# Reconciling Imperial Japan's Reverence for Beauty and Harmony and Its Internal/External Violence

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**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [November 8, 2021, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reconciling-imperial-japans-reverence-for-beauty-and-harmony-and-its-internal-external-violence/953998 "2021-11-08T19:29:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\
**Post date:** [November 17, 2021, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reconciling-imperial-japans-reverence-for-beauty-and-harmony-and-its-internal-external-violence/953998/21 "2021-11-17T17:45:23Z")

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> [@FrenchDunadan](#):
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> The canola flowers, the Moon is in the eastern sky, The Sun is in the western sky.

Rape flowers, canola is from the 1970s.

> [@Dewey\_Finn](#):
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> From _The Third Man_ , “In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.”

They just exported their violence in mercenary armies. Plus all the religious wars.

Plus their worst contribution to mankind, Nestle.

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**Author:** ![KarlGauss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/karlgauss/32/3713_2.png) [@KarlGauss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarlGauss)\
**Post date:** [November 22, 2021, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reconciling-imperial-japans-reverence-for-beauty-and-harmony-and-its-internal-external-violence/953998/22 "2021-11-22T00:06:54Z")

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[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/D6llaZefJDc/maxresdefault.jpg "The Producers -- Hitler...there was a painter") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6llaZefJDc)

> [@Velocity](#):
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> Hitler was genocidal, yet made nice paintings.

Two coats!!

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