Reply #95: I've lived in Japan, and this kind of bigotry makes me crazy

[Lydia Leftcoast]

When Americans go to Japan as tourists, they invariably remark on how well the Japanese people treated them.

Having lived there, I have a more nuanced perspective--Japan has its own small subset of right-wing assholes, but they don't have a whole media empire encouraging them-- but it's worth noting that anyone who could have conceivably bombed Pearl Harbor has to be about 90 years old now, if they're still alive, and that EVERYONE under the age of 65 was born after World War II.