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• @godspeed2u@social.vivaldi.net 2026-07-16 13:29

  @F100@mastodon.social Japan was occupied after 1945. We do not need to imagine occupation; we experienced it. For that reason, I reject the casual use of occupation as a rhetorical counterfactual. My paper addresses the responsibility burdens imposed by continuing war. A different hypothetical does not refute that analysis.

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• @godspeed2u@social.vivaldi.net 2026-07-16 13:30

  @F100@mastodon.social As a Japanese, I cannot treat occupation as an abstract thought experiment. My own family lost its domain about 400 years ago. It had existed for nearly 500 years and was sustained by retainers and the people who lived there. Even after four centuries, I have met descendants of those retainers, and I know that the consequences of a nation’s fall do not simply disappear with time. That is why I do not speak lightly about occupation or national collapse.

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