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China condemns Pokemon, Detective Conan for spreading ‘Japanese militarism’
(www.taipeitimes.com)
this post was submitted on 10 Feb 2026
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I don't know about the Detective Conan bit, but the Pokémon part is that the Pokémon website has (had?) a feature where certified people can setup TCG events, and someone organized one at the Yasukuni Shrine, the one for the war criminals.
Chinese people on the internet were upset, China made a statement, the Pokémon Company apologized
Now personally I think this is less on Pokémon and more on Japan having a shrine celebrating pillagers and rapists.
EDIT: Looks like the reason people are upset over Detective Conan is that they did a promotional crossover with My Hero Academia, and in My Hero there's a character named Maruta Shiga who does human experiments. Maruta (literally "log") is what the "scientists" of Unit 731 called the people they killed.
Yeah, Japan has a beautiful culture and all but the way they handled themselves after WWII with the things they did during WWII hasn't been very, shall we say, honorable.
Germany went full "fuck fascism with an umbrella", sometimes to the point where they should tone it down just a liiiiitle bit, but Japan went full "we did what we had todo and we didn't do anything bad"
Japan did horrible things, like Nazi Germany, and it's time they stand up and admit what happened, and take some basic responsibility so that we can all move on
Pretty much every country has shitty pasts, almost every country has had war mongerers, it's fine, just admit it, admit that some assholes that were born in your country hurt people, so that we can learn from it and continue forward
Also looking at you, Turkey, and for the next 100 years or so, you as well Israel... And while we're at it, you too Russia. And China. And India. And USA.