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Anonymous03/13/26, 03:14No.18386243
If the Japanese copied so much stuff from the Chinese, why didn't they have eunuchs as well?
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Anon03/13/26, 03:18No.18386248
perfection can't be fully copied
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Anon03/13/26, 04:19No.18386316
Eunuchs come with their own set of problems
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Anon03/13/26, 04:41No.18386322
my understanding is
china and korea: neoconfucianism
japan: more buddhism influenced than other two for longer
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Anon03/13/26, 14:03No.18386762
They did have castration (of males and females) as a method of punishment in their law codes just like the Chinese.
Obviously can't say if that's the reason in particular, but they never made a system where doing it to yourself made sense. The point of eunuchs is simple. People who can do government-related work without having any chance of mixing with the royals and getting power through their bloodline.
Well in Japan, EVERYONE is (or claims to be) directly related to the royal family to hold any modicum of power. In such a system, the value of being related to the royal house is practically nill (everyone pretends to be and no one can tell), while at the same time if you are to hold any power at all, you yourself are already pretending to be related to them... so castrating oneself is just counter-productive "Oh yeah, I'm emeperor's cousin 10 times removed so let me cut my balls off just in case I spread emeperor's genes within emperor's family??"
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Anon03/14/26, 02:38No.18387853
They have blueprints for newhalf.
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Anon03/14/26, 19:01No.18388469
not even japan is as cruel as china.
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Anon03/14/26, 19:08No.18388474
they are all eunuchs
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Anon03/14/26, 19:18No.18388484
Japan mirrors Southern China while Korea and Northern China (not including steppe barbarians who they really hated) mirror each other
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Anon03/14/26, 21:26No.18388570
Japanese Shintō culture developed in Japan, independent of any outside influence.
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Anon03/14/26, 22:21No.18388632
The tl;dr is that the Chinese are unique in believing that there are no standards humans can be held to without also holding a gun to their head.