“Hitler failed out of art school, one thing led to another, the US dropped two atomic bombs on Japan.” Brian Regan

Somebody over there got this crazy airplane idea approved….

Sounds like the Russian line of thinking with Ukraine.

Hitler found himself involved in a Holocaust I guess.

Well obviously they just happened to stumble into Chinese territory. How silly of them!

It's Japanese history, they got a knack for this kind of bullshit. I went to a museum in Japan and they called the Russo Japanese war a defensive war... A defensive war when they surprise attacked the Russians at Port Arthur LMAO

Hey now, they were just visiting Manchuria for the summer...

It's a direct translation from Japanese, which is by default a passive language.

Well, World War I led to a rise in silver prices. Japanese merchants bought Manchurian silver coins and sold them to Europeans. They got money and then built factories in Manchuria.

The Zhang warlords lost money, and the economy became unstable (Fengtien Dollar problem). Many Chinese and Japanese believed the instability was caused by the Zhang warlords.

This is why the Japanese army could make Manchukuo independent under Japanese direction.

As a Japanese I thought Americans actually liked low quality paper/prints in books to make them more nostalgic

There used to be a Japanese bookstore in San Francisco, not sure if it’s still there (this was 20 years ago). As a starving art student I’d spend the few extra bucks I had to pick up the occasional magazine, design, art, or cooking book. They still are in top condition and the esthetics hold up. My prize possession is a microwave cook book from the 90’s long out of print. I can’t read Japanese but it’s stunning. The design, print and paper quality is hard to match even today.

You're phone can see future

I mean yeah, it's glass. Buoyed with a weight from the battery and computers.  You wouldn't believe the engineering effort they put into trying to make screens less breakable. 

Clay tablets in ancient Sumerian are better.

// data storage professional

It's rock carvings lol.