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That's what the greivance degenrated into IOTL; a quick rating fix for down-on-luck politicians in East Asia wanting to get out of jam, provide voters' distractions or for no-hopers to try to launch the campaign. Even cottage industry of using this to extort concessions from Japan has sprung up.

What could happen in the past that make this angle stop being a quick political hay in Taiwan, South Korea and Mainland China? So much so that whoever brought this up in ATL got laugh or boo at as a desperate no-hoper using below the belt tactics.

You could just made grandchildren and great-grandchildren of sufferers no longer resonate with the history, and politicans who play this card being viewed by youngsters as dinosaurs. A career killer for whoever trying to attract young supporters.

For businesses to go against this, it could be mundane reason such as 'Your speech is driving customers away' or 'Your blurb cost us the deal' and so on.
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