>>728867>it’s crazy how reactionaries are now praising japan when a couple years or decades ago, they were villainizing japanEh, I would disagree. Beyond a few evangelical retarded boomers Japan has always been praised by conservatives ever since it essentially became a US client state in after WW2. I mean Japans reputation was almost immediately sanitized by the US when the war ended because they needed a model capitalist, Asian state they could point to as "one of the good ones" to try and push their ideology throughout the rest of Asia, even during Japans economic dominance during the 1980's use rarely had actual, massive backlash against Japan or Japanese culture by conservatives beyond said retarded evangelicals I mentioned. Even before anime you had shit like Samurai, Ninjas, etc. being popularized. Even on the internet you still had Japan being sucked off and praised by reactionaries on imageboards, forums and usenet groups and the like.