Japan was an axis power, and those sentiments are alive and well over there. At least Germany bans the Nazi flag and the heil. Japan is literally still the same empire with the same royal family, complete with all the symbology.
It’s the US’s fault. They came in, and basically did fuck all about the fascist-imperial sentiments everyone there have. If the USSR had got to them, their entire government and national identity would have been gutted and all the fascist officials, including the emperror, taken to the wall. Rightfully. And they wouldn’t have been nuked either, that wasn’t actually a strategic move so much as “well we haven’t used this superweapon yet so…”
Japan was an axis power, and those sentiments are alive and well over there. At least Germany bans the Nazi flag and the heil. Japan is literally still the same empire with the same royal family, complete with all the symbology.
It’s the US’s fault. They came in, and basically did fuck all about the fascist-imperial sentiments everyone there have. If the USSR had got to them, their entire government and national identity would have been gutted and all the fascist officials, including the emperror, taken to the wall. Rightfully. And they wouldn’t have been nuked either, that wasn’t actually a strategic move so much as “well we haven’t used this superweapon yet so…”