There were reports that many of the photographs which China and South Korea once used as proof photos for things like atrocities by the Japanese army were actually photos from Japan’s internal wars such as the Seinan War and the Boshin War…
There used to be talk that many of the photos which China and South Korea once used as documentary proof photos of, for example, atrocities by the Japanese military were actually photos from Japan’s domestic civil wars like the Seinan War (the Satsuma Rebellion, 1877) and the Boshin War (civil war of 1868–69), but that too has now been made into something that “never happened.” ○ There are many opinions saying that, up through 2024 when Emperor Kazan was featured in a Taiga drama (NHK’s yearlong historical series), they had never heard of him being taken up, not once. He was absolutely never in history textbooks either, which is unnatural given that, in a sense, he was the emperor who became the trigger for Fujiwara no Michinaga’s appointment as regent, and so you’d think he’d easily show up in textbooks. According to one theory, from the Meiji era through the Showa era, this emperor was treated as a fictitious (nonexistent) emperor concocted to degrade the authority of the throne. In the Meiji period, all 33 temples of the Saigoku Kannon Pilgrimage related to the Retired Emperor Kazan (also called a Dharma Emperor) were thoroughly destroyed root and branch by the hand of the government, and monks of Tendai and other sects who protested were sent to Hokkaido without trial and made to work until death together with samurai-class prisoners in the Abashiri region (in old Abashiri-type movies, there are monks who worked alongside samurai prisoners, and when those prisoners died in prison the monks chanted sutras for their repose and then were beaten with sticks by the guards; there is a claim that this was a symbolic scene of that type of film), and even after the war the Imperial Household Agency’s view was “he did exist, but in reality he did not accede to the throne,” so he was an emperor whose existence was erased, and in a sense that was famous. People even used to judge whether someone was a net right-winger based on whether they acknowledged the existence of…
This case is part of the Mandela Effect case database based on "The Window of Opportunity: A Guidepost to the Mandela Effect — The Ultra-Secret X-Files" by Aoyama Takuto.