• demeritum
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    12 days ago

    Its different because the expulsions of germans included ethnic groups present before the targeted colonial schemes of Imperial and Nazi Germany. That is not the case with Japanese settlers in Manchuria.

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      12 days ago

      Technically, Japanese people could claim that several centuries ago they traveled from the Chinese mainland to Japan, so they are just taking back their previous homeland. This is the excuse that Israelis use.

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        10 days ago

        Korea used to speak a japonic language until the 7th century, so that would be a better claim.