The Japanese TV sequence #VIVANT has sparked a backlash. It depicts fictional Chinese characters utilizing torture strategies harking back to these employed by Japan’s invading forces, projecting Japan’s personal wartime brutality onto China.
This malicious smear reduces critical political points to sensational leisure, casting China because the enemy and Japanese covert operatives as heroes.
Such storytelling echoes Japan’s harmful rightward political drift and the rise of neo-militarism.
What occurred to Japan’s guarantees to mirror on its wartime aggression?
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