Japan or South Korea?

I've been told there is a mixed to negative relationship between Japan and South Korea, while America and Japan are so deep in friendship they no longer require tourist visas for either country to visit each other while the U.S. President Trump became the first world leader to meet new Emperor Naruhito. But strangely, I'm seeing more Korean content showing up in America. Adopting Korean children, K-Pop (popularized by PSY), one of the hosts of Fixer Upper, one of the owners of Heirloom Market BBQ in Atlanta, GA area, Samsung, LG, etc., etc. For Japanese ones, it's mostly sushi, American hibachi (teppanyaki), matcha/green tea, manga/anime, Japan-made video games (e.g. Nintendo, Square-Enix, Capcom, Konami, etc.), cuteness, idols, virtual people (e.g. Vocaloids, virtual YouTube stars), etc. Which do you personally prefer more?

If you ask about Korea vs. Japan on a weeb dating website, then of course most people will answer that they'd rather travel to Japan. I'd be interested in going to either. And they do have a mixed to negative relationship because Japan annexed Korea in WWII, imposed Shinto in place of other Korean religions, banned speaking/writing Korean, was generally patronizing and racist towards locals, and possibly coerced women into prostitution. Love anime, and Japan has apologized, but... yikes. There's a reason why geopolitically they are tetchy.

Hey nobody has anything good to say about the atrocities committed by the Japanese soldiers in the name of their emperor during WWII. It wasn't just Korea that suffered but the entire world fought and suffered to end the tyranny of Imperial Japan. But the problem lies with the fact that both Japanese and Korean politicians exploit even encourage this enmity between Japan and Korea to consolidate their own political power. Japanese politicians fabricate lies and try to hide/justify the sins committed by the Imperial Japan. While North Korea sympathizing leftist politicians in Korea try to divert the attention of South Korea to sins committed by Imperial Japan nearly a century ago. They even advertize and glorify the acts of Korean patriots during WWII on June 25th which commemorates the date that Little Fat Kim and his ilks invaded South Korea to unify the Korean peninsula under their communist rule. What does Japan have anything to do with that? In fact, more Korean men died during the ensuing Korean War than in WWII. Widows and war orphans were rampant. Anyone who even dared to speak out against the communist government was brutally impaled on bamboo pikes. Yet they keep touting that North Koreans and South Koreans are brothers and should reunify while trying to hide the bloody history between two Koreas and point fingers at America and Japan for their problems. And Mr.Trump's extortionist rhetoric and his defense of Little Fat Kim doesn't help either. Simply, it's an era of Three Stooges orchestrated by Mr.Moon, Mr.Abe and Mr.Trump. Suck it up. Watch anime, buy anime figures, play video games, watch K-pop, and forget about all this. If you want to pick between Japan and Korea, don't pick one over the other. Just pick both.

Technically it wasn't even in WWII that Japan attempted to invade the Korean peninsula. As far back as during the rule of Toyotomi Hideyoshi (1592) Japan has attempted to annex Korea...twice, in that same decade. 1910 was just the first time they've successfully invaded and conquered Korea. And yeah, I don't blame them for the strained relationship especially with the very shady and inhumane practices the Japanese had during the Imperial Japan era. The Japanese honestly were really feeling themselves after defeating a weakened Russia and China, they really did need to be taken down a notch. Too bad that there's still nationalists in Japan that deny any of the warcrimes and atrocities they've committed ever happened, then there was the half-assed apology that doesn't address the full scope of the legacy of Imperial Japan. There's people that are still alive that had to suffer through that, not like it's ancient history. Of course there's going to be some leftover resentment I don't really have a preference between the two countries actually though, I can speak Japanese and stuff but going to Japan actually isn't really that high on my bucket list. :u

South Korea by a long shot lmao. Can confirm because I've been to both. Japan is a great country go stay in for 1-2 years while studying at a school or just fucking around. When it comes to living there, it's totally fucking different. After the whole "utopian society" novelty wears off, many foreigners get depressed as fuck because the Japanese people are all too different and the society is too depressing and work is pure hell. There's reasons why the suicide rate there is sky high. When it comes to discrimination white people are probably rated the highest. Of course everyone is friendly when you meet them because shame culture lol, but they can talk mad shit behind the scenes (This is a huge problem in Osaka). Heard a woman whisper to her friend calling a black guy a gorilla. Never experienced any of this nor working insane fucking hours in South Korea. Td;lr Japan is xenophobic and racist as fuck Also imagine denying or not apologizing for any of the war crimes you've committed in World War 2, many of which were worse than the actual Holocaust and the death count is sometimes believed to be higher than it. *cough* Rape of Nanking and Unit 731 *cough* Oh yeah Unit 731 wasn't the only unethical human experimentation facility by Imperial Japan. There were many, many more.

Xenophobia and racism is present in both South Korea and Japan. You shouldn't expect South Korea and Japan to be like the United States or other European countries. Both countries have traditionally been homogeneous. It hasn't been until recently that foreigners started immigrating into these countries. Everybody looks the same, everybody pretty much behaves similarly, there are certain expectations and etiquette to be obeyed by the individuals in their societies. There aren't any broad distinctions like whites, blacks, Asians, hispanics or Arabs here. Either you are a foreigner or not. These countries have thousands of years of history and have been pretty much isolated from the rest of the world for millennia. Europe has very long history too but it has been relatively more diverse than either South Korea or Japan due to their geographical characteristics. So it's natural that they aren't used to seeing or interacting with foreigners, especially non East-Asians.