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The Kyushu University Vivisection Incident: Were the Cannibalism Rumors True?
English Version The Kyushu University Vivisection Incident is one of the darkest medical war crimes associated with wartime Japan. In the case, living pris -
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Kyushu University Vivisection Incident: Were “Artificial Blood” Experiments Performed on POWs?
English Version The Kyushu University Vivisection Incident refers to human experiments carried out in 1945, while Japan was fighting World War II, at the m -
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Omikuji in Japan: Fortune Slips, Shrine Etiquette, and Strange Oracles to Try
English Version Some things seem simple until you look closer. Omikuji, the paper fortunes drawn at shrines and temples across Japan, are one of them. Mayb -
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The Comfort Women Controversy: A Dark Chapter in Japan-Korea Memory Wars
English Version South Korea and Japan are neighboring countries that have often clashed over what is commonly called “historical understanding.” This artic -
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Mount Fuji: Japan’s Sacred Highest Peak on a Mysterious Ley Line
English Version In this installment of our ley line series, we turn to Mount Fuji, Japan’s highest mountain. Mount Fuji is an active volcano standing 3,776 -
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Who Was the Mona Lisa? The Leading Theory and Five Mysterious Candidates
English Version If you asked people around the world, “What is the most famous painting on Earth?” the answer would probably be the Mona Lisa . It has been -
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Did Japan’s Hata Clan Descend from Qin Shi Huang? Xu Fu, the Shiji, and an Ancient Mystery
English Version In an earlier article on possible origins of the Hata clan, we briefly introduced one popular theory: that the immigrant Hata people may ha -
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Illuminati Cards: The Creepy Game Rumored to Predict the Future
English Version The Illuminati cards are a type of card game—but according to some rumors, they are not just a game. They have been called “cards that pred -
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Dong Zhuo’s Strange Bluff: How a Three Kingdoms Tyrant Seized the Han Court
English Version In the early chapters of the Three Kingdoms story, Dong Zhuo is the warlord who takes control of the imperial court so completely that othe -
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Restless Spirits After an Earthquake: A Care Home Ghost Story and a Child’s Premonition
English Version Last month, there was an earthquake while my wife was at work. It was a level 3 on Japan’s seismic intensity scale, but even at home the sh