Since the end of World War II, Japan has adopted a pacifist doctrine that prohibits the country from having an active army, maintaining only a national guard, and that severely restricts its ability to produce and export lethal weapons. In 2026, the Japanese government proposed loosening these restrictions, allowing the manufacture and export of lethal defense equipment for military purposes, rather than exporting only components. The sector has investments and partnerships between the State and private companies.

r/AmITheAsshole (AITA) is a Reddit community with over 22 million members where users post descriptions of personal conflicts and ask whether they behaved wrongly. The community votes: 'YTA' (You're The Asshole), 'NTA' (Not The Asshole), 'ESH' (Everyone Sucks Here), 'NAH' (No Assholes Here), or 'INFO' (more information needed). The post with the highest-voted verdict receives a flair that becomes the community's official judgment. Posts frequently receive thousands of votes and hundreds of comments. The community has developed extensive informal norms about what constitutes 'asshole behavior,' and verdicts are frequently cited by posters in their real-life conflicts.

The commodification of emotions refers to the process in which human emotional experiences are turned into products that can be packaged, marketed, and monetized systematically by the music industry. This is reflected in practices such as categorizing music by mood as a basis for consumption (for example, playlists like "Sad Songs," "Rage Beats," "Heartbreak Anthems"), trends in which artists’ personal narratives and emotional vulnerability become central elements in marketing musical works, and streaming platform systems that use listeners’ emotional and behavioral data in their recommendation algorithms.

Infoslide: You are a young impoverished Catholic woman in Cork during the height of the Great Famine. You are unsure whether your family is alive or dead. You are offered shelter, food and security by Protestant aid workers, under the condition that you convert to Protestantism. Doing so is often referred to as "taking the soup".

It is the beginning of the 18th century, and piracy is at its peak and most profitable. The ships are considered to be a more egalitarian place than most societies, but the pirates have begun to be sealocked due to an increasing number of ransoms on pirates' heads once they reach land.