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Re:A Closer Look at North Korea’s Ullim Tablet by charles-salvia on Monday May 01, 2017 @10:26AM (#14237649)
> It's odd how this is portrayed as a negative aspect of Japan's militarism, when the Allies were fighting the same war with the same attitude.

That's not the point, obviously. The point is Japan's militarism combined with their utter over-the-top brutality and expansionist agenda.

Re:A Closer Look at North Korea’s Ullim Tablet by krapp on Monday May 01, 2017 @07:06PM (#14242578)
> The point is Japan's militarism combined with their utter over-the-top brutality and expansionist agenda.

Everything Japan learned about Imperialism it learned from the West, though. The Empire of Japan may have been brutal, but the Allies were hardly angels in comparison, or lacking in their own expansionist ideals.

Re:A Closer Look at North Korea’s Ullim Tablet by quirkafleeg on Tuesday May 02, 2017 @01:02AM (#14244068)
> the Allies were hardly angels in comparison, or lacking in their own expansionist ideals

Well quite. How was Japan able to attack "the USA" (itself established by over-the-top brutality and expansionism) in the first place? Because the US had earlier overthrown, occupied, suppressed and militarised territories that are actually closer to Tokyo than Washington DC.

How dare some Asian country think it could colonise Asia, when Asia belongs to the US and Europe.