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Re:The surprisingly subtle ways Microsoft Word has changed h... by TeMPOraL on Monday November 06, 2023 @09:56AM (#38163448)
Still can't find the source of it, but I remembered more details behind the "culture rewrite" hypothesis I read the other day. That source argued that US didn't just defeat Japan, but it thoroughly broke the cult of emperor that existed there until end of WWII, and thus (implied) from the POV of the whole society, the west slew their god, and became a new role model.
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Re:The surprisingly subtle ways Microsoft Word has changed h... by cubefox on Monday November 06, 2023 @02:18PM (#38167418)
The Japanese culture is still very different from the Western one. It's more similar to South Korea probably, perhaps even China in some ways.
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