re: #318 electrotek

Agreed. Different reasons for sure. The Japanese right wax poetics over the supposedly glory days of imperial Japan and wish to recreate it once more.

Reminds me of Londo Mollari on Bab5:

“How many Centauri does it take to screw in a lightbulb? .. Just one, but in the great old days of the Republic hundreds of servants would change a thousand lightbulbs at our slightest whim!!”