Re: The car customizing video includes Rising Sun symbol
@808-Stat3 wrote:I think you are overreacting . The Hakenkreuz Flag was in the same image displayed because Japan was in alliance during WWII . Hakenkreuz Flag was banned through German Authorities due to the history of the Holocaust connected to it. Your statement is also your biggest contradiction. If Japanese people deem it as harmless it should be harmless to you as well. If the Rising Sun Flag is an insult to you in "YOUR" opinion I believe some Japanese people may be insulted by the American Flag since American Military dropped 2 Atomic Bombs on Japan back in those days. Opinions vary my friend and I don't think it should be an issue to anyone. It's all a point of view and if we all could look at things a bit more less sensitive we'd all have a better time. Aloha .. Oh btw ,, I live in Hawaii which was attacked back then by the Japanese and I am not a bit insulted because it's simply a part of history that we all simply learn from it 😉
I don't know how to reply to different people at the same time. I'll have to leave the replies discretely.
The problem is that the point of views from different countries are not the same. Japanese government and education try to ignore or erase the shameful history of their own. So even if they consider the Flag as totally acceptable, the others cannot easily accept it like them. Maybe because of their attitude towards what had happened we can't agree with them.
Next, American Flag can't be a comparison here because the Rising Sun Flag is not the national flag of Japan. Anyone says that the national flag of Japan should be banned? I don't know if there's any American flag which was used during WW2, and I don't know how Japanese people think if they see such a flag (if it exists ever).
Again, as you said, what is important is that we learn from the history. But at least for this matter Japanese government and education system are not willing to learn from what had happened before. They stay silent on sensitive historical issues and try to reinstate their military. This issue is so complicated, but I can't ignore this. Anyway, I understand what you meant and don't mean to oppose anyone emotionally.
