Status Updates From The Shortest History of Jap...

“For decades, experiences such as these served to colour perceptions of Japan and the Japanese among western and Asian neighbours.”

what a strange way to refer to the thai-burma death railway camps & rape of nanking?? also, not a single mention of korean comfort women, unit 731, manila massacre, etc. etc.

when u talk about the holocaust u don’t talk about how it “coloured perceptions of germany” so wtf

“Albert Einstein spent two months in Japan, which he found fascinating, exotic and somewhat hard to understand.” average experience

veering into stuff i know about now. 15 pages dedicated to the bakumatsu period and the Boshin war was not referenced once. very disappointing chapter i feel like a lot of information was glossed over, there’s so many different sides and their goals just aren’t made clear. makes me wonder if previous chapters were equally lacking and i just didn’t catch it

oh no somebody stop them they’re brewing sake and soy sauce