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If there’s anyone who gets to call Japan out for their attitudes towards the horrors that took place seventy years ago, it’s the Koreans<ref>[http://www.webcitation.org/6KsbCjElw Hankook Ilbo (Korean editorial)]</ref>, and it’s exactly because ''Kantai Collection'' is something so trivial and detached from any sort of political significance, that its problematic nature merits discussion. It’s little more than a silly browser game, yet for that precise reason it serves as a perfect example of how internalized and institutionalized public denial of Japan’s war crimes has become. |'''Aquagaze''', ''[http://theglorioblog.com/2014/05/01/the-unfortunate-implications-of-kantai-collection/ The Unfortunate Implications of Kantai Collection]'' (The Glorio Blog)}}

{{quote|"Where other cultures look back at WWII with horror, the Japanese prefer to look away. While Japan's politics around this are sometimes questionable, the people generally deal with disasters by trivializing them, joking about them and, more than anything, looking away. They don't want to forget, but nor do they want to remember - they have enough to deal with in the present, and being aware of the past is enough."|'''technololigy''', on ''Kantai Collection'', in response to the above article above, ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20150405025335/http://wrttn.in/0c540b Criticizing Critism]''}}