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Anti-Japan War Online
by Ian Bogost August 25, 2005

According to Interfax China, a Chinese online gaming company called PowerNet is creating Anti-Japan War Online, about the Japanese invasion of China during WWII. Players can only play as Chinese in the game. Here's what the article says about it:

"The game will allow players, especially younger players, to learn from history. They will get a patriotic feeling when fighting invaders to safeguard their motherland," a PowerNet Project Manager, surnamed Liu, told Interfax.

What's more, it sounds like this is the start of something bigger. The China Communist Youth League (CCYL), who cooperated in the development of Anti-Japan War Online, foreshadows more games with similar themes:

The CCLY said in statement that few games on the Chinese market today generate a "national spirit" that can educate young players. As a result, the CCYL will actively partner with online gaming companies to jointly develop "patriotic" online games.

(via Joi Ito)

Comments (4)
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I think this game is shit...I mean why the fuk would anyone want to start killing ppl who come to this country and make a living here...all those fukin white boy kids who play these stupid retarded fukin games can suck it...cause they have no real balls nor do they have lives....they are just a bunch of fukin retarded cock suckers who go around trying to kill ppl who they know can overpower them....a bunch of fukin pussies!!! can handle their fukin business face to face! I hate that shit.....I wish that a fukin little pussy who plays this game would get in my face and try to shoot me... then we will see who the fuk ends up standing strong....Fukin pussies....If you dont fukin like ppl from mexico then quit fukin playing games where you are killing them and get off your asses and try and do something about it!! quit being such fukin faggots!!

Overlooking the fact that this game is going to be propaganda through and through, it will probably make the point that has needed to be made for years now: the Japanese in WWII made the Germans look like Jehova's Witnesses; an annoyance at worst.

The Rape of Nanjking was one of the most savage, truly INHUMAN acts of arbitrary violence ever committed. Children were flayed on spears and hung in the air, mothers raped, and the father killed last so he could watch it all.

The Holocaust was anything but a picnic, but the things the Japanese did to the Chinese in the war---and this is only the very tip of the iceberg---outdid anything Hitler or his little "scientists" could have dreamed up.

jap, are white cock socker, motherf*kerz

and

"honorary white" boyz,

and they know it.