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.
Classic Japanese. No dancing around or confusion about anti-semitism, just straight out asking the Israeli about recent war crimes.
Had the same as a Swiss guy living there: sure, everybody loves Roger Federer, but they also know about Nazi gold and the banking secret protecting dictatorships. And they just ask about it directly. Would never happen on Japanese topics though.
Yeah, it feels slightly tone-deaf for Japan to be doing this. It’s not quite as bad as the USA dong this but it is close
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Japan: “did you commit war crimes?”
Israel: “i’m outraged”
Japan:“that isn’t a ‘no’…”If being asked to confirm that you have not committed war crimes makes you uncomfortable, then you might be a war criminal.
I’m pretty sure Japan’s immigration asks if you’ve ever been convicted of a crime, so how is this any different?
Its what the free market wants ;)
If israel doesn’t like this treatment then they should stop the policy of forcing israeli citizens to serve in the israel genocide forces.
What’s the protest? “We don’t want to be pointed at when we commit war crimes” ?
The embassy thinks it is messed up to ask people if they committed war crimes.
This is ignoring they ask people from 10 different nations this question.
the same amount of war crimes as happened in Nanjing
Japanese man scribbles down zero
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Probably, but what a government chooses to do and what the populace chooses are two inherently different things.
There are likely only a couple hundred or maybe thousand Japanese left who even had the opportunity to commit a war crime, yet that Israeli guy might’ve committed one prior to the last full moon.
So not really the same thing, nice try though, you’ll get there one day.
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.
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.
