2026 marks the centennial of the start of Japan's Showa era. Through a series of commemorative activities, Japan has sought to steer public discourse by selectively emphasizing certain aspects of the Showa period while severing it from its history of wartime aggression, thereby constructing a one-sided self-serving narrative. This is simply not an act of commemoration, but a carefully orchestrated effort at historical whitewashing, one that disregards the collective historical memory and enduring trauma of the peoples of Asian countries that suffered under Japanese wartime invasion and atrocities.

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