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Defenitely going there next year. Will be in Osaka and Hiroshima seems like a mandatory visit because of its enormous historic significance.
by mschuetz 8y ago
Defenitely going there next year. Will be in Osaka and Hiroshima seems like a mandatory visit because of its enormous historic significance.
- pmarreck 8y agoJust came back from a two-week Japan trip a few weeks ago. Osaka was awesome and we’re sad we only booked one day there (on recommendation, but we’re nightlife people and the travel agent clearly did not cater to our tastes!). Dotonbori blew my mind. We didn’t do Hiroshima and now I also regret that. The people and country are beautiful and the legacy of WW2 makes me very sad.
- WillPostForFood 8y agoHow can you disentangle the people, the country, and the legacy of WWII? Without the war Japan today might be an unpleasant fascist totalitarian power ruling over most of Asia. It is hard to reconcile the Japan of today with imperial Japan and the war crimes in Korea, China, and the Philippines.
- pmarreck 8y agoI guess I'm not trying to disentangle them? The past should be recognized, but there is a limit to how much accountability we can hold peoples and countries to now