#east west japan

[alienorchids]

Various Artists - Behind the Mask vol.2 -SOL'FINSTERRE-

AMCM-4348

1997

[troythecatfish]

Hotels in Japan turn away Israelis over fears of links to the Israeli military

Israelis have posted numerous complaints on Facebook that they are being turned away by hotels in Japan due to possible links to the Israeli military and complicity in war crimes.

Source: Mintpress

[juridical-angel-blog]

Special Artistic Poster ''Couples'' Detective Conan!

[griancraft]

I'm struggling to word this but I'm finally ready to talk about it and I want people to listen.

I've noticed a type of racism in leftist communities I don't see talked about a lot. I am Quarter Japanese and I am visibly mixed, but a lot of leftists see "quarter" and assume that I don't have the right to an opinion on issues that effect me. The sentiment I've gotten from mostly white leftists is that I'm not "POC enough" for a lot of discussions.

There's this weird thing in a lot of leftist spaces where your appearance and percentage, not your experiences based on your race, are considered above all.

Meanwhile, in reality, all aspects of my identity are affected by my race and my family's experience with Japanese internment. An event which stripped them of any wealth they had acquired since moving to Canada over 50 years before the war.

An event that cause the intermarriage rate of Japanese-canadians and white Canadians to be over 90 percent post internment because we viewed proximity to whiteness as safety. An event which left them in severe poverty until my dad and aunt worked their asses off to get a degree. The generational trauma goes so deep my dad didn't want me transitioning because he was worried about what the government would do to me.

Because of my race I experienced negligence from authority figures related to pretty severe racially based bullying at 12. That negligence could have killed me. I've had to deal with microaggressions and straight up racism related to my last name on multiple occasions.

One time I was out with a friend and he grabbed my arm tight and dragged me to walk faster. A man wearing a white lives matter T-shirt was standing in the middle of the path looking directly at me when I turned around.

I'm pretty sure this wasn't based on me being feminine and goth that day, I live in a city with a decent amount of people in alt subculture and my friend was way more gothed up and queer than me. I was barely passing as a guy at that point so it wasn't because I was a man in a dress. I know this is a weaker point, but it made me realize just how unsafe I am in my own community even though I'm a mixed person in a heavily multicultural city.

Obviously, this isn't on the scale of someone who is less white passing than me and/or has more compounding marginalizations. However I've found that the fact I'm mixed race has been used against me to devalue my experience and knowledge regarding what it's like to be a POC in Canada.

I can assure you I am aware of how bad it is, and I am aware of how good I have it. I also want you to be aware that it's not all sunshine rainbows and bunny farts to be more white, it doesn't make the racism go away. It often just makes it more covert and easy to explain away because I'm "not really Japanese"

[germanfamily]

[peonycats]

What are your favourite kinds of Japan content? Or alternatively, what are your least favourites?

I'm a huge aph Japan fan, and I'm always curious abt this stuff.

Hmmm, well honestly I could talk all day about this topic LMAO but for your sake and mine I'll keep it brief and focus mostly on two especially grating depictions i dislike. I have some posts queued up down the line for how i tend to see japan so feel free to ask me about that when i get around to posting it ehehe

"Polite, cute, shy, quiet" japan depictions reallllly don't work for me. Like it's one thing to say that Japan is a reserved guy who puts value in having good manners and doesn't want to come across as rude, but it's another to turn him into a wilting flower who's easily dominated by louder personalities and turns into a side character. Besides it falling into ur typical trope of the "diminutive east asian who needs to be taught by their loud non easian (usually white) partner how to stand up for themself and live life a little," I think it's just patently false, both canonically and historically lmao. Like hima has called Japan a stubborn old man before, and history will tell you that Japan is nothing if not resourceful and very very proud, lol. He may bite his tongue, but I imagine that hes not someone who easily gives up or submits or at least without a fight 😂

Germany-Italy-Japan trio, or "Axis" trio, depictions never go over well for me, lol. I'm of the mindset that you can't really divorce them from their history in WW2, especially if you're going to call them the Axis, like lol the least you could do is call them something new. Furthermore, Geritapan depictions in my opinion are terrible with tokenizing japan as the sole character of color/east asian in the group, but the Worst Geritapan Depictions as of late are shipping gerita with japan off in the cuck chair?? I'm not saying we need to give Japan bitches (because lord knows he doesn't deserve any) but wow, congrats, you made your only East Asian man an emasculated yellow guy who just pines and copes over a white love interest who dgaf about him <3 a win for diversity!!!

anyways, if you're going to ship gerita but treat japan like this, i would rather you ship germany and italy together like a normal person and leave japan out of it 🙏

[akkivee]

🎶you think you’re mad too unstable, kicking in chairs and knocking down tables in a restaurant in a west end town 🎶

lol our new oridivi!!!! meet hachiouji division: west end mafia!!!!!!

[noticiasarquelogicasjaponesas]

Sean bienvenidos, japonistasarqueólogos, en esta ocasión os expongo una situación en lo que respecta al mundo occidental y oriental, dos caras de una misma moneda, ya sea historia del arte, arqueología, geografía, entre otros temas, vengo a exponer el gran desequilibrio que hay en lo que respecta a estas dos corrientes, dicho esto pónganse cómodos que comencemos. - En la foto de mi mano izquierda podemos ver claramente los países que engloban las corrientes de extremo oriente, que es el tema en particular de la publicación y al margen derecho podemos ver algunos países de occidente, entre otros. Voy a coger las palabras más sabias para explicar este desequilibrio de corrientes, que por desgracia, parece que los occidentalistas están implantando la idea del siglo XIX como que lo occidental es mejor que extremo oriente, ya que oriente al estar en la Cochinchina, pues se le tiene en un rango inferior y no es el caso. Si le preguntamos a la gente de la calle, el 90% de la gente si le preguntaras cosas de dicho tema, lo más probable es que no sepan nada, porque carecen de la ignorancia, pero que no es culpa de ellos, sino de cómo se han enseñado las cosas por parte de los gobiernos de los distintos países occidentales. - Otros puntos que vamos a resumir en este párrafo, serían la gente que lo difunde y fermenta la occidentalización, erradicando la orientalización de extremo oriente normal que la gente que divulgamos cosas, de extremo oriente, no tengamos el apoyo suficiente o solo de una parte. - Espero que os haya gustado, posdata estoy dando mi punto de vista, lo más probable es que haya gente que no lo comparta, otros si y otros se mantengan al margen nos vemos en próximas publicaciones. - ようこそ、日本の考古学者の皆さん、この機会に、私は美術史、考古学、地理など、同じコインの裏表である西洋と東洋の世界に関する状況を紹介します。これら 2 つの流れに関しては、そうは言っても、安心して始めましょう。 - 私の左手の写真には、この出版物の特別なテーマである極東海流を含む国々がはっきりと見え、右側にはいくつかの西洋諸国などが見えます。私はこの流れの不均衡を説明するために最も賢明な言葉を使うつもりだが、残念なことに、西洋主義者たちは、東洋はコーチシナにあるので西洋のほうが極東よりも優れているという19世紀の考えを植え付けているようだ。それは彼をより低いランクに置いているのですが、そうではありません。街行く人々に尋ねると、90％の人が、この話題について尋ねると、ほとんどの場合、彼らは無知なので何も知らないということですが、それは彼らのせいではなく、物事がどうなっているのかということです。さまざまな西側諸国の政府によって教えられてきました。 - この段落で要約するその他の点は、それを広め、西洋化を発酵させ、極東の東洋化を根絶する人々です。極東から物事を広める人々が十分な支持を得ていないのは正常ですまたは片側からのみ。 - 気に入っていただければ幸いです。追記 私は私の見解を述べていますが、おそらくそれを共有しない人もいれば、共有する人もいれば、近づかない人もいるでしょう。今後の出版物でお会いしましょう。 - Welcome, Japanese archaeologists, on this occasion I present to you a situation regarding the Western and Eastern world, two sides of the same coin, be it art history, archeology, geography, among other topics, I come to expose the great imbalance that There is in regards to these two currents, having said that, make yourself comfortable and let's begin. - In the photo on my left hand we can clearly see the countries that encompass the Far Eastern currents, which is the particular topic of the publication, and on the right side we can see some Western countries, among others. I am going to use the wisest words to explain this imbalance of currents, which unfortunately, seems that the Westernists are implanting the idea of ​​the 19th century that the Western is better than the Far East, since the Orient is in Cochinchina, since it is It has him in a lower rank and that is not the case. If we ask people on the street, 90% of the people, if you asked them things about this topic, the most likely thing is that they do not know anything, because they lack ignorance, but that is not their fault, but how things have been taught by the governments of the different Western countries. - Other points that we are going to summarize in this paragraph would be the people who spread it and ferment Westernization, eradicating the orientalization of the Far East, it is normal that the people who spread things, from the Far East, do not have enough support or only from one side. - I hope you liked it, postscript I am giving my point of view, most likely there are people who do not share it, others do and others stay away, see you in future publications.

[tianshiisdead]

Japan shaves just about everything. He doesn't think more hair=more manly. He infact has a whole different idea of what is manly compared to western countries or most countries in general. He also likes flowers and floral patterns.

everything?!

[mascamaiorum]

In Praise of Shadows

Jun'ichirō Tanizaki

“...our ancestors, forced to live in dark rooms, presently came to discover beauty in shadows, ultimately to guide shadows towards beauty’s ends. [...] And yet, when we gaze into the darkness that gathers behind the crossbeam, around the flower vase, beneath the shelves, though we know perfectly well it is mere shadow, we are overcome with the feeling that in this small corner of the atmosphere there reigns complete and utter silence; that here in the darkness immutable tranquility holds sway. The “mysterious Orient” of which Westerners speak probably refers to the uncanny silence of these dark places. And even we as children would feel an inexpressible chill as we peered into the depths of an alcove to which the sunlight had never penetrated. Where lies the key to this mystery? Ultimately it is the magic of shadows. Were the shadows to be banished from its corners, the alcove would in that instant revert to mere void. This was the genius of our ancestors, that by cutting off the light from this empty space they imparted to the world of shadows that formed there a quality of mystery and depth superior to that of any wall painting or ornament. [...] Were it not for shadows, there would be no beauty. [...] Perhaps it is only a mischievous trick of light and shadow, a thing of a moment only. But even so it is enough. We can ask for nothing more.

[tariah23]

That white Zionist in Japan screaming like a wild beast at a crowd of Japanese pro Palestine protesters-

[arcsin27]

[troythecatfish]

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[nickfuckingwayne]

Photo of the day 🩸👏🏻

Featuring Jordan Oliver

[da-riya]

Sometimes I do beat myself up over not continuing to learn Russian cause most eastern european servers are from there

[doublebilled]

Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence (1983) dir. Nagisa Oshima

East Palace, West Palace (1996) dir. Zhang Yuan