• starman2112
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    7 months ago

    I’ve been learning a little bit about the Boshin War. At one point there was a group of teenage soldiers who thought they had lost a battle (they hadn’t) and so they killed themselves

    Like, humans are largely masochistic, but Japan (especially before 1945) really cranked that shit up to 11