@MatthewDownhour compare and contrast to the tankie W.E.B. du Bois who went on holiday to Manchukuo and spent WWII writing about how based Emperor Hirohito was https://t.co/fT3jKNB7PP
@DavidAstinWalsh @TheAtlantic Du Bois also argued Imperial Japan was anti-racist and that its war of conquest against China was good: https://t.co/lisPeXkn5N
This book covers the first 20 years of the Takarazuka Girls Revue Company, which started in 1914. #ndldigital https://t.co/m9AP3zxv10 https://t.co/9KOVLxOJ3N
The knowledge that DuBois was sympathetic to Stalin (people quote his eulogy!) is common, but he was also a weeb, supported Japanese colonialism, and view the Empire of Japan as a based thing even in the 30s:
W.E.B. Du Bois: From Japanophile to Apologist
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Wow, looks like smiling in photographs really took off after the Great War! This graph shows the percentage of photographed individuals who are smiling in the newspaper Tokyo Asahi Shimbun over the Taishō era (1912-26)
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A young woman dressed in 18th century Japanese attire is doting on her cat. The cat looks a little annoyed. You can see a similar scene today! #ndldigital https://t.co/NQpUnXIJE9 https://t.co/1S8MwH26SU
Look at these humorous illustrations by #Jichosai , a caricature painter in the Edo period! Don’t you think that his works have something in common with present-day manga? #ndldigital https://t.co/bXYeOSYlW2 https://t.co/4mvQrWFHCx
People of Edo enjoyed a virtual backstage tour at a kabuki theater by playing a board game: https://t.co/VukvttxTB1 #ndldigital https://t.co/twiwAqCxWg
@RokuroRoro This book was actually written as a joke in the 1870s. It was meant to be exactly as funny as we find it today!
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