Like, if you want to talk about the internet becoming less of a reliable source of information as it popularizes, in college, minoring in a department that was one of the US’ real repositories of Japan knowledge, I learned things that weren’t widely treated in English-language academia and hadn’t been part of any US regime-promoted understanding of Japan, including

“the concept of Buddhism and ‘Shinto’ as distinct things dates to a suppression of monasteries that disempowered autonomous forces AND brought critical population knowledge under imperial authority”

and

“After the Opening of Japan around 100 students were sent to study in Europe, they not only brought back technical knowledge but were key to the successful Meiji Restoration plot to remake Japan along the lines of Prussia”

and at the time I remember being able to google things to support that point but less so every year since