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by pirate787 311 days ago
That may be the greatest understatement ever written!
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the English translation is. In Japanese its not surprising to talk in this way.
Hirohito spoke in a very very rare way that very few humans speak. It took years of a friend who got a masters in 'Peace and conflict studies' to get me to understand, and in the decade since, and after reading Hirohito's book it still takes a significant intellectual effort to distinguish the listening.
Beat me to it. That's exactly what I was going to say