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====Flame War====

====Flame War====

Sometime in 2000, a flame war errupted over multiple inane topics, including the inappropriateness of people in the USA selling T-shirts with clan Kamon on them, the "inability" of westerners to "understand" the Japanese, and theories about the genetics of the line of Japanese emperors.  The war was spurred by two particularly bellicose forum goers, and in the resulting explosion most of the members were lost. Few remain today who remember the heady and wild early days of the forum.  Most current members joined in 2001 or later.

Although things started out solid, with very high quality discussions, sometime in 2000, a flame war errupted over multiple inane topics, including the inappropriateness of people in the USA selling T-shirts with clan Kamon on them, the "inability" of westerners to "understand" the Japanese, and theories about the possibility of intermarriage between related families within the line of Japanese emperors.  The war was spurred and aggrivated by two particularly bellicose forum goers, and in the resulting explosion most of the members were lost. Few remain today who remember the heady and wild early days of the forum.  Most current members joined in 2001 or later.

Unfortunately the forum strings related to the warfare of 2000 were eliminated, and thus lost to history.

Unfortunately the forum strings related to the warfare of 2000 were eliminated, and thus lost to history.