Man I really hope Japan gets rid of that goddamn party in the government, just for once
They’re insufferable and are a plague both on Japan and the world
WTF, why is Germany appeasing Japan now?
They finished appeasing Russia and they were looking to appease another country now?
Hiding the past is never a good thing!
Doesn’t Germany have enough to be ashamed of about its own past?
Let the Koreans complain to Japan themselves, they do not need Germans to defend them.
So hypocritical.
Just how much pressure and what kind of pressure did the Japanese government throw at this one university?
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Nvm at the very end of the article
>Three days after the statue was installed, the Japanese consul general in Frankfurt, Germany, met with the president of the University of Kassel to request its removal. He claimed that the statue “could promote anti-Japanese sentiment and jeopardize peace in the Kassel region.” The consul general’s visits reportedly continued to the point where the university’s workdays were disrupted.
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>The university was also bombarded with malicious letters and emails from the Japanese far-right. The Korea Verband plans to organize a mass rally at Kassel in the near future to protest the statue’s removal.
Lol what kind of peace is going to be “jeopardized”? If some angry Japanese want to come fuck around, the German police will just lock them up.
The story sounded a bit different here in Germany, from the university’s website.
“Delayed end of a student action on the occasion of documenta fifteen
On the occasion of documenta fifteen, students erected a Korean “peace statue” in front of the student house on university ground. The students were members of the 2022 acting General Students’ Committee of the University of Kassel (AStA). The permission of the University of Kassel was concluded for a limited period of time and already extended by several months. Now it finally expired. The loan of the Korea Association e.V, which had also financed the installation, was professionally removed today (March 9, 2023) and carefully protected in storage until the association takes it back as owner.
Works of art are implemented permanently at the University of Kassel when they are continuously accompanied by teaching and scientific projects, they have a content-related connection to the location, and the senate and presidium decide on them together. This was the case, for example, with the student-initiated “Weg der Erinnerung” (“Path of Remembrance”). That was not the case here.”
The vast majority of objects are dismantled after the Documenta, that is customary. Of course, this doesn’t change the fact that most Japanese suffer from a denial of reality when it comes to this topic.
Good. Madness pissing of an ally .
So maybe the US was a bit too lenient with Japan’s war crimes. Unlike Germany there was never a huge effort to make the Japanese public confront their own history and what had been done in their name with their support. The US was more concerned with the Soviet monster that just took Manchuria than it was with Japan since most Americans were satisfied with the nuclear strikes and didn’t demand much more from Japan except that they alter themselves to better reflect western values and act as a US ally.
This is absurd. Japan is literally denying war crimes and people are just allowing it to happen?
Japan gets away with a lot of shit other countries wouldn’t.
How hard is for Japan to admit they were horrible ? Germans weren’t great either, but denying reality is helping you guys come out better.
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Man I really hope Japan gets rid of that goddamn party in the government, just for once
They’re insufferable and are a plague both on Japan and the world
WTF, why is Germany appeasing Japan now?
They finished appeasing Russia and they were looking to appease another country now?
Hiding the past is never a good thing!
Doesn’t Germany have enough to be ashamed of about its own past?
Let the Koreans complain to Japan themselves, they do not need Germans to defend them.
So hypocritical.
Just how much pressure and what kind of pressure did the Japanese government throw at this one university?
Edit:
Nvm at the very end of the article
>Three days after the statue was installed, the Japanese consul general in Frankfurt, Germany, met with the president of the University of Kassel to request its removal. He claimed that the statue “could promote anti-Japanese sentiment and jeopardize peace in the Kassel region.” The consul general’s visits reportedly continued to the point where the university’s workdays were disrupted.
>
>The university was also bombarded with malicious letters and emails from the Japanese far-right. The Korea Verband plans to organize a mass rally at Kassel in the near future to protest the statue’s removal.
Lol what kind of peace is going to be “jeopardized”? If some angry Japanese want to come fuck around, the German police will just lock them up.
The story sounded a bit different here in Germany, from the university’s website.
“Delayed end of a student action on the occasion of documenta fifteen
On the occasion of documenta fifteen, students erected a Korean “peace statue” in front of the student house on university ground. The students were members of the 2022 acting General Students’ Committee of the University of Kassel (AStA). The permission of the University of Kassel was concluded for a limited period of time and already extended by several months. Now it finally expired. The loan of the Korea Association e.V, which had also financed the installation, was professionally removed today (March 9, 2023) and carefully protected in storage until the association takes it back as owner.
Works of art are implemented permanently at the University of Kassel when they are continuously accompanied by teaching and scientific projects, they have a content-related connection to the location, and the senate and presidium decide on them together. This was the case, for example, with the student-initiated “Weg der Erinnerung” (“Path of Remembrance”). That was not the case here.”
https://www.uni-kassel.de/uni/aktuelles/meldung/2023/03/9/verspaetetes-ende-einer-studentischen-aktion-anlaesslich-der-documenta-fifteen?cHash=e057c8281fc372beae0a237523552496
The vast majority of objects are dismantled after the Documenta, that is customary. Of course, this doesn’t change the fact that most Japanese suffer from a denial of reality when it comes to this topic.
Good. Madness pissing of an ally .
So maybe the US was a bit too lenient with Japan’s war crimes. Unlike Germany there was never a huge effort to make the Japanese public confront their own history and what had been done in their name with their support. The US was more concerned with the Soviet monster that just took Manchuria than it was with Japan since most Americans were satisfied with the nuclear strikes and didn’t demand much more from Japan except that they alter themselves to better reflect western values and act as a US ally.
This is absurd. Japan is literally denying war crimes and people are just allowing it to happen?
Japan gets away with a lot of shit other countries wouldn’t.
How hard is for Japan to admit they were horrible ? Germans weren’t great either, but denying reality is helping you guys come out better.