Thread by @head_bulb

I want you to learn that #JapaneseRisingSun ban campaign as "#JapaneseRisingSun is equivalent to #NaziSwastika for Asian countries" is never a protest that comes naturally out of victims of Japan, but a made-up protest led by S.Koreans on purpose ITFP🐰
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A Korean proves with sources that a view that "#JapaneseRisingSun is a war crime flag" is a newly made-up view that No Korean has mentioned before. Interesting to see that they didn't see #JapaneseRisingSun even as a symbol of Japanese militarism in 1968🐰
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We can see that views that "#JapaneseRisingSun is a Nazi Swastika for Asian countries" or "#JapaneseRisingSun is a war crime/war criminal flag" were newly made-up views since around 2012. Even none of S.Koreans had seen the flag as a controversial flag🐰
murawaki.org/misc/flag.html

We can learn that Japan's officially announced that the design of #JapaneseRisingSun symbolizing the Sun has widely been used in Japan even long before WW2 and that #JapaneseRisingSun has been accepted in the world with no problem🐰
mod.go.jp/e/p_affair/ans…
mofa.go.jp/mofaj/files/00…

We can also learn from #KristieLuStout's good interview with Taro Kono, a former Foreign Minister of Japan, about the growing dispute with S.Korea, nationalism, and why "there is nothing wrong" with #JapaneseRisingSun🐰

https://twitter.com/klustout/status/1170967334363619328

We can see from a book "The Prince of Wales' Eastern book, a pictorial record of the voyages of H.M.S. "Renown", 1921-1922" that the Prince of Wales who later became Edward VIII took pictures of himself with #JapaneseRisingSun when he visited Japan during his world tour in 1922🐰

Those S.Koreans are trying to ban #JapaneseRisingSun just as #NaziSwastika that's been banned to use in public. But we have to remember that the Japanese Army with #JapaneseRisingSun never planned any ethnic cleansing/genocide just like Nazi Germany did🐰
washingtonpost.com/archive/opinio…

S.Koreans are trying to ban #JapaneseRisingSun, just like Germany's banned #NaziSwastika because they think that anything that's a war crime by their standard, must be banned. But remember that Germany still uses Iron Cross for medals etc, which'd been used in Nazi Germany too🐰

I want you to learn that #JapaneseRisingSun is not a symbol of the Japanese Army, ITFP. The flag was just one of tools for the Army. That would be #TaiseiYokusanKai flag that can be a a symbol of the Army during WW2, just like #NaziSwastika that was a symbol of Nazi Germany🐰

I want you to learn that both #TaiseiYokusanKai flag and #JapaneseRisingSun flag that were used during WW2 have already been abolished by Japanese themselves just after WW2 ended. If you have no problem with Germany now, Japan has nothing that needs to be banned in Japan, too🐰

Remember that S.Korea hasn't officially banned #JapaneseRisingSun yet. Those S.Koreans from the country have no right to infringe on other's freedom of expression, nor to complain to their designs with rays of sun who're living in countries that haven't banned the flag too ITFP🐰

This is actually kind of SICK JOKE that those guys from a country where people have enjoyed Nazi Swastika things, come and order us to delete our designs with rays of sun, saying "#JapaneseRisingSun is just as evil as #NaziSwastika". LOOK WHO'S TALKING🙄

As a historical fact, S.Koreans had NO PROBLEM with #JapaneseRisingSun in 1996🐰

If the flag has really been a symbol of Japan's wartime atrocities for them, it cannot have happened for a S.Korean news anchor tells about that with her beautiful smile🐰

S.Korea had NO PROBLEM with #JapaneseRisingSun in ROK International Fleet Review 1998. None of S.Koreans appeared in this news mentioned that "#JapaneseRisingSun is a Nazi Swastika for Asian countries". The flag was not a matter of protest for them then🐰

S.Korea had NO PROBLEM with #JapaneseRisingSun in ROK International Fleet Review 2008. None of S.Koreans appeared in this news mentioned that "#JapaneseRisingSun is a Nazi Swastika for Asian countries". The flag was not a matter of protest for them then🐰

"#JapaneseRisngSun is a Nazi Swastika for Asian countries, where everyone hates to see the flag"??🙄

If that's true, then why none of Asians has complained about this commercial in which a member of a popular K-pop group appears with #JapaneseRisngSun??🙄

As a historical fact, S.Koreans had NO PROBLEM with #JapaneseRisingSun until around 2012. They had NO PROBLEM with LOUDNESS, a Japanese rock band, with #RisingSun on TV even in 2010. Why they're now complaining about what they used to be no problem with?🙄

#SeanOnoLennon & #CharlotteKempMuhl have been harassed by S.Koreans with insults/threats, about the CLASH T-shirt with #JapaneseRisingSun. But S.Koreans had NO PROBLEM with a S.Korean punk rock band wearing a CLASH T-shirt with #JapaneseRisingSun in 2005🐰

Asian countries hate #JapaneseRisingSun?? It seems that N.Korea's had NO PROBLEM with #RisingSun designs. Why N.Koreans are OK with that while S.Koreans have suddenly got mad about the flag if #JapaneseRisingSun really stirs memories of Japan's brutal control of Korea to them??🙄

"#JapaneseRisngSun is a Nazi Swastika for Asian countries, where everyone hates to see the flag"?🙄

It seems that China has no problem with #RisingSun designs. Even China makes lots of scenes with #RisingSun in a Chinese anime "刺客伍六七" by themselves🐰

"#JapaneseRisingSun's been seen as Nazi Swastika in Asian countries, where everyone hates to see it"?🙄

It seems that Filipinos have NO PROBLEM with #JapaneseRisingSun in this video. Other Asian countries seem to have NO PROBLEM with #JapaneseRisingSun😇

S.Koreans had NO PROBLEM with #JapaneseRisingSun in a scene of a Japanese anime with #RisingSun. "Japanese featuring #RisingSun" is a perfect combination that S.Koreans have no choice but to go complain about that. But no complaint has been made so far🙄

I wonder if #JapaneseRisingSun has really been a controversial flag for Asians that makes them offended, then why none of Chinese/S.Koreans have complained about #RisingSun on E.Honda's stage in Street Fighter 2??🙄

I want you, especially men who used to be kids that loved playing video games, remember that no Asian has ever complained about Mai Shiranui with #JapaneseRisingSun in "Fatal Fury2", where Kim Kaphwan, a Korean fighter, first appeared🐰

Interesting that #JapaneseRisingSun is even seen in this kind of local music live stage in S.Korea where people gather for golden oldie songs. Looks obvious that they'd had NO PROBLEM with #RisingSun design until S.Koreans began the propaganda on purpose🐰

Those S.Koreans demand replacement of bridge handrails because its design reminds them of #JapaneseRisingSun. It was placed there in 2012. They'd had no problem until 2019. Why the design with #RisingSun got OK if the flag's really been bad for them ITFP🙄
news.chosun.com/site/data/html…

If a memorial tower in S.Korea that was built 40 YEARS AGO is NOW controversial because it looks #JapaneseRisingSun for them, I wonder why S.Koreans in 1988 Seoul Olympics had NO PROBLEM with its ceremony forming #RisingSun shape?🙄
news.v.daum.net/v/201908121515…

S.Koreans complain to Tokyo Paralympics medals about its designs that remind them of #JapaneseRisingSun. If that kind of design has really controversial for them, then why they had NO PROBLEM with Seoul Olympics, G20 Seioul Summit, and Girls Generation??🙄

It sounds weird for me for S.Koreans to claim that #JapaneseRisingSun is a symbol of the Japanese Army's atrocity because Japan has never had a war with Korea ITFP. Even the US officially pointed out that Korea had never been in a state of war with Japan🐰
dokdo-or-takeshima.blogspot.com/2008/08/1951-c…

Over 800,000 of Koreans had applied to join the Japanese Army by their own free wills during the Japan's control over Korea. Koreans actually were on Japan's side to fight against the Allies. They would be victimizers rather than victims if #JapaneseRisingSun were bad for Asians.

Remember that not all Koreans agree on a claim that the Japan's control of Korea had been nothing but a time of brutal exploitation of resources in Korea. The population had been steadily growing up as if there were always peace in Korea during the time🐰
scholarsinenglish.blogspot.com/2014/10/i-am-9…

Remember that although S.Koreans claim that the period of Japan's control of Korea had been just of brutal exploitation of resources in Korea, Hoover evaluated the 35 years of the times as "the life of the Korean people was revolutionized" in his book #FreedomBetrayed(Page 737)🐰

Japan was invited in #AsianAfricanConference 1955. Kase recalled that Japan had warm welcomes from Asian countries because The Greater East Asia Joint Declaration and Japan's wars with the colonizers over Asian countries helped set the countries free🐰
ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A2…

This is how Japan has apologized and made reparations to the countries and its people that got damaged during WW2. What S.Koreans claim that "Japan has never apologized nor compensated to the victims" is not true🐰
mofa.go.jp/policy/q_a/faq…

This is a list of war apology statements issued by Japan until 2015. Remember that Japan has made no war for over 70 years after the end of WW2. What those S.Koreans claim that "Japan has never apologized for what Japan did during the war" is not true🐰
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_w…

A picture of #JapaneseRisingSun with #NaziSwastika proves nothing. If S.Koreans want to say that the picture can prove atrocities of the two countries, then pictures with #NaziSwastika can prove some atrocity of these countries??🙄
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What these pictures that S.Koreans claim that they're Korean #ForcedLabors abused by Japan, have already been proven to be that men in the 1st & 2nd pictures are ALL JAPANESE, the 3rd one is nothing to do with Japan, and the 4th one is just a movie prop🐰

What S.Koreans claim that these pictures are of #ComfortWomen who were slaughtered by Japanese soldiers, has already been proven by this video that the pictures are nothing to do with #ComfortWomen but of Chinese soldiers that loot Japanese dead bodies🐰

A photo of Japanese soldiers bayoneted a baby is NEVER something that actually happened. This is just one of props for a Chinese movie 等待黎明 in 1984. The movie says that "All events, characters & incidents portrayed in this photoplay are FICTIONAL"🐰

What S.Koreans claim that these pictures prove atrocity of #Unit731 of the Japanese Army has already been proven to be that the 1st is of a Japanese victim of Jinan incident in 1928, and the 2nd is of the Manchurian Plague in 1910🐰
jacar.archives.go.jp/das/image-j/C1…
hahn.zenfolio.com/manchurian_pla…

I want you to know that S.Koreans have already complained even to those things that cannot be seen #JapaneseRisingSun. If we tolerate this newly made-up ban campaign, our freedom of expression or designs with rays of sun will be next to be banned by them🐰
seouleconews.com/news/articleVi…

Those S.Koreans have already complained even to #JohnBurningham's book "Oi! Get Off Our Train" about some illustrations in the book that look like #JapaneseRisingSun for them😩

It was good that the book publisher in S.Korea turned down the complaints🐰
yna.co.kr/view/AKR201909…

Funny that 서경덕 gives a comment to this complaint, saying "We should be careful not instantly to judge anything with sun as #JapaneseRisingSun. We need first to precisely figure out what thoughts or intentions its author has on it.". Look who's talking😇
yna.co.kr/view/AKR201806…

If he really thinks now that S.Koreans need to think twice about what thoughts or intentions others have on designs with rays of sun before complain to the designs as #JapaneseRisingSun, I think that they should apologize to whom they have complained to🐰
yna.co.kr/view/AKR201909…

I want you to realize that if we tolerate or agree on this #JapaneseRisingSun ban campaign, freedom of expression that we have will be next to be banned by them. Those S.Koreans have already complained to Dumbo about its poster that they say it looks like #JapaneseRisingSun🐰