aespa’s NingNing Belatedly Catches Heat For “Anti-Japanese” Post
A post on X has gone viral with over 32 million views. The post criticized aespa‘s NingNing for her alleged attitude towards Japan and the Japanese. It brought up her post from 2022 about her new lamp. They compared it to a lamp based on the atomic bombings.
NingNing has a bad attitude, and I can’t forget that she once sent a mushroom cloud lamp on Bubble.
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Japanese fans who have realized this are scrambling to cancel her. One fan deleted all their photos of aespa.
👍 https://t.co/TWSPdqtBqk pic.twitter.com/IWxCW8n0I6
— まかろに (@dkning_suko) October 19, 2025
Fans were quick to jump to her defence.
i need japanese to realize the only bunches who sympathise with yall atomic bombing tragedy is the west who shared the same colonialism history & the very offender of said tragedy… no country other than them esp other asian countries are obligated to sympathise yall https://t.co/URCj57BVck pic.twitter.com/TPSt7FaLen
— nia 🎸 (@aesparaguus) October 21, 2025
One particularly pointed out NingNing’s background as a Harbinese. The Harbin people were hit particularly hard by the Japanese occupation.
i didnt know this before but ningning is from Harbin which was occupied by japan for almost 15 years and they killed thousands of citizens in unit 731 experiments and other concentration camps and they also used the city to test chemical and incendiary weapons. so. https://t.co/PQVQUIFb5w
— claire from paramore🇵🇸🌼 (@wonpilgay) October 20, 2025
On the other hand, some have also found that the lamp itself is widely sold in Japan.
this lamp is sold normally in Japan and is even sold out. the product description in Japanese states that it is very suitable for children's rooms and makes a great gift for kids. yet, some radical people are using this lamp to criticize ningning. leave my girl alone🤣 https://t.co/iphupbXj0e pic.twitter.com/kvekPNF1Kf
— imnotbored (@stunning_allyyy) October 22, 2025
As the Japanese war and occupation were global tragedies that caused millions of civilians to suffer, it seems that most non-Japanese netizens are firmly on NingNing’s side.
so r4ping women in Nanning during the 1939 massacre and torturing prisoners in harbin unit experiments in the early 1940s weren’t considered atrocities, but owning a lamp resembling an atomic bomb suddenly is? https://t.co/qT18JTyOzA pic.twitter.com/PrL9A7LMaG
— zaynsoo pr manager (@zaynsooprmngr) October 21, 2025
