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Japan Is Building Cardboard Suicide Drones
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this post was submitted on 30 Apr 2026
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This is for strictly mildly interesting material. If it's too interesting, it doesn't belong. If it's not interesting, it doesn't belong.
This is obviously an objective criteria, so the mods are always right. Or maybe mildly right? Ahh.. what do we know?
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Good to have that independently confirmed
yeah sorry, I sounded like a dick there.
It's just that because Japanese has so many homonyms, the number of characters used (therefore number of syllables) plays an important role when you make a clever pun. Also, kamikaze is just the devine wind, and we associate the suicide attacks with the word tokkoutai, especially in WWII Pacific Theatre, or kesshitai in general. So while origami-kaze sounds awesome in English, it doesn't work that well in English. Hope that makes sense!
You're good lol, I just never learned enough Japanese - about a year in high school, two decades ago - to have a good response other than "you're probably right!"