My absurd experiences in North America over the years

After Fang Li and Qin Ming left, Li Fu stood on the riverbank without going back immediately.

The sun had completely set, and the light on the river surface changed from gold to dark gray. The sound of the flowing water was amplified in the evening, carrying a continuous, low rumble.

He was thinking that perhaps it was time to use his trump card.

It was late at night, and Ivanka was already asleep, but the light in her study was still on.

Li Fu is planning the most lethal counterattack.

When the Japanese started jumping around on the right wing, he was already preparing to follow Musk's example and take drastic measures against these beasts.

Three or four months passed, and the time was ripe.

During this period, the Google Translate feature was developed and tested in March. Li Fu quickly pushed Twitter to cooperate with it.

The technical integration has now been completed.

The following morning, a brief update appeared on Twitter's official website: "To improve users' cross-language communication experience, the platform has partnered with Google Translate. Starting today, some users will be able to view automatically generated English subtitles below tweets."

This update was not heavily promoted, there were no notifications, and no special press conference was held.

However, the effect was explosive.

Twitter experienced explosive growth after the financial crisis, and by June or July of 2010, the original timeline already had around 130 million users.

During the most difficult time for the founding team, Li Fu spent 5 million yuan to purchase their original shares, providing the company with ample funding and accelerating the pace of technology iteration, service optimization, and user promotion.

It is now a social platform giant with 200 million users.

The new feature didn't attract much attention at first because some tweets had a new "View Translation" button in the bottom right corner, and many people weren't in the habit of clicking it.

Some people clicked on it and saw an English translation pop up from the side of the page. It had the awkwardness that Google Translate was known for, with unnatural word choice and occasional grammatical distortions. They didn't have the patience to read it all.

However, the technology was quickly optimized, and the translation could be viewed directly without clicking a button. Although the translated English still had some grammatical issues, it was much smoother.

Tweets containing Japanese right-wing rhetoric that circulated only within the Japanese-speaking community were pushed to the top of the trending list through big data analytics.

At first, only a few people would take screenshots and then caption them: "So this is how high-profile and shameless they are in the Japanese-speaking world."

The words in the screenshots were much more direct than the mild tone usually seen on English Twitter, and they made no attempt to hide words like occupation, massacre, and tampering.

Similar tweets then began to appear in large numbers.

Even some voters who support the democratic left are starting to be shocked. Why can they be so shameless and so self-righteous, not even bothering to make a little attempt to cover it up?

In just one or two days, the sentiment on Twitter completely changed.

It is not that America is without genuine anti-war activists, genuine proletarian fighters, or genuinely conscientious ordinary people; they are simply constrained by various conditions.

Now the information cocoon has been completely shattered, and the truth has been revealed to the world.

The wave of public opinion quickly spread from Twitter to other social media platforms, such as Facebook, Reddit, and YouTube.

Some people copied screenshots, some compiled translations, and some started organizing timelines.

The scope of the discussion has long since extended beyond Twitter itself.

In Tokyo, thousands of miles away, the lights in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs building shone brightly all night.

The diplomat on duty stared at the tweets translated into English on the screen. The content was hard to look at, some of the wording was extremely harsh, and the comment section was in an uproar.

The phone kept ringing and I kept making calls, but I couldn't find a suitable way to respond.

The press officer of the Japanese embassy in the United States was cornered in a corridor by reporters who asked him for his opinion on the translated content on Twitter.

He tried to evade the questions, but the reporters clearly weren't going to let him leave easily. By the time he finally found a way out, his evasive and evasive behavior had already been featured on the evening news.

As the storm of public opinion brewed, it was further fueled by two academic papers.

The Department of History at the University of California, Berkeley, published a research paper on the treatment of Japanese prisoners of war during World War II, citing original Japanese sources that had not been translated into English before.

The list he provided only concerned Allied prisoners of war.

Following the Philippine campaign in 1942, approximately 7.8 American and Filipino prisoners of war were forcibly transported and marched about 120 kilometers under conditions of high temperatures, lack of water and food, and indiscriminate killings by the Japanese army.

Ultimately, it resulted in the deaths of approximately 1.5 people.

In Thailand and Burma, the Japanese army forced approximately 6 Allied prisoners of war and 20 Asian laborers to work under harsh conditions in order to build a 415-kilometer-long railway.

More than 1.2 Allied prisoners of war and 9 laborers died amid disease, hunger, abuse and bombing.

According to the paper's statistics, the mortality rate at the Japanese army's "Fengtian Allied POW Camp" in Shenyang was 13.3 times that of the German POW camps in Europe.

Prisoners of war often suffered from hunger, beatings, and forced labor in the camps. Torture and killing were also common occurrences, including beheading, watering and trampling, stabbing, and so on.

They also forced prisoners of war to watch the torture and killing process, causing many prisoners of war to suffer psychological breakdowns.

Once published, the paper was quickly cited by newspapers such as the Los Angeles Times, causing a public uproar.

Following this, a doctoral student at Stanford University released an investigative report on civilian casualties across Asia, drawing data from archives in multiple countries, and reaching clear and startling conclusions.

Among the most notable incidents, besides Nanjing, are the 100,000 deaths in Manila, the systematic purge of 50,000 civilians in Singapore, and the massacre and forced suicide of over 200,000 civilians in Okinawa.

In addition, the Japanese army carried out large-scale massacres in more than 100 places, including Alexandra Hospital in Malaya, Cape Chompong in Thailand, the Manya Islands in the Dutch East Indies, Kudarach in Sumatra, and Gadar Bas in Java, resulting in more than 700 million casualties.

These two papers caused quite a stir in the academic community and, after being interpreted by the media, quickly entered the public domain.

The conclusions in the paper corroborate the translated comments on Twitter.

The focus of public attention is no longer just on what they say, but on whether they actually did it.

This series of events caused Japan's international image to collapse instantly, shocking many Western netizens who had a favorable impression of Japan.

A large number of netizens created memes to satirize the Japanese, whose image on Twitter and the outside world is usually related to anime. As a result, the collapse of the information cocoon exposed that the cruelty of a large number of right-wing elements far exceeded that of German art students.

The image projects that the Japanese government, conglomerates, and right-wing elements have built over the years through money and public opinion crumble at the first touch of algorithms.

Many official residences in Tokyo went from silence to impotent rage, condemning Ohashi Naoki for provoking Li Fu, this "jinx"!