suburbanerrorist:

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rendakuenthusiast:

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tariqah:

memecucker:

It’s weird how utterly hard it is for ppl on this site to realize that anti-colonial rhetoric is often coopted by reactionary nationalisms even though that was like one of the main idealogical platforms for Imperial Japan

Didn’t Imperial Japan try to position itself as the coloured liberator of all the colonies WHILE COLONISING Korea and China 

Check out the pictures from a 1942 childrens book about how Japan shall be the liberator of the oppressed races and notice what areas are “liberated colonies” and what areas are just colored in as being “Japan”

Do you know what book these images came from? Do you have them in higher resolution?

http://apjjf.org/-James-Orr/2692/article.html

I think I’ve said it before, but yeah, part of the history curricula here involved learning about Japan attacking other Asian countries in the guise of liberating them against the Western colonial powers, and nationalists such as Sukarno and Subhas Chandra Bose welcomed them, while some like Wang Jingwei did so out of political opportunism.

But I remember Indonesian activist and Communist activist Tan Malaka, having witnessed the cruelty the Japanese had displayed to the Chinese during his stay in China was wary about forming an alliance with the Japanese.