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Isn't Japan extremely socially conservative?
Some Asian countries also have a weird thing for Hitler.
https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/southeast-asia-s-weird-fascination-hitler
Thanks for sharing. Also wtf.
In many ways yes. Japan has its own brand of racial superiority which is why I just found it a bit weird they're going for nazi shit. It could also just be that they heard and liked a song, but I kinda doubt that this is the case.
Japan is conservative in the sense that anyone that isn't Japanese can go get fucked. How many Japanese neo-nazis are also multilingual to understand the lyrics? This seems less like nazis in Japan and just people who found music they didn't hate.
I mean if someone in Japan wanted to look towards their right-leaning history, the Japanese Empire isn't too far away, and it aligned with Hitler.
Japan literally has rising fascist movements that want to bring back Imperial Japan, I think it's fair to say that they know what they're listening to.