The most intesting thing I've heard about in the last few days was the fact that the US helped rebuild Germany and Japan after WWII. I've never really thought about it, but Japan is really high tech and modern and it has a lot of traditions but at the same time everything seems so futuristic. All of the best games that are coming out are from Japan and a lot of other awesome things too--fashion, automobiles, books and stories and art, architechtural structures, computers, programs, innovations... all sorts of things. It never occurred to me that once upon a time, two atomic bombs had been dropped on this organized, efficient, and well-maintained country. Maybe this was from the help of the US. How did they build Japan into one of the most technologically advanced and booming economic/socialistic country?
I don't know all that much about modern Germany, but I hear it's a beautiful place. I wonder how the US fixed it up after defeating Hitler and practically destroying the whole place? I know they have some cars, and some really smart people too... and I hear they have good relations with the US and Japan now. I don't know the specifics of the relations after the war and in the current year, though.
Look at all that beautiful scenery and architechture (from Germany)... how is it so pristine now, when it was probably demolished during the war?
Sources: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germany
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