Naturally, the title led most popular Japanese influencers to presume it was a prank.

The Americans, sending their army to the South Pole? Taking over the Showa research base and torturing their research crew?

Was that even possible, when Japan-US relations were stronger than a lot of other alliances between countries?

Moreover, Japan had always deferred to US leadership with humility, and big-brother worshiped to the point that they commemorate Matthew Perry, who invaded their own country an