The Japanese are the gods of commitment. I recall reading the self-mummifying priests, and other stuff that I don't recall, and boy, thats cool and scary. 7 centuries of continuous recording of the same event.
Lying about a freezing lake? What do the monks gain by falsifying those records?
Depends on their motives. Depicting the world as chaotic or orderly can allow you to manipulate people's fears and hopes.
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The bomb enabled communism to take over most of East Asia.
The bomb is the reason why half the world lived under communist dictatorships.
The war could have ended via an armistice, if only America was willing to negotiate one, but no, they wanted to go all in.
After the war, Korea was worse off for decades. We think of "South Korea" as an advanced nation like Japan, but actually South Korea was ruled by a brutal military dictatorship not different from third world countries (there was a story about that just a few days ago).
Right, it was the bomb and not the whole anti-war 60s movement, which led to US disengagement from SE Asia at large.
In any case, you didn't really see the rise of Japanese militarism until after the Meiji Restoration in 1868. The atrocities that took place before and during WWII can't really be connected to a remote monastery and its priests who started recording this data seven centuries beforehand.