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Recently, on a social media platform known as X, a feature was implemented that automatically translates posts written in languages other than the user’s own and displays them in algorithm-generated suggestions. Users seem to be calling this the “Tower of Babel.” Since Japanese is my first language, my primary concern here is how Japanese users—most of whom are, so to speak, Japanese citizens—are perceived by users of other languages. And as it turned out, the answers to that question were largely what I expected. As I mentioned in my first post here, I am a Japanese citizen, but I detest the nation of Japan and its people. I feel no sense of belonging to them. Instead, what I do feel is a sense of responsibility for the immense crimes of aggression and tyranny that this country has inflicted upon the peoples of neighboring nations—not only in the past but continuing to the present day. Therefore my expectation was that the vast aspects of the Japanese peop...