What do the japanese today think of the Pacific War in WW2?

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it taught us a lesson that wars and nationalism are very bad things
now Japan is one of the least nationalistic countries in the world

>>69644007
They're too busy fapping to their waifu.

It was the best method to become the American dependency.
But Japan should have surrendered early for another two years.

>>69644511
OP said Japanese, not Kim.

>>69644479
But for how long? USA can't defend Japan forever, and eventually Japan will have to make its own military again.

i'm not a cuck who fell for the WGIP and yet think it's a pretty shit-tier war along with the second sino-japanese war in terms of grand strategy. they went to war against some of the biggest countries on earth at once, not even deciding how to finish it, leading to a quite pointless war of attrition.

>>69645330
China wasn't unified at the point, and there was a Communist uprising.

The problem Japan got too greedy.

>>69645513
>jew
>criticizing others for greed

>>69645513
>The problem Japan got too greedy.
This. Have they used the diplomatic approach, wait and fund SEA separatist rebel and befriend and invest in China and make them economy tied with Nip, they would have become a great power by now.

>>69644007
>kantai collection

does this answer your question?

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>horde battleships because you think it'll come down to a giant naval battle
>destroy America's battleship fleet
>force the US navy to rely on carriers and submarines
>end up getting BTFO by American carrier groups

>>69644007
it was a mistake

why didn't they just go around the Philippines to get to Indonesia? They could have avoided war with the US.

>>69646154
They invaded the Philippines a couple hours before they attacked the US. Had it not been for the oil embargo, they would've probably avoided the American territory.

>>69646154
But US already have defense agreement with Brits and Dutch. If one of them get attacked, US will rush in to defend their colony. Or that was what NIp believed.

>>69645943
yeah, but they weren't aware that america churned out like one fleet carrier a month and one escort carrier a week except maybe yamamoto

if they'd gone after Russia instead of the US, Axis would have won

>>69646255
>Japan attacks the US
>US declares war on Japan
>Germans declare war on the US
>70 years later, Third Reich LARPers pretend like Germany dindu nuffin to deserve having America join the Allies in fighting it

>>69646255
They got rekt in Siberia by based Georgy Zhukov and forced Nip to sign an non-aggression pact to defend muh honour like a shitty coward they are.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battles_of_Khalkhin_Gol

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>>69645330
Japan would've won in China if you weren't so cruel to the civilians. Seriously, why was the japanese army so brutal?

>>69646255
you can't fight russia without oil tho
japan's warmachine was on the verge of running out of oil at that point

>>69646329
Germany would've won if they made a UPA led Ukraine into an ally instead of wanting to annex it and treating Ukrainians like shit.

>>69646367
There's no time to form alliances when you're trying to carve a path to Moscow and simultaneously fighting the Brits.

>>69646298
the US was going to declare war on Germany anyway. By declaring war, Germany kept the hope of Japan attacking the USSR.

>>69646406
You don't have to form alliances when the local population is
a) willing to be your ally as long as you promise independence
b) already helping you because they despise your enemies

>>69644007
>We did Pearl Harbor and then got nuked twice
90% only know that

So was the co-prosperity sphere thing real or just an excuse to invade other countries?
If japan wanted a group free from western influence I'm sure asking nicely would have fared better than invasion.

>>69646329
>Seriously, why was the japanese army so brutal?
yellow journalism stirred them

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>>69646489
When they invaded the Philippines, they presented themselves as liberators helping their fellow asians from the evil yankee rulers.

>>69646489
>So was the co-prosperity sphere thing real or just an excuse to invade other countries?
both were true, because japanese empire wasn't as monolithic as it is believed.

>>69646519
Why is the american soldier wearing a british helmet

>>69646692
That's what they wore during their first couple of years until they developed their own helmet.

>be japan army
>attack china believing they will surrender soon
>fug they dont surrender xD
>all force stuck in china, deadlocked
>be nazis
>make double front with barbarossa believing soviet will surrender soon
>be waitin' japan joinin' : - DDDD
>be japan army at that time
>fug army will die if make another front with soviet xDDDD
>haha too bad germans we gonna made non aggressive pact with soviet lol
>be japan navy
>hmmm US is anyway our enemy lets wreck their boats and carriers they will make truce with us soon
>pearl harbor raid lol
>bakayaro! no carrier there xDDDDDDDDD
>fugggggggggg we be losin 4 carriers in midway xDDDDDDD

failure at literally every single moment

>>69646806
did you get F's on both history and english?

>>69646855
But he got it right.

>>69646855
Nothing he said was wrong in terms of history, though.

>>69646519
You don't see the M1917 depicted in propaganda very often.

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>>69646855
it is inevitable
it is incurable

I won't stop learning it anymore. I don't want myself to hate Americans and white scums back then and Asians with no balls back then etc

>>69648519
I will

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>>69644479
>now Japan is one of the least nationalistic countries in the world

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>tfw you will never have a moniker as cool as "Gaijin Shogun"

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>>69647009
>tfw someone posts your oc

>>69646512
Japan dindu nuthing wrong

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>>69647009
It spreads :----D fugg

>>69646855
He actively pointed what japs are retards since 1905 (never forget never forgive).

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>>69644007
What do the japanese today think of the soviet win in manjuria in WW2?

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>>69648555
I can't say he's wrong

>>69650881
You're still very patriotic. On japanese TV, I only saw programs telling us how great japanese food, traditions, technology are.

Just it was very bad guys stop sucking Japan...

>>69651204
I know those shows. it's more like pathetic I guess.
anyway, it's totally backlash and proves how japs lost their confidence.