First off, I am a Korean and so my source for this question is just word of mouth.

From what I gathered, a lot of Korean boys were drafted into the Imperial Japanese army either by force or willingly. Of many such instances, the claim is that some of those kids were forced onto Kamikaze planes that attacked places like Pearl Harbour. That, Kamikaze is nothing like the glorified war heroics that Japanese media make it out to be.

The saying goes these people are enshrined in the Yasukuni Shrine against the families' wishes to bury them back home.

How accurate is this claim, and how much of it made up to muddy the fact that a lot of Korean people did willingly join the Imperial armed forces?

I may be getting into the territory of conspiracy theories here, but I thought this was a good subreddit to ask my question.

Part of my high school education was under a Russian school system where History of Russia was mandatory. The system taught us that the Russian Revolutions of 1917 were the culmination of regular Russian folk, feeling dissatisfied with centuries of unfair treatment, decided to take matters into their own hands and build a just society. Whether it was just or not is another issue. I am thinking there is an alternate, truer explanation to the whole series of events. What if a small group of people led by Lenin decided to overthrow the government and decided to wash the minds of Russian people? This would include spreading various propaganda and control the whole information systems of the time. And rewrite history saying that this was what the Russian people wanted. What if in reality, the masses, the Russian people were completely fine living under the old regime?

Native Americans, The Aztecs, African tribes, Europeans, the Chinese.. almost every single ancient civilization has some history with this staple weapon, but its a somewhat complex weapon. The design and function of the bow and arrow is universally the same no matter what ancient tribe you look at, and even some un-contacted tribes use bows that look exactly like ones you would find elsewhere.

Why is the bow such a universally found tool?

This is going to be series of questions based on the answers of the previous ones if thats all right.

Question No.1: So why was France included in the Congress of Vienna, being a defeated power and all.

Would the Yanks fight the Brits? Would the Canucks duke it out with the Aussies? How often would this happen?

I was wondering if this path would work. I'm studying history as an undergrad and I have interests in museum work, education, and research. I plan on looking for museum work once I finish up my undergrad and then work toward an MA in museum studies. If after doing museum work I wanted to turn to education or research would having an MA in museum studies allow me to get a doctorate in a historical field or would I have to have gotten an MA in history?

With the phalanx having become so widespread due to it's proven success, did the legion system spread as well? I can't find anything on the matter, but surely one would think with Rome making short work of the Greek phalanxes, the focus would shift from the phalanx to the legion. I remember reading somewhere about Seleucids that fought in the Roman style, but I also can't find anything regarding it.

Maybe at some point they switched to BC/AD, but what did they use before that? For example, what year, according to Roman timekeeping, was Julius Caesar killed?

Seems like a natural target for a strike with all of that metal. Especially if mounted. If there are, what was the effect upon the scenario he was in (e.g., battle)?

EDIT: Thanks for the Faraday cage answers, especially ArcAttack playing Iron Man, very cool. I understand the concept and my question wasn't necessarily asking whether it killed the armor-bearer, but more has it happened and what effect it had on the situation he was in. Thanks also for the clarification that metal doesn't attract lightning. However the fact that a knight was usually mounted could potentially make him the highest object in the field. Especially if he's carrying a lance or a banner.

What instrument did Romans use to shave with, and did it change over time?

My guess is it would mostly be a clash between Protestant and Catholic or Christian and native religions.

Did Protestants ever try to stomp out Catholics. Vice versa?

Follow up: Were Catholics upset about the massive influx of Protestants?

Where there are not many religious conflicts at all?

I just thought I would ask in case somebody knows, thank you!

At what point did the Republican party stop being about progressive ideas, like ending slavery and thwarting monopolistic robber barons, and start being the conservative party that we know today? Would Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt recognize the Republican party of today as their own?

I fear that as an add-on this might infringe the 20 year rule slightly (and if so, please ignore), but how did the contemporary reaction compare to the reminiscence of later generations? I've met many people who grew up with Powell and remember him fondly and talk of this speech as though it shed a great bright light on something worth revealing, but was it not a bit of an unpopular if not offensive approach to race and political relations at the time? Thank you.

It would seem to me that a larger majority of Muslims / people of Middle Eastern decent are named Muhammad while fewer Christians / people from christian nations are named with direct namesake from Jesus Christ, or people from other religions named directly after their prophet. Is this perception correct, and if so is their a historical reason for it?

I was trying to find a map of the various papal states in the 1800s, but when I started searching, I found that not only could I not find them, I couldn't find them from ANY time period, or even a list of them! On every map I've found, they're just collectively labelled "Papal States"

What gives?

Surnames like Lo Castro, Zingales, Lo Cascio are quite common there.

Why there's so many Sicilians with those surnames, but very few with Greek influenced ones. Given that the Greeks were on the island for more than 2,000 years, and the Greek migration from Asia Minor to Sicily in Byzantine times.