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Are we forgetting that the Japanese sided with the literal actual nazis?
yup.
but also:
On December 6, 1938, the Japanese government made a decision of prohibiting the expulsion of the Jews in Japan, Manchukuo, and the rest of Japanese-occupied China. This was described as "amoral", based primarily on the consideration of avoiding antagonizing the United States. Even after Japan and United States became involved in a war against each other, the Japanese government's neutrality towards the Jews continued.
Germany repeatedly tried to get Japan on board with persecuting the Jews and Japan always stepped back and kept a "nah that's your thing we're busy abusing chinese and korean people" policy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan_and_the_Holocaust
Life is rarely simple. History too.
But also https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_731
a covert biological and chemical warfare research and development unit of the Imperial Japanese Army that engaged in lethal human experimentation and biological weapons manufacturing during the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945) and World War II.
Edit: I copy pasted the above from Wikipedia and was too lazy to edit out hyperlinks
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanjing_Massacre
731 and Nanking are literally just the tip of the iceberg. That they weren't anti-semitic is the weirdest fucking take I've ever seen on Imperial Japan.
they weren't anti-semitic. what part of that link did you not comprehend?
you do realize you can abuse people and not be anti-semitic, you could be anti-aryan or anti-roma or anti-gay or anti-whatever, those aren't anti-semitic.
did you not read the whole "we’re busy abusing chinese and korean people” policy part?
No where do I say they were good people doing nice things lol. wtf
Let me clarify:
It's fucking weird and suspect that you think them not caring about the small Jewish population in particular means anything when they genocided 20 million people for not being Japanese.
all I was pointing out was that, while allied with the Axis, they weren't allied in all the ways. You're trying to pick a fight that's not there.