Something tells me you don’t quite understand reservations…

But I’d like to point out that Japanese know,for instance, that Jews were massacred, black people have been discriminated but it is the meaning of the symbolic forms and prejudices western people are trying to suppress that the Japanese don’t know.

Few Japanese link black people with monkey,　fried chicken,etc. a few Japanese might wear Nazi uniforms for aesthetic reason, a few Japanese might paint their face black to impersonate black people, but they don’t understand the messages the symbolic forms send in another countries.

And I am not sure if the symbols without evil message is evil just because the symbols are associated with malice message in another culture.
And I am not sure if it is necessary or desirable for the Japanese people to import prejudices and ideologies, albeit negatively, in order to suppress the symbolic forms the Japanese people happen to manifest without malice intention.
I think this is a difficult problem.
It seems to me in some cases it is not Japan but those local societies with prejudices and evil practice that should do something to eliminate them,

BTW I didn’t know right-wing nationalists have their own uniforms

Maybe here the only thing that really shocks me here is the general ignorance (should I use the word “disdain” ?) of the population for what’s happening – or happened – in the rest of the world. Yeah, I know, 島国だから… Well, if Japan still want a permanent seat at the UN, they should definitely start to work on these…

But to put jpntaxxpee’s comment into perspective, Hitler may not be universally and automatically synonymous with “evil” to the degree that it is in normal Western discourse, mostly due to the Holocaust not being emphasized in history lessons in Japanese schools. I’m sure it’s lodged in a corner of a Japanese modern history textbook somewhere, as opposed to being a huge deal in American schools as I remember it.

Then without the Holocaust overshadowing everything, the impression that one is left with are the images of the fellow Axis power’s German War Machine making America and her allies run for one’s money and Hitler being the charismatic leader of them that took on the same adversary, America.

Anti-semitism is rare in Japan, but so are Jews to immortalize the memory of the Holocaust.

I spoke with Axis History readers about shoulder boarder, ranks and collar tabs.

Readers say left collar tabs is SS-Sturmbannführer or (rank of) Major. Right collar tabs is SS mark since based on uniform.

http://www.axishistory.com/fileadmin/user_upload/c/collar-ss-ill-sturmbannfuhrer.jpg

Shoulder boarder on both shoulders is SS-Sturmbannführer.

http://www.axishistory.com/fileadmin/user_upload/s/shoulder-wss-ill-sturmbannf.jpg

http://www.axishistory.com/fileadmin/user_upload/s/shoulder-wss-sturmbannf-feldgendarmerie.jpg

Two Uniforms is belong to…
1) Waffen-SS SS-Sturmbannführer Black Uniform (Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler) without SS-Kampfbinde

2) Allgemeine-SS with SS Arm Band

SS-Kampfbinde mean SS Arm Band
http://www.axishistory.com/fileadmin/user_upload/s/ss-brassard.jpg

Visit to http://www.axishistory.com/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzimIMdARCI&feature=PlayList&p=6B17D856BC9CD004

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Sadly, even cats are not immune from the lure of Nazi fashions:

http://www.catsthatlooklikehitler.com/cgi-bin/seigboard.pl?30

lol.. what should i say..

http://www.spiegel.de/img/0,1020,425524,00.jpg

the thing what did HJ popular were gratis summer camps wiht heavy politicaly, social and millitary “education” and new social position wich youth used without to care about money and where they came from. later all youth organisations were forced to be under command of HJ.

I am even more surprised that this hasn’t reignited the Brockenman post from a while back. Is Kinnikuman to blame for this new wave of Nazi fashion?

But Eric (above) makes an interesting point: Mein Kampf is just about the crappiest writing imaginable — all sorts of meanderings and non sequiturs. The only way to make it halfway interesting is to put it in manga form. And the chic of the uniforms will no doubt attract a lot of kids.

God.

I would like to read the English translation of Mein Kampf. I made a half-hearted stab at it years ago, but put it down almost immediately–it’s no accident that Hitler is remembered as an evil genius and mass-murderer rather than a writer.

One thing I do know about Mein Kampf is that it does not promote the idea of the “big lie.” In fact, rather promoting the idea of the big lie, Hitler disparagingly attributes its use to the Jews.

If written in more detail about that here: Famous Misquotes.

If you’re going to review it, you might want to check out the latest translation of original that came out recently.

It’s an interesting idea – kind of reminds me of the Beginners Documentary Comic Books series. (Heidegger for Beginners was quite good). Frankly, there was a time I would have sold my soul for a manga version of das Kapital.

Much to my shame, I’ve not even gotten ahold of Osamu’s Adolf. I’ll make a point of trying to find it tomorrow.

They may be fashionable, but they served a very creepy purpose.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Socialist_Japanese_Workers_and_Welfare_Party

売れる「わが闘争」漫画版　苦言も「歴史資料」の声も

2009年9月6日（朝日）

海外メディアも注目し、昨年末以来、英ＢＢＣや米ＣＮＮなどが報道した。フィナンシャル・タイムズ・ドイツ版で２月に記事を書いた東アジア特派員、マーティン・コリングさんは「漫画化はリスクはあるが、新しい発想。多くの人が手に取り、批判的に検証することは意義がある」と一定の評価をする。

　ただ、ネット上などでは「出版は無神経」「ネオナチを喜ばす」「有害図書扱いはかえって魅力を生む」といった賛否の議論も起きている。

ナチズムをめぐる欧州と日本と意識の隔たりを指摘する声もある。バイエルン州駐日代表部の尾畑敏夫代表は、仕事で現地に１３年暮らした。「ドイツでは６０年たっても論争になる敏感な問題。漫画という媒体の位置付けの違いも含め、議論を尽くして出版したのだろうか……」

　一方で出版禁止に疑問を投げる専門家もいる。全体主義を研究するドレスデン工科大学のクレメンス・フォルンハルツ教授は「自由社会に禁書はあるべきではない。今、『わが闘争』に人を引きつける魅力はない。むしろ、社会にとって重要な歴史資料だ」と話す。

http://www.asahi.com/national/update/0902/TKY200909020105_01.html

there is concern and criticism from vocal parties that despite the lack of a ban, the Japanese public is not sufficiently educated in school about the horrors of the past.

There is concern in almost any nation that its people are not sufficiently educated in school about the horror of the past.
Yes, people should know the dark side of national history too.

As long as Nazi is concerned, I don’t think the Japanese have interest in forming a nao-Nazi organization; though, I think they should know that how swastikas and such will be received by western people.
I’d rather be concerned about the rise of neo-Nazi organizations in Europe despite its ban and in the U.S. despite the history education on Nazi at school.