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Part One: The Slavery Loving Fascist who Built Modern Japan

Behind the Bastards

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Japanese Nationalism

In 18 94, japan launches a war against china over cntrol the crean peninsula. They just smash the chinese army. And when he's eight years old, japan wins his next major war, which is the ruso japanese war. Have this giant, like culture, confiat manjust like annihilates like allof the sort of, like, local nonlike shinto religions. This is what nineteenth, twentiet century nationalism is: an attempt to impose national language and culture on a bunch of people who up until this point had nothing in common with each other. In order to get rid of thas that used to be, all government was

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