Warner Bros. Japan apologizes after the U.S. Twitter account for the movie promotes posts that appear to make light of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

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    1 year ago

    Understandable honestly, in all seriousness. Germany (or Israel, or Poland) probably wouldn’t be that happy about Auschwitz jokes either if a movie about that came out around the same time as a new Shrek or something.

    The nukes were a mass genocide.

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      1 year ago

      Japan was engaged in a ton of war crimes in WWII and later made one of the worst war criminals the PM. They later elected the grandchild of that same war criminal who celebrated his grandfather.

      Japan can complain all they want but no one should care about those complaints.

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      The nukes were a mass genocide.

      Uhhh no? They were a targeted show of force in order to end the war because Japan was never going to surrender otherwise. “Genocide” implies America was trying to erase the Japanese people entirely.