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川上信 (Shin Kawakami)🇯🇵🇨🇳🇺🇸

@nkfinity.bsky.social
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Japanese/Chinese ハーフ living in the USA 大田区🇯🇵 X 辽宁🇨🇳 X SF Bay Area🇺🇸 Has a Japanese soul, an American brain, and a Chinese stomach. Born in Japan, roots for Japan in the Olympics🇯🇵🎌🇯🇵 Somewhat of an Japan Knower. Loves history. Radical Qing monarchist?

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川上信 (Shin Kawakami)🇯🇵🇨🇳🇺🇸 @nkfinity.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
In the late Qing, the imperial Aisin Gioro family codified a practice where all children of the same generation would receive the same first Chinese character, which makes the names look very repetitive. Zaifeng (Puyi's father)'s generation was 載, while Puyi's generation was 溥 (Puyi, Pujie)
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川上信 (Shin Kawakami)🇯🇵🇨🇳🇺🇸 @nkfinity.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Awwwwwwwwwwwwww yisssssssssss
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川上信 (Shin Kawakami)🇯🇵🇨🇳🇺🇸 @nkfinity.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Saw a post on Reddit how medical peasants have it better than modern ones because “inflation didn’t exist back then” Very peak Reddit because how does someone have this much confidence to state something so absolutely wrong.
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川上信 (Shin Kawakami)🇯🇵🇨🇳🇺🇸 @nkfinity.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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川上信 (Shin Kawakami)🇯🇵🇨🇳🇺🇸 @nkfinity.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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川上信 (Shin Kawakami)🇯🇵🇨🇳🇺🇸 @nkfinity.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Somehow, the Tang Dynasty has appeared in the 3 kingdoms...!
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川上信 (Shin Kawakami)🇯🇵🇨🇳🇺🇸 @nkfinity.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Gah, image version.
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川上信 (Shin Kawakami)🇯🇵🇨🇳🇺🇸 @nkfinity.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Iran genuinely has a better strategical endgame (regime change) and the US doesn’t. US is straight up gonna lose!
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川上信 (Shin Kawakami)🇯🇵🇨🇳🇺🇸 @nkfinity.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Evergreen meme.
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川上信 (Shin Kawakami)🇯🇵🇨🇳🇺🇸 @nkfinity.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Since we just had a big Qing dynast discourse, I feel so tempted/inspired to do mini-threads on key figures of the Ming-Qing transition because I'm literally in the middle of reading through it all right now lol.
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川上信 (Shin Kawakami)🇯🇵🇨🇳🇺🇸 @nkfinity.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Dude I’m enjoying a beer at the airport I ain’t got time for Bsky arguments.
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川上信 (Shin Kawakami)🇯🇵🇨🇳🇺🇸 @nkfinity.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Whenever I see a “China isn’t imperialist” post I just feel bad for the Qing dynasty. Sorry bestie, you’re not good enough.
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川上信 (Shin Kawakami)🇯🇵🇨🇳🇺🇸 @nkfinity.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Aaanyways, current mood. (And yes yes as always, I'm also partly guilty of the latter.)
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川上信 (Shin Kawakami)🇯🇵🇨🇳🇺🇸 @nkfinity.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
By the Gods, this is soooooooo cooooool.
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川上信 (Shin Kawakami)🇯🇵🇨🇳🇺🇸 @nkfinity.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Mine's gotta be the Aum Shinrikyo Sarin Gas attacks. I remember that entire day so clearly.
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川上信 (Shin Kawakami)🇯🇵🇨🇳🇺🇸 @nkfinity.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
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川上信 (Shin Kawakami)🇯🇵🇨🇳🇺🇸 @nkfinity.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I'm basically using it to help me write biographies for the RTKXI created characters for my upcoming Ming/Qing transition playthrough. Is it earth-shatteringly important? No I can easily play without these bios, but filling them in adds so much more...SPICE to the playthrough.
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川上信 (Shin Kawakami)🇯🇵🇨🇳🇺🇸 @nkfinity.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Me when Purdy throws TDs Me when I realize my opponent has Deebo.
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川上信 (Shin Kawakami)🇯🇵🇨🇳🇺🇸 @nkfinity.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Tho Kokusai does use “Tsurugi” as a product name and I think it’s lame/cringe as hell. (But this is more Japanese company selling to non-Japanese companies)
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川上信 (Shin Kawakami)🇯🇵🇨🇳🇺🇸 @nkfinity.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
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川上信 (Shin Kawakami)🇯🇵🇨🇳🇺🇸 @nkfinity.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
To my knowledge Men-Bei Ramen in San Jose is the only ramen place in the Bay Area that serves Chuuka-style ramen and not like Tonkotsu/Shoyu like the billions of other ramen places here. Worth a visit while the owners are still around before they retire!
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川上信 (Shin Kawakami)🇯🇵🇨🇳🇺🇸 @nkfinity.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Not enough 根性 I suppose.
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川上信 (Shin Kawakami)🇯🇵🇨🇳🇺🇸 @nkfinity.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
These three men. The GOAT Qing dynasty period drama (this or 康熙帝国)
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川上信 (Shin Kawakami)🇯🇵🇨🇳🇺🇸 @nkfinity.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
This is solid and would be definitely my post-immigration to America answer. My pre-immigration answer would be however…
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川上信 (Shin Kawakami)🇯🇵🇨🇳🇺🇸 @nkfinity.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I saw this map of fertility in China by province and one thing that jumps out to me is the rich Southern locations like Chongqing and Shenzhen apparently have higher rates that the less developed, poorer Northeast and I wonder why, because it’s generally the opposite trend.
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川上信 (Shin Kawakami)🇯🇵🇨🇳🇺🇸 @nkfinity.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
QTP with the title screen that’s iconic to you! Still my absolute favorite Total War after all these years.
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川上信 (Shin Kawakami)🇯🇵🇨🇳🇺🇸 @nkfinity.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
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川上信 (Shin Kawakami)🇯🇵🇨🇳🇺🇸 @nkfinity.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
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川上信 (Shin Kawakami)🇯🇵🇨🇳🇺🇸 @nkfinity.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Normalize making China the center of the world again 😤
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川上信 (Shin Kawakami)🇯🇵🇨🇳🇺🇸 @nkfinity.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Sorry, wanna get in my Steppe high horse here and complain about how much I hated GRRM’s lazy portrayal of the Dothraki. Actual nomadic tribes were a LOT more sophisticated! They regularly traded with settled society, had intricate hierarchies, and also actually wore armor…
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川上信 (Shin Kawakami)🇯🇵🇨🇳🇺🇸 @nkfinity.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
The Soga-Mononobe conflicts and the rise of Buddhism in Japan is an under-told part of Japanese history in the West and barely known there. Soga clan’s victory leading to Buddhism becoming the state-sponsored religion of Japan, similarly to Constantine’s victory leading to Roman Christendom.
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川上信 (Shin Kawakami)🇯🇵🇨🇳🇺🇸 @nkfinity.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Sharon controlling Bsky discourse.
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川上信 (Shin Kawakami)🇯🇵🇨🇳🇺🇸 @nkfinity.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Qing dynasty is sad that no one recognizes its glorious Imperial conquests which helped set the boundaries of modern China.
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川上信 (Shin Kawakami)🇯🇵🇨🇳🇺🇸 @nkfinity.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
I’m a big SF Giants fan. Glad they’re doing so well this season. That’s not the SF Giants you say? Details details. Who cares!
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川上信 (Shin Kawakami)🇯🇵🇨🇳🇺🇸 @nkfinity.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
This is probably my 4yr old’s favorite movie. Time to fire it up again in Tim Curry’s honor…
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川上信 (Shin Kawakami)🇯🇵🇨🇳🇺🇸 @nkfinity.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Anyways, American elites have demonstrated themselves as being completely stupid, a big part of why we’re in this mess.
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川上信 (Shin Kawakami)🇯🇵🇨🇳🇺🇸 @nkfinity.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Ah I knew there was a reason why we vibe.
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川上信 (Shin Kawakami)🇯🇵🇨🇳🇺🇸 @nkfinity.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Japanese people when I pronounce UFO “You Eff Oh” instead of “You Foh”
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川上信 (Shin Kawakami)🇯🇵🇨🇳🇺🇸 @nkfinity.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
@jordantcarlson.bsky.social just saw this absolute affront against Fukuoka on Reddit, and WOT?!?!? ゴマ鯖、モツ鍋、一蘭ラーメン, all the general delicious seafood. This opinion is straight-up heretical!
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川上信 (Shin Kawakami)🇯🇵🇨🇳🇺🇸 @nkfinity.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
I see a lot of sentiment like this and I totally get it from non-Japanese speakers trying to learn Japanese, But I have kids and I read them hiragana-only books and those are legit harder for me to read/comprehend quickly than stuff with kanji. Kanji makes communication more dense and efficient..
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川上信 (Shin Kawakami)🇯🇵🇨🇳🇺🇸 @nkfinity.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Don’t know why there’s such a controversy over black people in The Odyssey. The Muses were my favorite part in another Greek movie (Hercules)!
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川上信 (Shin Kawakami)🇯🇵🇨🇳🇺🇸 @nkfinity.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
In similar vein gunpowder warfare in East Asia is basically nonexistent in Western historiography but it involves a loooot of armored musketeers!
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川上信 (Shin Kawakami)🇯🇵🇨🇳🇺🇸 @nkfinity.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Russo-Japanese war mentioned?!?!?
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川上信 (Shin Kawakami)🇯🇵🇨🇳🇺🇸 @nkfinity.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Exact same energy.
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川上信 (Shin Kawakami)🇯🇵🇨🇳🇺🇸 @nkfinity.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Progressives please spend money on TV ads challenge: impossible.
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川上信 (Shin Kawakami)🇯🇵🇨🇳🇺🇸 @nkfinity.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
I’m discovering now Hong didn’t spend on TV ads and boy.
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川上信 (Shin Kawakami)🇯🇵🇨🇳🇺🇸 @nkfinity.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Based on the law of Korean Presidents Never Have a Good Ending, he’s gonna get charged for money laundering or something. (But good for him for having a peaceful retirement tho)
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川上信 (Shin Kawakami)🇯🇵🇨🇳🇺🇸 @nkfinity.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Which makes Tang Taizong and Wei Zheng such a unique pair in the history of autocrats, one where the Emperor welcomed open criticism and encouraged it. static.wixstatic.com/media/10b072...
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川上信 (Shin Kawakami)🇯🇵🇨🇳🇺🇸 @nkfinity.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Some things just never change.
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川上信 (Shin Kawakami)🇯🇵🇨🇳🇺🇸 @nkfinity.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
He’ll be British Liu Bei.
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