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From the Chosun Ilbo...
"Second surprise mission to provoke Korea and China to anger accomplished, sir!” reports the Japanese pilot to his delighted wartime commander, Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, who launched the first attack. Their mission: a massive 101 lawmakers pay their respects at the Yasukuni Shrine, which honors convicted war criminals among the country’s war dead and is the epicenter of historical revisionism in Japan.
Could someone explain to me, in simple terms--so that I might understand --why is it that in the year 2005 Koreans draw Japanese as buck-toothed, mustachioed, Harold-Lloyd-coke-bottle-glasses-wearing dweebs?
What I find intriguing is that a stereotype created by Americo-Europeans in order to reflect their sense of physical superiority is reused by a population with an phenotype nearly identical to that of the Japanese.
ReplyDeleteI think it's intended to emphasize the throwback nature of Japan's resurgent militarism.
ReplyDeleteOr maybe it's a heavily ironic commentary on the Pavlovian cry of WO-O-O-LF from his/her antedeluvian Japan-hating fellow countrypersons.
What does the caption say?
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Thanks. And sorry, I wasn't reading carefully, so I didn't realize that Koizumi's name had been spelled out in the panel, thus my dopey comment.
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