"The atom bombs didn't even really do as much damage as our non stop fire bombing campaigns did."
"The bombs had no affect. By the time we dropped the atom bombs we had already fire bombed 90% of the cities to dust."
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fyi the first hour of this video is about how terror bombing is fucked and completely militarily useless
It turns out the Japanese wiki article is pretty in-depth, and obviously lacks the weird Orientalism.
Sorry, sometimes I'm just too used to seeing "the ancient Japanese practice of [extremely common mundane word]."
https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%A4%A9%E7%9A%87%E5%88%B6%E3%83%95%E3%82%A1%E3%82%B7%E3%82%BA%E3%83%A0
that one covers it somewhat in detail too
also, fetishizing or making apologies for or going out of one's way to "Otherize" & "exoticize" the material/historical and objective realities in these places is another form of "Orientalism". I am only looking at primary sources from the time, not just historical revisionism & pro-Japanese perspectives that need to whitewash & "contextualize" this brutal history
Straining to find "idiosyncrasies" or "peculiarities" and deferring to "nuance" or something when the historical facts point clearly at an irrational ultranationalist thread running through these Anti-Comintern Pact nations is all deflection.
the sources I provided are largely translations of quotes made by Japanese scholars & business leaders & all squarely from the pre-war period
Not sure if you looked at the information I provided, but any of the sources you have questions about I can give more about them.