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LiberationTshirtNotBombTshirt

the atomic bombing of japan signifies the liberation of korea from japan's imperialistic rule. there's nothing wrong with jimin wearing the shirt.T-shirt is actually not the reason. 1 or 2 years ago and for 2 sec on screen. Japan government just made a use of BTS because recently Korean court judged Korean captives during WW2 should be apologized and compensated by Japan. But Japan didn't but even planned to make innocent artist of Korea apologize to Japan reversely. It's so cruel and immature. The 2nd most victims of bomb were 90 thousand innocent Korean captives in Japan, criminal country of WW2. 50 thousand of them died then and only 40 thousands alive came back to Korea but still suffer with radiation disease now. So the bomb is also painful history of Korea, too. So it on the T-shirt as a history of Korean liberation day.

The shirt was meant to explain the Independence Day of Korea, hence they put 2 pictures on the shirt. one is a picture of the atomic bomb's mushroom cloud, and the other one is a picture of Korean people Hooraying at their independence day, August 15th of 1945. Those 2 pictures each symbolize the defeat of the Japanese Empire and the following Independence of Korea, and both are very commonly shown in the history textbook. Japanese haters claim that those pictures are meant to mock at the atomic bomb victims, which is distorting the truth. The picture of the cloud simply represents the end of the war. How can that be read as mocking innocent victims? Cooking up the story with the pictures without any harmful intention is very despicable. The problem is with the people who are trying so hard to mislead it as Korean people celebrating' the 'atomic bomb victims' when it's NOT. How can they drag on the 'innocent victim' of theirs to distort the truth? That's a shame. The bomb ended the war, it's undeniable. It brought numerous people freedom who were under the oppression of war criminals. Celebrating their independence cannot be separated from the end of the war. It's sad that civilians including 70,000 KOREAN (20,000 for Hiroshima)people were sacrificed from the atomic bomb, but that's a different story. (btw Japanese government excluded Korean bomb survivors from the atomic bomb survivor relief law with the reason that Korean survivors don't reside in Japan, even though many of the victims were bombed while working as the forced laborer for the munition factories in Nagasaki and Hiroshima.) Why don't Japanese think about why they get bombed? Did it fall from the sky out of sudden? without any reason? Why did the bomb choose to be dropped there? To END the war THEY broke out. Personally, It was very disappointing to see the Japanese people's reaction from the bomb picture, they directly recall their victims only, not the historical context of the situation Koreans are NOT fond of mocking innocent bomb victims in any degree since THEY were the victims during the war period. if BTS would have worn the shirt with that ill intention, Korean would be the first one to leave them.

[The real reason why JPN TV cancelled BTS' appearance]  

About this Asahi TV's BTS cancellation, it was already detected at the end of last October when the Korean Supreme Court made a ruling that Japanese war crime companies have to pay out damages to the Koreans who were forcefully drafted into the labor in Japan. In the Japanese newspaper, an article called "Block the Korean wave" emerged that day. And Japanese extreme-rights targeted BTS, making a issue of Jimin wearing a fan gifted LIBERATION T-shirt a year ago and RM's tweet "No future for the people who forgot history" made on Korea's Liberation day. Asahi TV, which has been under constant attack throughout the current Abe administration which is linked to the Japanese extreme right, maybe had to read the anti-Korea atmosphere now in Japan. In the backdrop of this Japanese extreme right-wing's continuous "anti-Korea protests", there is Japanese government's tacit support who had intentionally erased history of invasion throughout the past. Their recent Self-Defense Rearmament & Falsification in History Textbook clearly shows how they see their past history. There's no self-reflection sensed.

There are so many 9/11 terrorist monument in the United States but Muslims do not call it anti- Muslim. There is also Holocaust monument in European countries but Germans do not call it anti-Germans. In some Asian countries, including Korea, there are monuments to honour people who have been victimized by Japanese military crimes, but Japan calls them anti- Japanese. Even if Americans celebrate American Independence Day, British people do not call it anti-English. Even it Mexico celebrates Independence Day, the Spanish do not call it anti-Spain. When the Koreans celebrate thei independence, the Japanese call it anti- Japanese. Why?