Every continent with people had some culture that took scalps.
If you expand that to any trophy taking… Well, the game knuckle bones might have started with sheep bones, but soldiers throughout the ages have played it with bones from humans.
All that said, the European Colonizers did pay bounties on scalps of anyone with native seeming hair and skin color.
It’s not unique to Japan but the whole thing still causes some pretty reasonable animosity between China and Japan and Korea and Japan and that’s sorta sidestepping the horrors of Japanese occupation of Korea.
Yeah, the newly formed CIA of the postwar era actually pulled the man who signed the order for the attack on Pearl Harbor out of prison, to put him in charge of Japan’s conservative party, and with a heavy hand on the scales the leader of the country. All to fight off a group that wanted to unionize Japan’s workers so that they didn’t have to work themselves to death.
Basically everyone begged the CIA not to do this, and yet they did. Because the first leader of the CIA had been personal friends with several prominent Nazis, and had reportedly cried when America entered WW2 against the Nazis. The other Dulles brother wasn’t any better of a person.
Every continent with people had some culture that took scalps.
If you expand that to any trophy taking… Well, the game knuckle bones might have started with sheep bones, but soldiers throughout the ages have played it with bones from humans.
All that said, the European Colonizers did pay bounties on scalps of anyone with native seeming hair and skin color.
Japan has places like nose Hill or ear temple.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mimizuka
wtf 😬
It’s not unique to Japan but the whole thing still causes some pretty reasonable animosity between China and Japan and Korea and Japan and that’s sorta sidestepping the horrors of Japanese occupation of Korea.
Yeah, the newly formed CIA of the postwar era actually pulled the man who signed the order for the attack on Pearl Harbor out of prison, to put him in charge of Japan’s conservative party, and with a heavy hand on the scales the leader of the country. All to fight off a group that wanted to unionize Japan’s workers so that they didn’t have to work themselves to death.
Basically everyone begged the CIA not to do this, and yet they did. Because the first leader of the CIA had been personal friends with several prominent Nazis, and had reportedly cried when America entered WW2 against the Nazis. The other Dulles brother wasn’t any better of a person.