@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.