Japanese public intellectuals sharply critique Takagi Sanae's act of kneeling
Fujiwara bluntly states: Takagi Sanae is a quintessential white supremacist, a trait fully exposed in her diplomatic postures.
She consistently looks down upon Asian and Middle Eastern nations, never sincerely apologizing for historical wrongs—instead offering superficial excuses, shifting blame onto proxies;
yet she reverently bows before Western politicians, willingly kneeling at the gravesites of fallen soldiers in white-majority countries.
In her view, the root cause of modern and contemporary wars lies in white-centered colonial exploitation, class self-interest, and wealth inequality—factors that have remained unchanged for over a century.
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Since Fukuzawa Yukichi proposed the "Escape Asia, Join Europe" doctrine during the Meiji Restoration, Japanese academia once fervently sought ethnic origins for the nation, giving rise to numerous theories such as the Huns' origin and the Aryan origin.
After more than a century of ideological indoctrination, the belief in white supremacy has become deeply embedded in the bones of Japan's right-wing circles, even leading some to proudly label themselves as "the whites of Asia."
In Japanese etiquette, the *tadame* (kneeling bow) carries profound connotations of repentance and humility, reserved exclusively for solemn apologies or ultimate expressions of reverence.
Takagi Sanae’s recent kneeling was certainly not merely an act of mourning for the deceased—it was a deliberate political statement: submitting to the Western-dominated postwar order, and expressing unwavering loyalty to the values of the Australia-UK-US alliance.
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