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In related corporate censorship, the Top Gun remake altered the physical leather jacket worn by Tom Cruise to remove the flags of Taiwan and Japan.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/top-gun-...

>>drak0n+(OP)
Lol why Japan

>>TchoBe+vu
They are not really friends since https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Sino-Japanese_War

>>TchoBe+vu
Basically everyone else in Asia hates their guts due to their conduct in WWII.

>>drak0n+(OP)
This is the real powerful actual vector.

Hollywood flicks and bad 80s pop/rock were (arguably) a genuinely massive part of the Soviet Union's decline. Those things make culture.

>>BadOak+Qx
Yeah but why are they censoring any mention of the country. Is Japan's existence controversial or something.

>>ufmace+5z
That's really not true. Taiwan, for example, has widespread pro-Japanese sentiment. Indonesia, Thailand, the Philippines, and Vietnam also have warm relations with Japan.

On the other hand, Mainland China and both North and South Korea continue to have a dominant anti-Japanese sentiment.

A cynical observer might suggest that the ability of a nation's public to forgive past grievances correlates closely with how much benefit the government sees in maintaining that hostile sentiment.

>>TchoBe+5K
It appears that countries like China would like to be able to decide that.

>>jbay80+dR
> both North and South Korea continue to have a dominant anti-Japanese sentiment

I've learned it's extremely difficult to find Samsung products on the shelves in Japan. The conglomerates in East Asian are intertwined with political influence.

>>jbay80+dR
What’s the benefit for South Korea?

>>dwight+aA1
They have territorial disputes unlike other Asian nations who only had WWII compensation dispute.