Katana vs Broadsword

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A short animated gif purportedly highlighting the much vaunted efficacy of the katana in comparison to a mere broadsword has surfaced, inciting a storm of controversy.

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  • Anonymous commented on February 22, 2013 01:45

    Wrong a katana was afar superior weapon.... More

  • Anonymous commented on February 22, 2013 01:43

    Wrong you obviously know nothing about a katana. If it was real it would have gone right through the longsword. Japanese swords were just better.... More


Ling Chi: Death by a Thousand Cuts, in Pictures

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The ancient Chinese execution method known as “death by a thousand cuts,” or in Chinese as Ling Chi or Leng T’che, which as the name suggests involves slicing apart a live criminal, is documented in the grotesque yet fascinating photographic record reproduced below:

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  • Anonymous commented on February 29, 2012 05:12

    SURE YOU CAN.... More

  • Anonymous commented on February 29, 2012 05:10

    OH MY GOD, OHMY GOD WHY AM I LOOKING AT THESE. well I'm abit late to say this but, sure it's Chinese, there's alot of different and certainly worst torture methods back in the past.... More


Guillotine Sex Wins 2009 Bad Sex In Fiction Award

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A passage describing Nazi guillotine sex action has won the unprestigious 2009 Bad Sex In Fiction Award, thanks to such memorable phrases as “I came suddenly, a jolt that emptied my head like a spoon scraping the inside of a soft-boiled egg,” and “This sex was watching at me, spying on me, like a Gorgon’s head, like a motionless Cyclops whose single eye never blinks.”

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  • Anonymous commented on December 4, 2009 20:34

    Obviously the panel has never read any of Nasu's work, with his EPIC depictions of MEAT and MOLLUSCS...... More

  • Riiku commented on December 4, 2009 01:02

    Especially from anus sniffing scene eh?... More


Taisho Yakyuu Musume: 2D vs 3D

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One of 2ch’s relentless researchers recently collected these images of ancient baseball Taisho Yakyuu Musume ( 大正野球娘 / Taisho Baseball Girls), comparing a pair of the source 3D images of early 20th Century Japanese schoolgirls used for the show’s OP and ED sequences to the somewhat idealized 2D end result.

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  • hALOTOO commented on August 27, 2009 13:18

    Kinda remind me of my mom's old photo... More

  • Simca commented on August 25, 2009 23:36

    simca was creeped out 2D > 3D nuff said XDD... More


“No Dogs or Japanese” – 70% of Chinese Agree

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A Chinese shop caused controversy by posting a “No Dogs or Japanese Allowed” sign, barring entry to unfortunate canines or Yamato, but far from being condemned its flagrant racism is widely supported: 70% of Chinese survey respondents supported the establishment.

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  • Anonymous commented on March 10, 2012 02:14

    @Hiroshi You need to read more about history. The US didn't go around raping women and committing disturbing acts of torture on the Japanese during WWII.... More

  • Anonymous commented on December 15, 2011 01:02

    70% of the whole population ? that's an excess to statistics.... More


Okinawans Rage at Textbook Lies

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The Japanese government’s attempts to revise history textbooks to suggest Okinawan civilians were not butchered or forced into committing suicide by the Imperial Army to keep them out of American hands has run up against near unanimous opposition from Okinawans, surveys reveal.

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  • Anonymous commented on April 22, 2013 07:30

    Start with yourself then. Send pictures or live feed please Im waiting ....... More

  • Anonymous commented on April 22, 2013 07:29

    You are a retard plain and simple.... More


Chinese Foot Binding Lives On

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The thousand year old Chinese practice of foot binding may be long since abolished, but its grotesque legacy lives on in the few surviving ladies who were subjected to this crippling treatment.

Some of the last victims still live on, and the nature of the practice can be readily ascertained from the graphic photos below:

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  • Anonymous commented on December 2, 2011 02:25

    not that it doesn't need bashing...... More

  • Anonymous commented on December 2, 2011 02:24

    yeah, but this website tends to bash china more than any other country... More


Sengoku Jidai Eroge Comparsion

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The convoluted politics, distinctive personalities and bloody warfare of Japan’s Sengoku Jidai period, the centuries long period of civil war only ending in the 1600s, has long been a staple of Japanese fiction.

Naturally, this includes games, which have seen a variety of depictions of the top personalities of the age emerge, a generous selection of which you can see compared above.

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  • Touwaku commented on May 16, 2009 00:26

    Kawabunga its Nobunaga!!... More

  • that anon commented on May 15, 2009 23:58

    HAUU~... More


Chinese Men Lust After Japanese Women as Revenge

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A survey of Chinese men, asking them which foreigners they would most like to wed, has overwhelmingly revealed an almost paradoxical popularity, with Japanese women by far the most popular.

Some respondents reported wanting Japanese women as a way of gaining revenge on the ancient enemy, though doubtless there are some who would consider this just another loss for China

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  • Anonymous commented on April 10, 2012 17:11

    Hahahahahaha!!!!! That's very good, bro! That way they will learn to consider black as not an unlucky colour instead. :P... More

  • Anonymous commented on December 15, 2011 08:48

    The Africans fuck you, Didn't u see the color of ur asshole and the one of u're mother u retarded jerk?... More


Meiji Idol Gallery

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A gallery of the idols, or their rough equivalent, of 100 years prior to the present, whilst Japan was still in the Meiji period and freshly pirating all the technology it could lay its hands on.

Their swimwear is at times surprisingly risqué, although we should of course remember that certain concepts of modesty have swung in and out of fashion in both East and West repeatedly.

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  • Anonymous commented on July 31, 2010 21:11

    I always thought japanese artists were a bit incompetent, I regret and take it back. *points* They ALL look the same.... More

  • tyciol commented on April 11, 2010 09:47

    Back then I think they were just so prudish the photographer didn't know how to point out that the camel toe was showing, nor any viewers.... More


Lego Battleship Yamato

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A Lego otaku indulged his twin passions gigantic battleships and plastic bricks, and six years later this is the result: the WWII super-battleship Yamato, rendered in Lego.

It is in total 6.6m long, a metre in girth at its widest, and weighs 150kg. 200,000 Lego parts went into its construction.

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  • Anonymous commented on January 16, 2011 16:00

    Ummmm... Germany had been defeated by the time we bombed Japan.... More

  • Anonymous commented on June 13, 2010 02:35

    http://damncoolpics.blogspot.com/2007/01/lego-aircraft-carrier.html this guy built a FLOATING minifig scale copy of CVN-75 Harry S Truman. incidentally hilarious: the Yamato crew are Star WARS Imperial officers while the CVN-75 Crew are Rebel Pilots and Crew.... More


Korean Nazi Cosplayers in Marketing Putsch

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A unit of Nazi cosplayers has incited international consternation by goose-stepping about the centre of Seoul in a marketing action in support of WWII MMOFPS Karma II.

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  • Anonymous commented on February 4, 2012 22:59

    Wehrmacht uniforms wouldn't seem half as distasteful as US uniforms in Korea. Remember where they are. Remember what happened the last time US Army uniforms of around the same period were seen in Korea.... More

  • Anonymous commented on October 10, 2009 16:30

    hahaha hello I'm Korean It's not Nazi.... It's just informing the game...shooting game... More


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