What time is it? Watches and horology

A friend described it as “a bit Reich-y”.

The Japanese seem to like a bit of blackletter, and it probably is the German WWII influence, not that they’d admit it. When I was there many years ago I even spotted some Japanese kana that had been rendered like blackletter pen strokes, super weird but looked cool.

I’d just be wary of equating blackletter with the nazi regime just because you see it everywhere in those films - it was simply the predominant type style in that part of the world for a very long period of time, over 500 years. It’s true that it was a bit long in the tooth by the 1930s and Hitler actively discouraged the more modern type styles and favoured the old fashioned blackletter for nostalgic / patriotic purposes, but it’s not synonymous by any means.