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Because they are typically corrupt shitholes and its advantageous for the leaders to create external boogeymen for the populous to direct anger at. South Korea did it successfully when they had 0 issue with the Rising Sun and regularly held join exercises with the JMSDF only for some Korean soccer player to blame a hissy fit he had on one he "saw" in the crowd. Then it became a national rally to try and have the flag banned and any JMSDF docking in Korea was banned from flying it. Notice the massive uptick in popularity in 2016 right around when it came out that the government was ran by a literal cult.