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.

      • Count042@lemmy.mlEnglish
        21·
        10 months ago

        The Japanese government won’t acknowledge many of its war crimes or paid reparations to its still living victims.

        If Germany said the Holocaust never happened, that would reflect very poorly on the German citizens that continue to elect the Holocaust denying government officials and you would be justified in asking German tourists if they acknowledged the Holocaust.

      • Tattorack@lemmy.worldEnglish
        22·
        10 months ago

        This isn’t “whataboutism”, this is pointing out a “pot and kettle” situation.

    • Count042@lemmy.mlEnglish
      111·
      10 months 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.