In response to Japanese critics’ long-standing complaints that its exhibits had focused solely on hibakusha suffering without critical wartime context, the museum planned to expand its scope to include documentation of the Nanjing massacre, Japan’s experiments with biological weapons on humans, and its seizure and sexual exploitation of women of other Asian nations as “comfort women” for the Japanese military. The proposed exhibit created a furor among conservative Japanese nationalists, who protested and made anonymous threats to museum curators and museum staff. The museum subsequently
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Holy shit. Cultures are the same the world over.
