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Former Japanese television presenter and YouTuber Kanon Aoki has warned that X’s automatic translation tool is damaging Japan’s international reputation as a polite and harmonious society.

She explains that the feature now exposes blunt or negative online comments from some Japanese users to global audiences, revealing opinions on topics like tourism and cultural norms that were previously hidden by language barriers.

Via @FujiNews_

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[–] RedLink@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

IIRC the emperor at the time literally admitted as much in his diary. I'm having trouble finding a Japanese version of his diary online but ill amend this post to have it once I do.

https://apjjf.org/tsuyoshi-hasegawa/2501/article

[–] CriticalResist8@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 2 weeks ago

I went through the timeline once and it becomes instantly clear when you follow the calendar events. I wrote about it too: https://criticalresist.substack.com/p/south-korea-was-created-from-thin

Japan accepted the prior Potsdam Declaration once the bombs dropped which was not the best deal for the US but prevented the USSR from getting anything too big, since they were not part of Potsdam (it was UK, US and the Republic of China). The US was stuck fighting over atolls while the USSR had started the liberation of Manchuria, and were not needed to win the war unlike what the UK command said in 1942, that they would need Russia's pacific bases to invade Japan. US could have continued fighting as they were approaching their own invasion, but with USSR in the picture, it was better to just accept the deal.