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Japanese Empire's Opposition to the White Supremacy
By: antihellenistic Date: July 17, 2024, 10:26 am
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[quote]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.[/quote]
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
‌[quote]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.
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[/quote]
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
[quote]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.[/quote]
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
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
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
[quote]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.
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.[/quote]
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Re: Japanese Empire's Opposition to the White Supremacy
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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