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Japanese Empire's Opposition to the White Supremacy
DIR By: antihellenistic
Date: July 17, 2024, 10:26 am
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> Over the course of the 1930s, Japan began exercising military
might — even in violation of international orders through the
League of Nations — as it invaded China and the Korean
Peninsula. By the time of the second Sino-Japanese War in 1937,
many Westerners had developed strong anti-Japanese sentiments.
Yet African American sentiments sometimes varied from the
mainstream, and organizations like the Pacific Movement of the
Eastern World (PMEW) promised equality and land distribution
under Japanese rule. Horne details how African Americans,
frustrated with the Jim Crow laws of the 1930s and 1940s United
States, hoped for liberation from white supremacy with the
arrival of the Japanese Imperial Army, despite the Army’s brutal
treatment of citizens of occupied countries.
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Source :
Gerald Horne ’70 Details Afro-Asian Solidarity During WWII.
(2018, February 16). Princeton Alumni Weekly.
HTML https://paw.princeton.edu/article/gerald-horne-70-details-afro-asian-solidarity-during-wwii
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> The Pacific Movement of the Eastern World (PMEW) was a 1930s
North American based pro-Japanese movement of African Americans
which promoted the idea that Japan was the champion of all
non-white peoples.
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> The Japanese ultra-nationalist Black Dragon Society was an
influence upon the PMEW. The Black Dragon Society was a
paramilitary organization, with close ties to Japan, which
viewed the United States as Japan's enemy in World War II. The
organization was frequently taken advantage of by one of its
founders, Ashima Takis, who ultimately was arrested for
embezzling funds from the group
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Source :
Wikipedia contributors. (2024, April 14). Pacific Movement of
the Eastern World. In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia.
Retrieved 15:24, July 17, 2024, from
HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pacific_Movement_of_the_Eastern_World&oldid=1218895362
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> It would have reflected the policy of the imperial Japanese
government. Japan saw itself as a “ Champion of the Darker Races
“ then. During the Treaty of Versailles at the end of World War
1, Japan suggested legislation to end racial discrimination
which the League of Nations rejected. In the 1930s, the Japanese
government sent a retired major named Satokata Takahashi to the
United States to get the support of African Americans. He was a
member of the Black Dragon Society, a group committed to
advancing Japan's imperial goals in Asia. In Detroit, Takahashi
met a Black woman named Pearl Sherrod , a Pan Africanist who was
a member of the Allah Temple of Islam ( yes the Nation of Islam
led by Elijah Muhammad. ) Sherrod was drawn by Takahashi's
progressive views about African Americans and together they
formed an organization called The Development of Our Own , which
Fard Muhammad endorsed. They later got married. Takahashi spoke
before several Black nationalist organizations, convincing them
to advocate an Afro-Asian alliance. He told them the imperial
Japanese army would help Black people in America fight racism.
When the FBI discovered Takahashi's mission, he was arrested and
deported.
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Source :
What was the imperial Japanese army’s policy towards black
people? (2019). Quora.
HTML https://www.quora.com/What-was-the-imperial-Japanese-armys-policy-towards-black-people
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Re: Japanese Empire's Opposition to the White Supremacy
DIR By: Mujahid
Date: July 17, 2024, 5:01 pm
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It is a shame they had to be so cruel in the East as a lot of
the ideology they preached sounded amazing.
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Re: Japanese Empire's Opposition to the White Supremacy
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: July 17, 2024, 6:07 pm
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The cruel ones were the Westernized ones (who hence looked down
on other "non-whites" for being less Westernized than
themselves):
HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/colonial-era/shimabara-rebellion-the-christian-revolt-that-isolated-medieval-japan-2645/msg13827/#msg13827
Basically, there were two camps in Japan:
HTML https://authenticamericandream.blogspot.com/2018/03/countering-pacific-pivot.html
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> Admittedly, there continued to exist among the Japanese the
old pro-Western camp who merely desired for a nominal
Co-Prosperity Sphere to end up as a Japanese colonial empire
such that Japan could be recognized as a fellow Western power.
However, there also existed among the Japanese a sincere
anti-Western camp who wished for Japan to turn over a new leaf
and leave the Western-inspired days of the 19th century behind.
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> Japan did not win WWII, and therefore the two camps never
reached the stage when they would have clashed. But why do
Western historians neglect to draw attention to the latter camp,
while giving so much attention to the former? The reason is
simple: fear of an anti-Western alliance re-forming in the
Sinosphere.
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Re: Japanese Empire's Opposition to the White Supremacy
DIR By: rp
Date: November 4, 2024, 5:39 pm
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I like this paragraph from JJ's blog post:
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> To make unambiguous how deeply rooted these problems are, even
should Western Civilization—including “whiteness”—ever disappear
from Europe, Western Civilization itself will not necessarily
die so long as China, India, and others reiterate Japan’s
mistake, and we should not underestimate their proclivity to do
so. Many Americans believe that China only began Westernizing
after it gave up on communism. In fact, Maoists were pro-Western
on many issues (especially education) except economics and
democracy; indeed, Mao Zedong had to at first present communism
itself to the masses as an “alternative form of Western
government” (Marx being an apparent ‘Westerner’) because Western
governmental forms were all that the masses were interested in
during the early 20th century. Sun Yatsen was even more
pro-Western, particularly pro-democracy. Even back in the Qing
Dynasty there was enthusiasm towards Western education along
with ideas of establishing constitutional monarchy.
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