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Did Japan Have a War Plan Against The US After Pearl Harbor?
Japan’s hopes was that after destroying the Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, that it would take at minimum 2 years for the US to rebuild…
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What is Seppuku?
Seppuku is a ritualized and institutionalized form of suicide among the Samurai in Feudal Japan, performed by plunging a sword into your stomach and disemboweling yourself.…
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How Were Pilots Chosen To Become Kamizakes?
Because the tokkōtai operation was a guarantee of death, the top military officers, quite hypocritically, decided not to make this operation an official part of the…
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What Is Yubitsume?
(photo by Nesnad is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0) “Sleeping with the fishes” is an age-old idiom associated with the mob as a punishment for serious…
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Why Is There A Growing Number of People Voluntarily Disappearing In Japan?
No human in this world does anything without a reason. There is always a reason no matter what and in Japan (specifically Tokyo) there is a…
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The last time a major political figure was assassinated in Japan was back in 1960 when a 17-year-old by the name of Otoya Yamaguchi used a…
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Japanese Cafe Found A Way To Employ Paralyzed People As Waiters Robot waiters are not a new concept in the technology sphere. They are already used…
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How Hard Is It To Own A Gun In Japan?
Almost no one in Japan owns a gun. Most kinds are illegal, with onerous restrictions on buying and maintaining the few that are allowed. Even the…
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An increasing number of elderly Japanese people are committing small crimes so they can live in prison for free. People aged 65+ now make up more…
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Why Did Japan Think It Was Worthwhile To Attack The US at Pearl Harbor?
The Japanese leadership had come to the conclusion that they needed national self-sufficiency for their growing military aspirations. They didn’t have the oil and other natural…