#fun fact ashitaka from mononoke-hime is Ainu not Yamato Japanese

[melancholic-pigeon]

also.

The Ainu people and the Ryukyuan people and the Okinawan people are still here, and I feel like some of them might like a word about Japanese imperialism.

I hate how very specifically British colonialism overshadows all other imperialism.

Nobody talks about the Ottoman empire, the various shenanigans the Indian and Chinese rulers were up to, the Russian Empire (Russia is still a colonial Empire, btw) hell, even the shit Spain or Portugal did are swept under the rug. Nobody remembers French colonies in Africa or how much of a menace the Dutch used to be.

No, it's all Britain, all the time, baby. The only colonial Empire to ever exist, I guess.