy in Tokyo for asking an Israeli man to sign a pledge that he had never been involved in war crimes.

  • @zelnix@lemmy.ml
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    -91 month ago

    Are these the same types of war crimes that the Japanese committed in WW2 which they deny and don’t teach they younger generation about?

    • @Woht24@lemmy.world
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      131 month ago

      Probably, but what a government chooses to do and what the populace chooses are two inherently different things.

      There are likely only a couple hundred or maybe thousand Japanese left who even had the opportunity to commit a war crime, yet that Israeli guy might’ve committed one prior to the last full moon.

      So not really the same thing, nice try though, you’ll get there one day.

    • @Count042@lemmy.ml
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      1 month ago

      I don’t know why you are being down voted.

      I love that the Japanese are treating Israeli’s as members of the apartheid genocidal state that they are.

      Japan also hasn’t recognized or paid reparations for many of the horrendous war crimes they’ve committed themselves.

      Both things can be true at the same time.