I'm not sure by what metric the term is measured but 2 nukes dropped on your populous should qualify.
-
Ever wanted an RSS feed of all your favorite gaming news sites? Go check out our new Gaming Headlines feed! Read more about it here.
Is Japan considered to be a post apocalyptic society?
- Thread starter Soapbox Killer
- Start date
- Status
It's surprising how accurate Akira has been to reality over the last couple of years.
Yemen and Syria will be worth noticing. If you want to give a shit why not read up on South Korea?
I was wondering when the new "let's feel good about Japan having a-bombs dropped on it" thread would be.
At any rate, the assistance from the same country that bombed it helped Japan recover relatively quickly and if you want to use fiction as your barometer than no, Japan is not a post-apocalyptic country.
At any rate, the assistance from the same country that bombed it helped Japan recover relatively quickly and if you want to use fiction as your barometer than no, Japan is not a post-apocalyptic country.
The reconstruction era post-Godzilla went pretty smoothly and since Mothra only attacked part of 1 city that's hardly an apocalypse.
OP
OP
Every few weeks there's a thread about Japan getting nuked and how necessary/deserved/etc. it was.
Granted, I'm not saying that was your intention but it's what the thread will become-that and jokes
That's because most of the world is a post war society. We just don't notice because we've become accustomed to it
By definition it could technically fall under number 2 but most people use the term "apocalypse" to describe the end of the world so I probably wouldn't refer to it that way if you don't want to confuse people.
Apocalypse
1. the complete final destruction of the world, as described in the biblical book of Revelation.
2. an event involving destruction or damage on a catastrophic scale.
Apocalypse
1. the complete final destruction of the world, as described in the biblical book of Revelation.
2. an event involving destruction or damage on a catastrophic scale.
I was gonna say this, but you said it. Like really, no.
OP
OP
I have legit not noticed 1 thread about this subject (that I can remember)
The question is based off of speaking to my son about anime and why many of them have a cataclysmic undertone to them. In no way is this a pro nuke thread, thats a weird thing. Plus, "post-war" didnt seem to have enough context (or so I thought)
If most of the world is, then it's a bit meaningless as a descriptor, no?
I get where you're coming from OP but at the same time this can feel a bit like an insult to Hiroshima and Nagasaki. We have family in the area and a family home and it's a common response from people saying "is that ok? Is it safe there?" People are pretty ignorant of the state of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
On a lighter note, more people should visit. The Carp are the best Japanese baseball team (don't care what Giants fans say) and Hiroshima has the best okonomiyaki. Our personal favorite is あとむ Atomu (tongue in cheek "Atom") in the Okonomiyaki village (4th floor).
On a lighter note, more people should visit. The Carp are the best Japanese baseball team (don't care what Giants fans say) and Hiroshima has the best okonomiyaki. Our personal favorite is あとむ Atomu (tongue in cheek "Atom") in the Okonomiyaki village (4th floor).
Word. One of the reasons it is such a common theme in anime is because of the ongoing psychological effects the war/post-war period had on the country as a whole despite the at least financial/manufacturing recovery that was made.
One thing people often talk about in Japan is the Kobe earthquake in 1995. People in the West barely remember it, but in Japan they remember the 17 of January every year.
One wonders if the US will do something to commemorate the deaths of Corona.
No because we have to detail why we are in such a state and what lead to it. Shit, given enough time we could probably map why most of our problems rn are due to the mishandling of post-WW2
- Status