Author's Note: Today marks the 86th Anniversary of the Nanjing Massacre. To commemorate the anniversary of this tragedy, here's a comic about why Japan isn't serious about preserving the past when it comes to yesteryear's video games and evidence of Japan's war crimes. Also, this comic was created using the Screaming Cagney Carnation meme from Cuphead.
While software piracy is morally wrong, it is, however, one of the few methods of preserving video games that could eventually be lost forever to the sands of time. But in Japan, software piracy is considered an act of cyber-terrorism. Maybe this could explain all of the cease and desists issued against people who show their love for Nintendo through fan games and music preservation.
Classifying software piracy as an act of terrorism, however, has got nothing compared to the far-right going ballistic over the truth about Japan's war crimes being revealed. While asking most Japanese people about the destruction of war crimes evidence will leave them puzzled, the far-right, however, will get upset over the truth about the destruction of documents related to Japanese war crimes. In fact, it has always been the far-right that has been intimidating anyone who exposes the truth about the war crimes that Japan committed during World War 2. No wonder reparations from Japan are not coming to all the countries that have suffered under their tyranny. Even Russia paid reparation debts to South Korea in T-80 tanks and BMP-3 armoured fighting vehicles shortly after the end of the Cold War. Maybe Japan should pay reparations in video game consoles that performed poorly in the Japanese market such as Atari and Microsoft consoles to some of the countries that were oppressed by them. Perhaps this will be how Japan can reconcile with some of the countries that they have wronged during World War 2...
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