Aggression and imperialism are things people tend to associate with Northern European culture only. We feel that dark legacy right down to the most isolated pockets of reservation housing communities. Other empires have attempted to expand and invade, the Mongols into Europe and the Middle East, the Muslims into the Balkans and Spain, the Japanese into China and the South Pacific. These invasions involved death and violence on a scale equal to any human historical aggression, and in the case of Imperial Japan, exceeded. But the Japanese are not known around the world for their barbarism and cruelty, despite the...

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