Current Events > Nazi-themed bar with hosts dressed as SS guards in Japan sparks outrage

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Lebronwon
10/15/21 4:08:26 PM
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https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/nazi-themed-bar-sparks-fury-25220892

A Nazi-themed bar has sparked fury as hosts dressed as SS guards and served swastika-branded champagne. The "Unfair Club" opened last Sunday in Osaka, Japan using young men as hosts to serve customers. They wore German military uniforms that are replicas of those from World War 2 with the Nazi symbol on their armbands. Japan fought alongside the Germans during the war. Bosses thought the "cosplay" would be popular with its target customers - women who want to be served by male hosts. The plans backfired as many expressed their fury over the offensive idea causing the bar the shut down by Tuesday, The Jerusalem Post reported.

The parent company, Host x Host issued a statement apologising for their "lack of knowledge and awareness". However, this week many blasted the owners saying the idea was "ignorant" and "disgusting". A spokesman for the Simon Wiesenthal Center, a Jewish human rights organisation, said: "Japanese women are supposed to be attracted to men dressed up as SS Nazi murderers? "This is a vile desecration of the memory of six million Jews, Anne Frank and victims of the Nazi Holocaust. Where is Japanese outrage?" The Campaign Against Antisemitism, a UK antisemitism watchdog, tweeted: "This is disgusting." Others took to Twitter to share their frustration. One wrote: "This is what the inside of the Nazi host club looks like. Ignorance and stupidity at its finest." Another added: "Im shocked I tell you, Japan is the last place I expect this from! They would never fetishize the Nazi. "When you dont purge the fascist elements then expect those elements to be passed down to newer generations." This isn't the first time Japanese firms and groups have come under fire for using Nazi imagery as "cosplay". In 2017, the Morishita Group hosted a Nazi-themed party for its employees, complete with Nazi flags, German news outlet Deutsche Welles reported in 2020. And in 2016, a J-Pop group under Sony's label known as Keyakizaka46 dressed as SS soldiers for a Halloween party.





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UnholyMudcrab
10/15/21 4:09:12 PM
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KhlavicLanguage
10/15/21 4:13:23 PM
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completely unsurprising

japan is awful with this shit and if it ever improves it will be very slowly
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C_Pain
10/15/21 4:13:45 PM
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I'm Jewish so I can say who gives a shit? They're not killing people. What does it matter?

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Ilishe
10/15/21 4:13:57 PM
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Japan

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Joeydollaz
10/15/21 4:14:06 PM
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Anime is real

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Axiom
10/15/21 4:14:08 PM
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Lebronwon posted...
"Im shocked I tell you, Japan is the last place I expect this from! They would never fetishize the Nazi.
Sure but only because they have a head in the sand policy when it comes to their own fucked up past and like to pretend none of it ever happened
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Ilishe
10/15/21 4:15:19 PM
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C_Pain posted...
I'm Jewish so I can say who gives a shit? They're not killing people. What does it matter?

You don't get to be Extra Privileged when it comes anti Nazi outrage just for being Jewish.

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monkmith
10/15/21 4:16:24 PM
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Axiom posted...
Sure but only because they have a head in the sand policy when it comes to their own fucked up past and like to pretend none of it ever happened
this is the internet, only country we're supposed to shit on for their past faults is the US!

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EmbraceOfDeath
10/15/21 4:17:17 PM
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This was stupid and a bad idea and all, but the people whose opinions are cited in the article about it can shut the hell up. If they're not even living in Japan, then their opinion on some single bar in Japan is worthless.

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unnamedsoldier
10/15/21 4:17:40 PM
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Asia by and large doesn't really care about the Nazis the way the west does
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masterpug53
10/15/21 4:17:48 PM
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Y'know, there's a non-zero chance this is all a Producers-caliber investment scam...

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UnfairRepresent
10/15/21 4:18:48 PM
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EmbraceOfDeath posted...
This was stupid and a bad idea and all, but the people whose opinions are cited in the article about it can shut the hell up. If they're not even living in Japan, then their opinion on some single bar in Japan is worthless.
This is dumb logic. You're allowed to have opinions on stuff dude.

And if anything calling out horrible things that happen elsewhere is something people really should do no matter where they live.

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UnholyMudcrab
10/15/21 4:19:11 PM
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masterpug53 posted...
Y'know, there's a non-zero chance this is all a Producers-caliber investment scam...

Don't be stupid, be a star. Come drink at the Nazi bar!
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UnfairRepresent
10/15/21 4:20:41 PM
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Axiom posted...
Sure but only because they have a head in the sand policy when it comes to their own fucked up past and like to pretend none of it ever happened
The thing that springs to mind for me is that DBZ movie where hell invades Earth and Hitler for some reason drives around Japan in a tank blowing up buildings.

And it's like

  1. Why is Hitler driving a tank?
  2. Why is Hitler attacking Japan?
They just didn't care lol

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C_Pain
10/15/21 4:21:21 PM
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Ilishe posted...
You don't get to be Extra Privileged when it comes anti Nazi outrage just for being Jewish.
Actually that's how social justice works. It's my lived experience.

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Ilishe
10/15/21 4:31:26 PM
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C_Pain posted...
Actually that's how social justice works. It's my lived experience.

What about the lived experience of every non Jew who was killed, wounded or had their life destroyed by the Nazi war machine and their allies?

Or do you think their bullets and bombs only hurt Jews?

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C_Pain
10/15/21 5:04:22 PM
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Ilishe posted...
What about the lived experience of every non Jew who was killed, wounded or had their life destroyed by the Nazi war machine and their allies?

Or do you think their bullets and bombs only hurt Jews?
OK but this bar isn't doing that

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skermac
10/15/21 5:05:15 PM
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Banish them

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Xethuminra
10/15/21 5:06:29 PM
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Not sure what happened here. This is an idea that could work and it is an idea that could work in Japan, but you would need to be very careful and I would NOT debut the goddamn bar as a Nazi-themed bar in any capacity.
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ModLogic
10/15/21 5:09:02 PM
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Lebronwon posted...
Japan is the last place I expect this from!
yes didnt expect this from the country where their war criminals weren't put on trial but revered as heroes.

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PatrickMahomes
10/15/21 5:09:14 PM
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C_Pain posted...
OK but this bar isn't doing that
I'm Jewish too and the dude you're talking to sounds like one of those people who tries to tell you that if you're not offended by something, you're a bigot or something.

I laugh at myself all the damn time, including at some extremely off-color jokes that would most certainly result in a ban from here if uttered.

People need to relax. I'm not saying I would patronize this business, but I'm not going out of my way to travel to another country with different cultures and customs and demand they be shut down.

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Tmaster148
10/15/21 5:10:00 PM
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Imagine being Jewish and defending Nazism.

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BloodMoon7
10/15/21 5:10:55 PM
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>_>

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uwnim
10/15/21 5:11:22 PM
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Since it actually shut down Im assuming it wasnt something the Japanese people liked and it wasnt just people who dont even live there complaining about this.

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Funkydog
10/15/21 5:11:36 PM
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PatrickMahomes posted...

I'm Jewish too and the dude you're talking to sounds like one of those people who tries to tell you that if you're not offended by something, you're a bigot or something.

I laugh at myself all the damn time, including at some extremely off-color jokes that would most certainly result in a ban from here if uttered.

People need to relax. I'm not saying I would patronize this business, but I'm not going out of my way to travel to another country with different cultures and customs and demand they be shut down.

Glorifying the fucking Nazi's isn't a "different culture" ffs, it's just deplorable. Japan isn't a country that was uninvolved in WW2, so is literally no reason for them not to know of the monstrosity they represent.
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Tyranthraxus
10/15/21 5:12:51 PM
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Tmaster148 posted...
Imagine being Jewish and defending Nazism.

Let's up the ante.

Imagine being the literal Jewish PM of Israel and straight up defending Hitler himself.

Oh wait

https://www.reuters.com/article/israel-netanyahu-hitler-idUSL8N12L23U20151021

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cjs28
10/15/21 5:13:23 PM
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Oh Japan. You so silly

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Axiom
10/15/21 5:13:43 PM
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uwnim posted...
Since it actually shut down Im assuming it wasnt something the Japanese people liked and it wasnt just people who dont even live there complaining about this.
It's a host bar so at least 99% of them were japanese citizens. The world probably didn't even know it existed before the women who went there complained which tells you how bad it was
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Eab1990
10/15/21 5:14:54 PM
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This isn't even the first time someone has fetishized the SS uniform. Pangya did it 10+ years ago.

They're not "promoting Nazism", they're saying their outfits were bitchin'.

I'm personally not a fan, but whatever, they're not hurting anyone.

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OniLink5000
10/15/21 5:15:04 PM
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well, they were allies.

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Xethuminra
10/15/21 5:15:33 PM
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What if they were black Nazis?
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ModLogic
10/15/21 5:16:51 PM
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C_Pain
10/15/21 7:03:38 PM
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Tmaster148 posted...
Imagine being Jewish and defending Nazism.
How is it nazism? Are they espousing the ideology of them inside the bar? I feel like it's literally just costumes and that's the extent.

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spikethedevil
10/15/21 7:09:36 PM
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Background_Guy
10/15/21 7:10:31 PM
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EmbraceOfDeath posted...
This was stupid and a bad idea and all, but the people whose opinions are cited in the article about it can shut the hell up. If they're not even living in Japan, then their opinion on some single bar in Japan is worthless.
So if we Americans had a restaurant where the waitresses dressed up as Enola Gay and served Hiroshumai and Nagasake, you'd approve of that?
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gna647
10/15/21 7:12:10 PM
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Thought itd be hot Japanese girls in skimpy SS uniforms so Im a bit disappointed

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Xethuminra
10/15/21 7:12:56 PM
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gna647 posted...
Thought itd be hot Japanese girls in skimpy SS uniforms so Im a bit disappointed
What were they thinking?
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YugiNoob
10/15/21 7:15:38 PM
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Background_Guy
10/15/21 7:16:57 PM
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It is weird how people often treat the Japanese like they're children who can't understand their own actions.
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cjs28
10/15/21 8:04:40 PM
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YugiNoob posted...
lol

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uwnim
10/15/21 8:36:41 PM
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YugiNoob posted...
Lol, thats so close to being right. While sure, we might say something like now thats a fucking sale wed also say stuff like what a fucking rip-off

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ShineboxPhil
10/15/21 8:41:18 PM
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dj1200
10/15/21 8:42:34 PM
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C_Pain posted...
I'm Jewish so I can say who gives a shit? They're not killing people. What does it matter?
The Nazis killed far more than just Jews.

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cjs28
10/15/21 8:42:44 PM
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ShineboxPhil posted...
Suddenly this makes a lot of sense
Glorious Nipponland

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ModLogic
10/15/21 8:44:17 PM
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Background_Guy posted...
It is weird how people often treat the Japanese like they're children who can't understand their own actions.
weebism really needs to be analyzed and studied.

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SSJ2GrimReaper
10/15/21 8:45:09 PM
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YugiNoob posted...
20% off isn't that good tbh

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Sayoria
10/15/21 8:47:42 PM
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I totally thought this was gonna be a Manji Kanji thing ..... which lots mistake for a swastika, which it is not.

This was actually unexpected.

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