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    22 hours ago

    I am willing to wager that most westerners have no idea what the political structure is in Japan.

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      20 hours ago

      A couple years ago I saw some articles talking about the Japanese princess moving to America to live a normal life with her family.

      My main takeaway was: “Japan has a royal family?”

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        19 hours ago

        Yeah same. From dabblings into WWII figure I knew that Japan had an emperor during WWII but I didn’t know anything about the position. I sort of assumed it fizzled out after WWII.

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      18 hours ago

      I know they have a pretty brutal work culture, which suggests a dismal political landscape, but that’s about it. That seems like a pretty typical knowledge level for westerners, so you’re probably right.

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        6 hours ago

        They also have a batshit judicial culture and women apparently never get justice and most courts are a kind of semi-scripted kangaroo court.

        Ace Attorney was specifically made as a parody of Japan’s courts IIRC.