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Now I don’t want to scare you, little sparrow, but do not believe the people who tell you monsters aren’t real. Monsters are very real, they are alive and well, and they often hide in plain sight.

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But then some Americans decided that a soccer match was an appropriate reason to bring up the death and destruction of World War II, including calling the match “payback” for the Japanese attack on America’s Pearl Harbor. Sounds too stupid to be real? Yeah, that’s what I thought too.

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Nicknamed “The Photographer of Death,” Kuniaki Kimura took photographs of over 300 executions and is said to have asked executioners to hold their poses a number of times before finally allowing them to end the prisoners’ lives.