The Japanese Ate A Lot of People In WW2

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Improv, Comedy, History

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🗓️ 23 February 2026

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

The Japanese committed a lot of war crimes in World War II but cannibalism wasn’t one of them, though only because cannibalism wasn’t technically a war crime because no one thought to make a rule against it. Still, Imperial Japanese soldiers practiced cannibalism more than you would think, and NOT because of a lack of food. We talk about the instances Japanese soldiers ate Allied troops both as an act of psychological warfare and because they believed it would bring them strength. Subscribe to the Softcore History Patreon for hundreds of hours of extra history content including episodes like this, listener voicemails, movie watch-alongs, and weekly bonus episodes. Rob Foxhttps://www.instagram.com/robfoxthree/ https://twitter.com/RobFoxThree https://www.tiktok.com/@robfoxthree Dan Regesterhttps://www.instagram.com/danregester/ https://twitter.com/dan_regester Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	You are now listening to Softcore History.
0:14.7	What is up? Welcome back to SoftCore History. I am your host for the week, Rob Fox,
0:19.7	joined as always by Dan Regester.
0:22.6	Always the pleasure to host my good friend Robert Fox.
0:25.7	In your home.
0:26.6	In my sweet abode.
0:28.2	Beautiful, wonderful home.
0:30.6	How you doing today?
0:31.4	My one bedroom apartment.
0:33.3	What do you need more than one bedroom for?
0:34.9	It's a big apartment.
0:36.1	Yeah.
0:37.4	We do it from my couch. Yeah. Big living room, bigger kitchen. You can see directly into my apartment, though, from the common area at my apartment complex. Yeah. So I wonder they see the lights on, hanging above my TV. They think it's an only thing. Just wondering what I'm doing, yeah. It's an OF setup. They think I'm spreading my cheeks, showing my hole. I feel bad for the family that lives below you on the first floor because one of their, their kids' bedroom is just like a glass door on, like next to a walkway. The slider, yeah. Yeah. They keep it open because their dogs always come running out to bark at you.
1:13.1	That's a nightmare.
1:14.8	And they're not young kids either.
1:16.4	So they're like in high school.
1:19.1	So they're like beating off like with just a thin pane of glass between them and the public.
1:25.2	It's only a two bedroom apartment as well. Oh, yeah. Their mom gets one. And the two kids get the other. It's only a two-bedroom apartment as well.
1:27.7	So their mom gets one. And the two kids get the other. I noticed that too. So that's an extra
1:32.7	masturbation nightmare. Yeah. I couldn't live like that as a 15. You got nowhere to go.
1:36.3	16-year-old. Honestly, they probably go out to the pool bathroom. That's definitely the cranks,
1:43.3	like, shed.
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