the worst Japanese food I ever had was in Narita airport
if I were the president of Japan I would evict all the shitty restaraunts in Narita airport and replace them with amazing Japanese food that is subsidized by the tourism bureau to give travelers a good first impression of Japanese cuisine instead of truck-stop tier garbage. The main international airport of a country should be as impressive as possible.
all countries should be doing this tbh. it will pay for itself in tourism dollars.
its spooky how everyone at work is sick and then I go online and all the yutubers I watch are sick too. makes me feel like the prologue of some zombie movie
>So Stacey asked me “Why don’t you Japanese just follow (adjust to, do) what we do in the UK?”, and I returned “Why don’t you British people just do what we Japanese do since we are more civilised and have lower crime rate?”
@augustus >Although the Zhengtong Emperor was a prisoner of the Mongols, he became a good friend to both Tayisung Khan Toghtoa Bukha (1416–1453) and his grand preceptor (taishi) Esen. Meanwhile, to calm the crisis at home, his younger brother Zhu Qiyu was installed as the Jingtai Emperor. This reduced the Zhengtong Emperor's imperial status and he was granted the title of Tàishàng Huángdi (emperor emeritus).
>Historians at the time, in an effort to avoid what is an obvious taboo of the country's head of state becoming a prisoner of war, referred to this chapter of Yingzong's life as the "Northern Hunt"
@augustus you should read more history on China, especially the Ming dynasty. it's very entertaining stuff. the trajectory of emperor quality is similar to most other notable long lasting empires. long lines of mediocrity or batshit crazy punctuated by a couple brilliant ones that extend the dynastys lifespan by a couple more decades so their descendants can fuck everything up again.
>Prior to the death of the Zhengde Emperor in early 1521, rumours about a mysterious group of creatures collectively called Dark Afflictions (Chinese: 黑眚; pinyin: Hēi Shěng) circulated the capital. Their attacks caused much unrest, because they randomly attacked people at night, causing wounds with their claws. The Minister for War asked the emperor to write an imperial edict proclaiming local security troops would arrest all those who frightened other people. The threat brought a sudden end to the spread of the stories.