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truth will outlast a lie because the truth needs no maintenance.

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Life inside the Farm isn‘t all bad you know

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I've tried to highlight cultural change here, but the impact over the following 80 years is most easily characterized through the reaction to GHQ political policies. As a general rule, the Americans liberalized speech policies and encouraged critique of the government in schools, NGOs and religious groups. The radical politics of Japan from 1945 through the 1980s, which are often visible in cultural portrayals, came directly out of GHQ policy. Conversely, the conservative turn in Japan since the 1980s is a backlash against this policy, which some conservatives denigrate as anti-nationalist brainwashing.

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"The significance of China's example is not that it provides an alternative, but the demonstration that alternatives exist." – Eric X. Li: A tale of two political systems.

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Haha, good point! What can the Japanese do?

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Abe Shinzo is the correct Japanese way of writing and spelling. Western journalists turn it around to "Shinzo Abe". It is an insult. Now he is dead and can't complain no more.

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Thanks, Martin. The Japanese planned on keeping Abe's demise secret for that day, but failed so bad when Taiwanese people shared the videos in China. So, Chinese media (in Taiwan) leaked the news about the assassination while Japan NHK was still babbling about a heart attack. Surreal stuff. In 3 days, Abe case will be filed and forgotten. He achieved nothing in Japan. The nation is poorer, just sad and retarded.

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LOL, It is on purpose. Japs don't deserve their correct names. Chinese... better: Xi Jinping, Mao Zedong. But not the Japanese. The are subpar. So Shinzo Abe and Fumio Kishida. Moral lesson: Don't let white people conquer your nation.

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