MILITANT PATRIOTISM: The [Japanese] military is regaining its prestige - helped by a blitz of television dramas, movies and cartoons. Patriotic zeal is now a more compelling reason to enlist... Film directors, animators and TV producers have delivered a bumper crop of military-themed content, much of it with help from the Ministry of Defense. Hit shows include Girls und Panzer, a cartoon about schoolgirls fighting tank battles, and Eternal Zero, a movie about a kamikaze pilot that its director made in part to counter an image of Japanese soldiers as fanatics. WTF? Schoolgirls fighting tank battles make Japanese men want to join the military? A movie about a kamikaze pilot counters the image of Japanese soldiers as fanatics? Something is very awry and I dont know why. in.reuters/article/2014/03/14/japan-military-image-idINDEEA2D02D20140314
Posted on: Sun, 23 Mar 2014 10:26:59 +0000
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