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Sep 11, 2026

German Tourist Calls Yasukuni 'Illegal in Germany,' and Japan Pushes Back

A German tourist's video criticizing Yasukuni Shrine as 'illegal in Germany' and as 'brainwashing' set off a strong pushback online. Many argued that Germany's Nazi-specific rules do not belong at another country's memorial, while a smaller strand conceded Japan under-teaches its own wartime conduct.

Report on Wartime 'Cross-Species Blood' Experiments Stirs Relativism and Media Distrust

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Society

Jun 22, 2026

Report on Wartime 'Cross-Species Blood' Experiments Stirs Relativism and Media Distrust

Kyodo News reported that during the Second Sino-Japanese War, an instructor at the Army Medical School recorded repeated 'cross-species' transfusion experiments injecting animal blood into people—drawn from records preserved in the journal of the official 'Army Medical Corps,' reportedly covering 23 subjects of unknown background and including large-volume horse-blood transfusions deemed beyond the pale. Online, alongside shock, the dominant strands were relativism ('every country ran similar human experiments in wartime') and suspicion of why Kyodo would report this 'now,' framing the timing as politically motivated.

Society

May 5, 2026

Evil Country Rankings And Massacres

A viral ranking that reportedly placed Japan seventh among history's most evil countries triggered pushback and comparison-making. A related thread on communist-era massacres pushed the discussion toward historical atrocities, though the ranking itself had no clear methodology or source.