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Barbenheimer Memes Provoke Angry Backlash in Japan (www.hollywoodreporter.com)
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Warner Bros. Japan apologizes after the U.S. Twitter account for the movie promotes posts that appear to make light of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

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    The nukes were a mass genocide.

    Uhhh no? They were a targeted show of force in order to end the war because Japan was never going to surrender otherwise. "Genocide" implies America was trying to erase the Japanese people entirely.

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