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>>6742684

Though Japanese history might suggest otherwise, it's not as difficult as it sounds. Throughout history, there have been many regions of the world where humans and Youkai lived peacefully.

Japan's history with Youkai has been rather saddening. Nobody quite knows who started it; humans claimed that Youkai were eating them, while Youkai claim that it was a sort of "blood libel" accusation with no real merit. Either way, eventually they became so hostile in some areas that Youkai actually did start eating humans, and humans started killing Youkai. And it went from there...

Of course, in Gensokyo, a few very powerful Youkai ensure that this doesn't happen. And so far, it seems that everyone is basically fine with it. There have been incidents, of course, but by and large most of the human hostility towards Youkai has disappeared as the older generations died off.