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Apr 2024
39m 25s

Japan's Warrior Scapegoats

David Gornoski
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David Gornoski sits down with Andrew Hammer for a conversation on how nation-states exist through the mass sacrifice of war, how Japan committed Seppuku during the Second World War, why death proves a nation's existence, and more.

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