The divine emperor ideology was devised by elites as a means to wrest power from the Shogun, and was utilised in turn by right wingers against reformist elements. This ideology was never entirely unc… (View Post)

Japan's apologies have often been scrutinised according to the precise wording, but more problematic has been the country-internal narrative which has often contradicted those apologies. How the issu… (View Post)

Though if he'd actually said "Soon it will be time to reveal the secret of your birth and destiny" we would have known he was doomed to die in the next scene. We've all seen enough movies :… (View Post)

As I recall (could be mistaken!) Germany has a made a deliberate policy decision to keep wages & living standards down in order to keep its export based economy as competitive as possible. (View Post)

I would like to do a non-monty haul run sometime with item randomiser removing 75% of magic items and some xp reductions. Possibly it will cut into the power curve but may be fun to try once. (View Post)