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I'm putting all this online so there's at least some record of what's going on at my posting. I don't want to think that the culture shock and stress of being so far from home is making me lose my goddamn mind. Who knows, I might even get a few answers to what in the holy name of John Moses...

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The Start of a Legend It was Seijin no Hi, the day in which a boy becomes a man, the family was reunited to celebrate your achievement; but despise all the noun playing different instruments and the girls dancing you still felt sadness, because despite this being probably the most...

Old Gods in a New World Chapter One Unearthed Grudges "-as of today, the situation in Nagoya is still developing. Reports have come in that there are at least 1.3 million evacuees who have managed to escape the city. The Earth Defense Force is currently preparing their next attack on the...

Introduction: This can be considered something of a splinter of Reds! and the Glowing Dream where I thought about my own take on a situation where America and Russia have a simultaneous revolution in the twilight of the Great War which sees no real winners and the centre manages to hold in...

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It’s ten o’clock on a Friday night, and Takahiro was alone, sitting inside a stalled dark ride. It’s been unable to move for the past fifteen minutes, a nervous voice over the intercom informing the passengers of the stall. At this point, Takahiro was amusing himself by drumming his fingers on...

The Sengoku Jidai, Age of the Country at War... The Shogun's arrogance and neglect has plunged all of Japan into a free-for-all, a contsant barrage of interconnected civil wars. In the chaos, warlord after warlord has risen to power. The terrifying trinity of demonic Oda, berserk Toyotomi, and...

[Just to clarify this is purely a hypothetical, I don't support this blatant act of imperialism.] By act of ASB/ROB, immediately after Japan's unconditional surrender the plans of the United States government shifts towards outright annexation, with Japan being cut up into american territories...

Himikoku is an alternate Japan that has had Magical Girls since early in its timeline. It was the setting of an old Quest of mine, Mahou Ronin Sachiko, and may likely be the setting of another in the future, though there's been some changes made since. I'd personally describe this setting as...

Authors Note: I love the Yakuza Series. I love its wackiness, its seriousness, how it's tone varies to cover so many topics and subjects. From the myth of the neighbourhood Yakuza clashing with the brutal criminal reality, from Karoake to gang wars. But for such a diverse cast, despite its...

I'm playing this game for the first time but I don't quite get the point? Is it like Octopath Traveler where you're simply going through each playthrough revolving around each character respectively? I'm playing this character called "Urpina." When did this game first come out? Apparently...

So what be the realistic aftermath of the events of Ishirō Honda's Gojira? When the Japanese freighter Eiko-maru is destroyed near Odo Island, another ship – the Bingo-maru – is sent to investigate, only to meet the same fate with few survivors. A fishing boat from Odo is also destroyed, with...

And yes, Mr. Wayne: it does come for the Switch. On another note, I really hope they at least keep the combat system and open-world from the previous game, but I doubt that they'll keep the open-world from what I've heard. All the same: I love the combat system from 9. Here's hoping that...

There was recently a thread on SB talking about anime and politics; the thread itself was about whether or not the genre of anime was inherently right-wing, but it eventually veered off into talking about politics in Japan and its interactions with Japanese animation and "Otaku culture" in...

Hey everyone! I've been working on this for a while over on AH.com, but have decided to start crossposting it over here as well in case there are those who are interested. For now, I'll be uploading new chapters a few times a week until I've caught up. Prologue One abyss succeeding another...

https://interestingengineering.com/elderly-in-japan-are-wearing-exoskeletons-to-keep-working-past-retirement-age One flaccid cyberpunk future, slightly used please.

1945, Japan has been defeated, not only that, parts of its country were occupied by the Soviet Union. There is no doubt what would Stalin do with this. And so the Americans were forced to concede not one but two Germany-style partitions. Unlike in Germany, the Japanese government was retained...

The Second Sino-Japanese War: Tumen-Kainei Incident On the first of February, 1915, Japanese border guards were fired upon by a Chinese patrol that had taken a wrong turn near Kainei. On the 3rd of February, the Taisho Emperor’s letter arrived in Nanjing, the capital of the Chinese Emperor...

Foreword For those who followed the first "Eisen,Blut und Fernhandel" thread, I say thank you and I am deeply sorry for the long wait. But unlike years ago, when I started EBuF, today I have sharply risen obligations to family, work and health, which cut deeply into writing time. In this new...

Exploding lights. Those are the things that catch your eye as you stare into the night sky. One after another, followed by a little trail of fire going into the sky, they explode in multicolored colors. Red, blue, yellow...They all make you stare at it with absolute wonder. Boom. Boom...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/aug/24/russia-today-puts-japan-on-the-map-where-new-zealand-should-be An alien space bat, named "Rob", lovingly plucked all the population and all the constructions of Japan and S.Korea and carefully and meticulously rearranged them so that for instance...

Since modern day Japanese being ISOT to WW2 era have been done before I want to make a thread with a little spin on it. What if Japan as of to day is ISOT to 1945 specifically August 6 1945 right after Little Boy nuclear bomb was drop from Enola Gay. And yes all US army asset currently...

Chapter 1: Drank with the devil and forgot my name Dom Justo Takamaya Ukon Acapulco de Juárez, New Spain, 1600/01/01 Saturday I look at my grandsons who are happily playing at the yard with our neighbours, and beyond them, the city full of myriad diverse people - all united under the belief...

Welcome to the land of Japan, in a time of peace and prosperity. Here, the court of the Imperial family stands proud backed by the legions of courtiers, and the foundations are being laid for all the culture to come. The center of the world is, of course, the capital, Heian-kyo. Here the...