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Why is Okinawa blocking plans to build an American military base? - The Economist explains
ON FRIDAY the assembly of Okinawa, Japan’s southernmost territory, is set to approve a new lawsuit to block construction of an American military ba...
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Why modern Japan’s founding moment still divides a nation - Banyan - The Economist
THE story of Japan’s modernisation began 150 years ago this month, when a band of young samurai and their allies overthrew the Tokugawa shogunate a...
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TOKYO: Earth's Model MEGACITY
Tokyo is the most successful metropolis in the history of the world with 39 million residents, 50% more people than any other urban area. It is the...
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State Shinto - Wikipedia
State Shintō ( Kokka Shintō) describes Imperial Japan's ideological use of the native folk traditions of Shinto.[1]:547 The state strongly encourag...
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State Shinto: A Religion Interrupted - How the Japanese Government took over the country's native religion
Learn why the Japanese government hijacked a religion and created State Shinto, and how it changed modern Japan.
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The Bomb Didn’t Beat Japan … Stalin Did
Have 70 years of nuclear policy been based on a lie? The U.S. use of nuclear weapons against Japan during World War II has long been a subject o...
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