Mark Gagnon
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So I guess that's, maybe that's the lesson.
We're taught all the time, like, you know, these types of atrocities, never again.
And there was no retribution, no tribunal, no justice until Imperial Japan actually fell in 46.
Bro, well, it's not like a very, like, rigid religious structure.
They don't have, like, rules.
Like, it's just kind of like a spiritual embrace of nature.
I don't know.
I mean, my presumption would be that the wake of this absolutely affected them and that like the warrior mentality just kind of shifted and that like you have American reconstruction in Japan that like massively takes hold.
And so like being imported with American values, I think, does change like the cultural psyche.
But furthermore, like a lot of the salarymen that like sort of uphold Japanese culture and like the economic viability of the country.
It seems like based off of stuff I've read, like specifically with the surrender of the Japanese in 46.
Oh, brother.
Now I sound like a dumbass.
No, you're good, bro.
The surrender of the Japanese at some point, 45, 46, the emperor comes out and he gives a speech in 45.