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Hello and welcome to Prism of the past a semi-weekly series about historical events, people and situations from the fascinating to the forgotten.

I'm the aluminati and today we're going to be talking about Japan. Throughout history

Japan has been considered an incredibly fierce country especially in the eyes of

Americans. In the past they were depicted as a militaristic aggressor. They were the country

that bombed Pearl Harbor, colonized Korea, invaded China, a threat, to say the least.

And so, ever since World War II, Japan has seemingly promoted and

used anime and kawai culture to essentially rebrand themselves into a culture

that to the general American would seem non-threatening. Now before I get into this I want to put a massive

disclaimer in front of this episode. I wrote the script because I believe that some of

the intentions in history of anime and Kauai culture are fascinating and wanted to talk about it.

Just as like a general thing, but as I started digging into the topic and as you're going to see today,

there is a wide variety of opinions around this topic and some of them almost tread into like this weird kind of conspiracy level territory.

And while I'm not a conspiracy theorist myself, I think they're still interesting to look at and I'm also not an expert on Japan

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