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What’s the Matter with Japan?

June 10, 2008 - 11:59 am - by Garrett DeOrio
TalkinKamel
2008-06-11 08:36:34

Also, there was the incredible violence the Japanese displayed during WWII: the Rape of Nanking, the Bataan Death March, hideous experiments on prisoners, and so on; and the Japanese, as a nation, have never really faced up to their past, or apologized for their crimes.

I think this might be a better explanation of their current climate of simmering violence and disinterest in life (as a people, the Japanese are dying out; the old outnumber the young), than blaming it on the American occupation, or anime.