Japanese member of the House of Councillors starts investigation into Ubisoft and Thomas Lockley for Historical Revisionism and Cultural Invasion

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Satoshi Hamada is an elected member of the House of Councillors, the Upper House of the National Diet of Japan.





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Looks like some of the dodgier stuff Lockley pulled back in 2019 will be put under scrutiny by Japanese officials, as well as all the wikipedia revisionism that's been happening since all the way back to 2014.

This might be turning into the videogame's version of Netflix Queen Cleopatra.
 

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Are they going to investigate that coomer anime that turned WWII flying aces into cute girls too?
 
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Are they going to investigate that coomer anime that turned WWII flying aces into cute girls too?

They might if he claimed those girls were true legendary flying aces, released a book in Japan saying it was all fiction but then an English translation with different text claiming it was historically accurate, only for western media plus a bunch of Wikipedia editors to start picking that up and running the fake story as if it was real.


Did that happen as well?
 
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This is not going to lead to anything concrete.
In Egypt it lead to a $2B lawsuit from authorities against Netflix, though I don’t think that will be the case here. Maybe there will be consequences for Lockley as he's a professor in Japan.

But they might do some press releases around the subject and "ask" Ubisoft to make it clear that the game they're making has no historical accuracy and it's a fantasy world ("Isekai").
 
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I see we already changed the tune from "the Japanese actually love this, it's only racist westerners complaining" to strawmen and whataboutisms over unrelated media.


It's a step in the right direction.
 
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I see we already changed the tune from "the Japanese actually love this, it's only racist westerners complaining" to strawmen and whataboutisms over unrelated media.


It's a step in the right direction.

I don't care about this game whatsoever, I don't buy ubisoft games.

But life and especially laws are based on precedence.

This isn't about whataboutisms, it's about equal treatment under the law and in society.

If you're suggesting this is a step in the right direction, I'd assume you're suggesting that we keep the same energy if another movie like Last Samurai releases or games like Nioh.

There's a long history of this kind of game, so it's blatantly obvious why the pitchforks are out domestically and internationally.

As for how well the game does, it's super easy to find that out... you know... like most games... once it releases.
 
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Update:

It looks like Thomas Lockley himself, under the alias "Tottori Tom" is the one who started changing the Wikipedia's Yasuke page all the way back to 2015 by starting to put the samurai label in the person, eventually changing it to put his own fictional book as reference.





Things aren't going well for this dude.




But life and especially laws are based on precedence.

This isn't about whataboutisms, it's about equal treatment under the law and in society.

If you're suggesting this is a step in the right direction, I'd assume you're suggesting that we keep the same energy if another movie like Last Samurai releases or games like Nioh.

Why do you insist on The Last Samurai? Tom Cruise's character isn't "The Last Samurai" in that movie, he isn't ever given that title either.

I'm guessing you didn't see the movie or don't remember the plot.
The Last Samurai is set almost 300 years after Nobunaga's death and it follows the Meiji Restoration where the Emperor took back control over Japan.
That meant ending the Shogunate and all the Samurai titles that existed. The movie is about the end of that era, the last men that were ever called Samurai.

And the movie's marketing and production never mentions Tom Cruise's character as being historical. The character is pure fiction and is presented as such.
Compare that to Ubisoft yelling to all corners of the world how they're using a "real historical character, Yasuke the Black Samurai".



There's a long history of this kind of game, so it's blatantly obvious why the pitchforks are out domestically and internationally.

Yes, it's blatantly obvious that the pitchforks are out because once again a coward unscrupulous western corporation is making use of black people as tokens of protection against every criticism over their game, to fill in DEI checkboxes to get cheaper ESG credit and to virtue signal to their BFFs videogame journalists.

What shocks me is how this shit is actually working for some people.

- None of Yasuke's original records (4 paragraphs from 3 sources) mention him as being made Samurai and the last record specifically says he isn't regarded as one (hence no seppukku)?
Shut up, you're just racist.

- Ubisoft put Chinese written characters or writes Japanese characters wrong in the trailers and promo pieces?
Shut up, you're just racist.

- Ubisoft fucks up all the cultural customs, architecture details, seasonal crops and religious symbols in the trailers?
Shut up, you're just racist.

- Ubisoft gets caught stealing the artwork created by Japanese reenactment groups and putting them in their game?
Shut up, you're just racist.


And they couldn't even be more blunt about the DEI checkbox part by making Yasuke LGBTQ and hiring an expert on Japanese gay pedophilia as "historical consultant".
 
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Here's a nice article explaining the extent of Thomas Lockley's subversions throughout the last decade that resulted in the Samurai Yasuke hoax.

Why It Took So Long for Japanese People to Realize the Yasuke Problem: Perfidious Historian, Thomas Lockley


Another hoax he created was the one about Yasuke taking Oda Nobunaga's head with him after his death. This would have been a rather conclusive symbol of legitimacy for Yasuke getting a feudal title.
In the Japanese version of the book he says some random and unknown japanese people who claim to be descendents of the Oda family have passed that information as oral tradition. In the English version he claims it was the Oda clan themselves who told him that.


The funny thing is.. the guy is right now touring around the world for his new book about William Adams, and he's getting tons of interviews every day. The dude looks like he's constantly on edge. The interest in this new book only exists because of the success of the Yasuke book.. for which he created a ton of hoaxes by himself, to the point of altering wikipedia entries. And the Japanese are angry about it.




Wow, what? Please elaborate on this

Legal team takes action over Netflix’s ‘Queen Cleopatra’ in Egypt


“The events of the film contain a great falsification of historical facts and it is a severe insult to the Ancient Egyptians. These are not my words, but the words of academic figures, specialists in Egyptology and archaeology,”
After viewing the documentary, he said he “became more insistent on suing Netflix because it insulted the Egyptians and deliberately falsified history. Every day, the number of lawyers and parties joining the lawsuit increases, and one of them demanded two billion dollars in compensation for the damage to the reputation of the state.”


Western corporations blackwashing other cultures for DEI / ESG cheap credit isn't something invented by Ubisoft. It's been widely used for years.
Blackwashing has been tolerated (many times even celebrated) in the West because of the White Guilt belief. But turns out only white people suffer from White Guilt (shocking, I know).
 

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Legal team takes action over Netflix’s ‘Queen Cleopatra’ in Egypt






Western corporations blackwashing other cultures for DEI / ESG cheap credit isn't something invented by Ubisoft. It's been widely used for years.
Blackwashing has been tolerated (many times even celebrated) in the West because of the White Guilt belief. But turns out only white people suffer from White Guilt (shocking, I know).
Very interesting, thanks for sharing. Yes, we don't have DNA or info about her mother, but Cleopatra was from the Ptolemaic monarchy (so Macedonian Greek, European family) from a couple thousand years ago, so she was mediterranean white, so maybe a bit tan in summer, something we can see in many realistic sculptures made at her times and several contemporary paintings. But in any case, it's obvious she wasn't black.

Yes, the revisionism with history sucks, specially the one because of ideologies or nationalisms. In this case, uncultured people who thinks or wants to make people believe everyone from Africa are (or were) black, particularly very dark skinned (sub-saharian).

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Stop using those statues. They’re not relevant. They were made after she died. They’re basically Greek and Roman made statues of what THEY believe she looked like. They are not contemporary.

When clearly African people are shown in many of ancient Egyptian statues people ignore them and say you can’t use the statues. What do those same people do to show cleopatra was Greek and white? They run to the statues and “See! See! She is white!” Unfortunately for them all her depictions were made after she was alive by other people from a different time.


And there’s no such thing as “sub Saharan Africa.” There are indigenous Africans all over African including North Africa. Millions of black people still living in Egypt TODAY.

You’re using so many Eurocentric tropes and misinformation.

Uncultured? The fuck is that is suppose to mean? Get out of here with that bullshit. The only uncultured people are eurocentrics who believe white people and eurasians were responsible for all ancient civilizations.
 
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In Egypt it lead to a $2B lawsuit from authorities against Netflix, though I don’t think that will be the case here. Maybe there will be consequences for Lockley as he's a professor in Japan.

But they might do some press releases around the subject and "ask" Ubisoft to make it clear that the game they're making has no historical accuracy and it's a fantasy world ("Isekai").

Of course they would sue Netflix. Those modern Egyptians don’t want the world to know the ancient Egyptians are black. It’s been proven plenty of times already.

Cleopatras sister Arsinoe had African blood. Her mother was probably African. That’s why the Netflix movie has a black girl, who is of mixed race also, playing Cleopatra. Their mother could be black


(I don’t know why the video is not working on here. It’s called “Cleopatra's sister Arsinoe had African ancestry”)

This is a clip from a TV special on Cleopatra and her half-sister Arsinoe. Forensic Anthropologists who studied a reconstruction of Princess Arsinoe's skull confirmed that its anthropometric characteristics suggested mixed European and African ancestry which challenges the myth that Ptolmaic royalty did not intermingle with native Egyptians

Her skull shape is typical of Africans. It’s also typical in *gaps* ancient Egyptians. Which is located Africa and is populated by African people.

The skull shape with back being extended is called dolichocephalic. A lot of black people have that skull shape and that is the shape of a lot of ancient Egyptian skulls.
 
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There is no “blackwashing.” That term doesn’t even make any sense.

It only started being used because stupid racist white people are trying to have something to go against black people. Anything black Americans do white people must have a counterpoint just because.

Like them saying there should be a White Entertainment Channel since black peoples have BET.

What these dumbasses fail to realize is there’s already a white channel. From channel 1 to 1000. The whole point of something like BET was created is because black people aren’t represented enough regularly on TV. So let’s go make a TV station. That apparently isn’t enough for the low IQ people and they must complain about everything black.

Black people being independent…….Why are they doing that! You don’t need that! Stop separating yourselves!

Black people being represented on TV and other entertainment avenues by other people…….That’s WOKE! They’re only doing that because they are black!


Can’t catch a break.
 
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Those modern Egyptians don’t want the world to know the ancient Egyptians are black. It’s been proven plenty of times already.

Anyone who doesn't bow down to my blackwashing is racist! Including.. checks notes.. Egyptian historians and archeologists!


(I don’t know why the video is not working on here. It’s called “Cleopatra's sister Arsinoe had African ancestry”)
Oh yes that famous BBC "documentary" where they first thought they were exhuming Cleopatra's half sister's skull but scholars later revealed it wasn't even Arsinoe as the skeleton turned out to belong to a much younger girl. The skeleton belongs to a 15 year-old girl, Arsinoe was murdered in her mid-20s.

I.e. bunch of westerners trying to blackwash Cleopatra and failing miserably.





There is no “blackwashing.” That term doesn’t even make any sense.


Imagine saying this shit with a straight face.

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It only started being used because stupid racist white people are trying to have something to go against black people.

LOL the Egyptian historians and archeologists you mentioned above also count as "stupid racist white people"?
 

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Damn dude. You addressed nothing I said and just posted the usual anti anything black response.

Anyone who doesn't bow down to my blackwashing is racist! Including.. checks notes.. Egyptian historians and archeologists!

This is what I’m talking about. Any type of factual information that goes against the current eurocentric narrative on history is automatically called Afrocentric.

Ummm you do know there are plenty of archeologists, egyptoligist, and historians that have proven the ancient Egyptians are indigenous African people. It just doesn’t get publicized like the nonsensical Arab/eurasian fake history of ancient Egypt does.

Robert Bauval, who is a modern Egyptian by the way (at least born there) wrote a book called BLACK GENESIS. Showing scientific, genetic, anthropological, cultural, and plenty of other on foot research, that ancient Egypt was an African civilization. Read real information on this history


Presents proof that an advanced black African civilization inhabited the Sahara long before Pharaonic Egypt

• Reveals black Africa to be at the genesis of ancient civilization and the human story

• Examines extensive studies into the lost civilization of the “Star People” by renowned anthropologists, archaeologists, genetic scientists, and cultural historians as well as the authors’ archaeoastronomy and hieroglyphics research

• Deciphers the history behind the mysterious Nabta Playa ceremonial area and its stone calendar circle and megaliths

Relegated to the realm of archaeological heresy, despite a wealth of hard scientific evidence, the theory that an advanced civilization of black Africans settled in the Sahara long before Pharaonic Egypt existed has been dismissed and even condemned by conventional Egyptologists, archaeologists, and the Egyptian government. Uncovering compelling new evidence, Egyptologist Robert Bauval and astrophysicist Thomas Brophy present the anthropological, climatological, archaeological, geological, and genetic research supporting this hugely debated theory of the black African origin of Egyptian civilization.

Building upon extensive studies from the past four decades and their own archaeoastronomical and hieroglyphic research, the authors show how the early black culture known as the Cattle People not only domesticated cattle but also had a sophisticated grasp of astronomy; created plentiful rock art at Gilf Kebir and Gebel Uwainat; had trade routes to the Mediterranean coast, central Africa, and the Sinai; held spiritual and occult ceremonies; and constructed a stone calendar circle and megaliths at the ceremonial site of Nabta Playa reminiscent of Stonehenge, yet much older. Revealing these “Star People” as the true founders of ancient Egyptian civilization, this book completely rewrites the history of world civilization, placing black Africa back in its rightful place at the center of mankind’s origins.

There’s so much other information besides this on ancient Egyptian being a black civilization. It unfortunately gets hidden or ignored on purpose. The history people have been shown and taught on ancient Egypt have been 100% wrong.

Oh yes that famous BBC "documentary" where they first thought they were exhuming Cleopatra's half sister's skull but scholars later revealed it wasn't even Arsinoe as the skeleton turned out to belong to a much younger girl. The skeleton belongs to a 15 year-old girl, Arsinoe was murdered in her mid-20s.

I.e. bunch of westerners trying to blackwash Cleopatra and failing miserably.

That’s not the only source.

You clearly ignored the Egyptologist Sally Ann Ashton website I linked talking about Cleopatra. She was more than likely half black.

She’s also in the Cleopatra movie explaining why Cleopatra was mixed race.


Imagine saying this shit with a straight face.

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This proves what I was saying in my original post. Any type of black presence in media is automatically labeled blackwashing and afrocentric. Because racist prejudice people hate anything black.

You do know black people have nothing to do with making those right? All these recent movies and shows are from white owned corporations. A lot of black people don’t even care for them. They would rather make their own content. Which would still get complaints anyway.

The fact that picture was actually made is damn ridiculous.

There is no blackwashing. Only racist who don’t like black people. It’s hilarious to use that word when whitewashing has real historical precedence gong back hundreds of years. Blackwashing is only used as some bullshit payback.

Thankfully we have historical context.

LOL the Egyptian historians and archeologists you mentioned above also count as "stupid racist white people"?

Why would they be included as racist? Do you even know what the word means? They are obviously telling the truth about history and have no problem talking about black or African history. It actually frustrates them that this information is not more public.

The one Egyptologist that I linked, Sally Ann Ashton, was actually shocked there was a sentiment that the ancient Egyptians are not black. She believed everybody already knew they were African. It wasn’t until she started doing more research and interacting with more people that she realized there was this anti black racist conversation on ancient Egypt. Which led her down the path she’s on showing verifiable evidence on these indigenous African people.

Which brings up the point of how people always automatically assume when racism is brought up that means all white people or whoever else.
 
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Dear mods ( @Sircaw ? @Bryank75 ?) is it possible to create a new thread with the Cleopatra stuff? It's really not related to the Ubisoft and Thomas Lockley thing.




Ummm you do know there are plenty of archeologists, egyptoligist, and historians that have proven the ancient Egyptians are indigenous African people.

No there are not. There's a dozen nutjobs (mostly white saviors) pushing afrocentrism everywhere because they're constantly distressed whenever they see anything but the sub-saharian skin tone as the root of everything (you know, like actual racists), and not one person worth their time is feeding this theory.

In fact this is the last time I waste time arguing about Cleopatra's skin color. It's such a stupid concept for anyone who's been to any North-African country.
Feel free to create your thread to argue about that.



You clearly ignored the Egyptologist Sally Ann Ashton website I linked talking about Cleopatra.
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The one Egyptologist that I linked, Sally Ann Ashton, was actually shocked there was a sentiment that the ancient Egyptians are not black.

The "one Egyptologist" that you linked isn't an egyptologist. She works as a psychologist for prisons with black criminals who previously wrote a thesis about the influence on Egypt in Greek/Macedonian sculptures (therefore not in Egypt, but in Greece).

She's a white savior who believes that making up shit about Ancient Egypt will give black criminals some sense of belonging, promptly ignoring how actual Egyptians have a culture and identity of their own and don't wish for those to be erased by an American lady suffering from white guilt.



She believed everybody already knew they were African.
I see this is rooted in ignorance. You need to look at a world map.
"African" doesn't mean black. All Egyptians are African, very few Egyptians are black. I should know, I've been to Egypt and a bunch other African countries.
Even to this day, black people in African countries above the Sahara are a minority.




This proves what I was saying in my original post. Any type of black presence in media is automatically labeled blackwashing and afrocentric.
LOL 32 non-black characters turned black within the last decade is obviously a large enough scale to call it blackwashing.
This list isn't even a very thorough one.


Because racist prejudice people hate anything black.

I bet I've travelled to more subsaharian countries (with an overwhelming majority of black people), using a good chunk of the little money I earn to observe their people and enjoy their culture, than most of the people spewing this kind of shit ever will.


The fact that picture was actually made is damn ridiculous.
Yes, that picture made you uncomfortable.
 

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Guys, I am extremely happy that you guys are having a chat, I am leaving this thread open for now as long as it remains respectful in tone.

Saying that, I do fear we have an unstoppable force vs. an unmovable object scenario going on here, where both parties are talking but not necessarily listening to each other.

I will move this thread to the communities section of the forum.

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