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Korean President Yoon sits idly by as Japan tears down memorial to Korean forced laborers (english.hani.co.kr)

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

You’re right, they had no uprising. The US wanted a client state in the region, so in the reconstruction it installed a bourgeois democracy that was and is subservient to it. We still have dozens of military bases there, despite the complaints & protests of Japanese residents.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

for those who don't want to go through wiki articles, what he means is essentially after wwii, the US was like o shit communism. better be friends with Japan so we can install a bunch of army bases so we can have control in that area. Japan, ravaged by war, was just like... ok. which is why they get a lot of passes in western society for the shit they pulled in history. the end.