NEW - 🇮🇳 📊 🇯🇵 India’s Economy just overtook Japan’s to become the 4th Largest in the World

Just the beginning of Last Year Germany 🇩🇪 took Japan’s 3rd place spot.


Japan 😢
@damhistory

🎄Merry Christmas — and a Brief Transmission

💬 To all of you here on the channel,
🎅 ❄️ Wishing you a meaningful, peaceful Christmas season — wherever in the world you may be reading this from. I hope you’re able to find time to rest, reflect, and recharge.

✍️ I wanted to share a quick update: I’ll be stepping away from this channel for the foreseeable future.

🇯🇵 😀I’ve accepted a formal contract with Japan’s MoD — yes, that Ministry — and as part of the role, I’ll be operating under strict communications protocols. That means new devices, controlled networks, and (unfortunately) no personal social media until the assignment is complete.

🇯🇵 🚤This opportunity represents an important step in my career — professionally, japanese linguistically, and personally. Working in this space, in this country, with this level of responsibility… it’s not something I take lightly. That said, I am looking forward to the day I can share more about it. And I will — when I’m allowed.

👋Until then, consider this channel on temporary diplomatic leave. I’ll miss the thoughtful conversations, the humor, the curiosity, and the quiet chaos (not really quiet lol) this community brought into my daily routine.

🏝Take care of yourselves. Stay sharp. And if anyone asks where I went, just say I’ve “gone east.”

Yours Sincerely,
Ekner of Damned History 🫡