In first, Japan to send ‘combat’ troops to major military drills in Philippines

OOOh money, thats the punch line, duh, please excuse me while i excuse the war crimes and just f k m s - good this life, is such a f****** joke. Ty god, your such a comedian, and btw i hate you - drum roll ba rum bump f*** you

It's become a meme in the truest sense of the word, in that you can't ignore it because it's deep within the cultural zeitgeist. A lot of it has to do with the fact that...lots of people are poor here due to corruption, overpopulation, and poor wages. Take your pick. A fastfood burger is considered a luxury for many families, for instance, but people still vote for fuckwads like a dictator's son, and a murderous piece of shit who's now being tried in the Hague. Rampant sex tourism with middle aged losers coming over to find exotic flings and wives is a common site around here, and a lot of people see it as their only way to a comfortable life. Ironic for one of the only Catholic countries in Asia. But here's a bonus meme. All these losers who think they're caucasian superman to the locals, tend to go for young...how do I put this... 'ugly' women. Like, most locals would be scratching their heads, but I guess if you're a sexpat you'd already be pretty fucked in the head.

I’m sure the women respect themselves, but it wouldn’t appear they’d have much choice in the matter which is what makes this all pretty dark.

I’m aware, that’s kind of what I’m getting at, that it’s not very funny at all what they are continuing to do to these women

I think only men find it funny

There is a lot of Phil-Ch mix ("tsinoys") in PH. I think the general hatred is towards mainland CH. Japan is ok, there's not a lot of them in PH ... SK culture is idolized in PH and there's a lot of SK studying in PH. They said it is cheaper to study in PH than in SK and also they can develop their English in PH. Most of the school subjects in PH are taught in English. I think, in terms of actual general populace, they are all favourable. Online discussions, FB, TikTok etc ... is a bit different. This is just my observation.

Korean consider themselves as the superior Asians,they look down on South and Southeast Asians and hostile against Japanese and Chinese.

If your “atonement” is infinite, perpetual guilt for all future Japanese generations, then you can see why they might hesitate at that proposition

I mean they did get two nukes dropped on them.

I've said this many times, but it's not really accurate to say that Japan "has never atoned for their WW2 crimes against ". Fact is that, they have publicly apologized and paid reparations to many countries, those you named included - and those countries, in turn, accepted the reparations and the apologies when Japan did it. Now, you won't be wrong to say that Japan clearly wants to just ignore and pretend their war crimes either weren't that serious or outright never happened, and that makes their attempts to atone for their crimes less... sincere (for the lack of a better word) than Germany. That much is true as well, but it doesn't change the fact that they still did apologize and paid for what they did and countries accepted their money. To some countries, that was enough to move on. To some other, that wasn't. It just happened that Phillipines seems to be one of the countries belong to the former, and so is mine (Singapore). They aren't really the only or even the minority either, as a few years ago there was that [survey from PewResearchCenter](https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2015/09/02/how-asia-pacific-publics-see-each-other-and-their-national-leaders/) showed that most of Asia Pacific countries view Japan very favorably. If I might add, many countries never apologized or paid reparations for their actions in war either. For example, neither the US nor Korea has officially apologized or paid war reparations to Vietnam and still the latter has been pretty friendly towards both. Each country to its own, but countries' relationships would've been much rockier if all countries require others to atone sincerely.

Japan pays more in reparations to victimized countries as a percentage of its GDP than Germany does.

China has taken Tibet and Hunan with force. It's only a Western thing because only the West had the capability. China is trying to build up that capability.

Do you expect Japanese to tell US to f*** off? Well, they're smarter than you are. Instead they're gonna prepare for the scenario where they can't rely on US. That's the entire reason this is a news story.