While its great that they improved themselves, its a shame that they think they had to do it by sacrificing their culture and spirit by simply westernising. Western culture is hardly perfect either and both East and West had good ideas.
The first empire pretty much ended in 1045. But they got to rebuild and rise like a phoenix on science, motorcycles, compact cars, consumer electronis with a rep for reliability made using total quality management principles. The universal Japanese motorcycle killed off the tech leaders – the Brits – in.the 1970s.
Fun fact: those fact-finding missions spent the longest amount of time in Ogden Utah. They got snowed in while taking the train across the US. They spent about three weeks there.
US Civil War, Unification of Germany, and the Meiji Restoration in Japan are probably the 1-2-3 steps of the nation replacing the empire as the dominant political structure in the world.
Reminder to all commenters waxing enthusiastic abt the magnitude of their achvmt: if u blv IQs 2 b a reliable metric for "smart," they r the world's [1st or 3rd, depending whose #'s u blv] SMARTEST nation — nat'l avg IQ of 107. (In the US, we're at #29 or 30, w/an avg IQ of 97 to 100.) NEVER get against Japan — or China, for that matter.
The other reason Japan wanted an empire was because they also recognized all the Great Western Powers were either Industrializing or Industrialized. They looked around the Home Islands and discovered that they lacked any of the necessary resources in significant quantity, little coal or iron for steel, not enough farmland, miniscule amounts of oil, etc. So the only way for Japan to be a Sovereign Great Power was to build an empire that could supply Japanese Industries. Japan today is a Great Power, but it is not truly sovereign as it is reliant on the security relationship with the US to ensure resource and market access.
Western means having colonies and abusing them. Japan had colonies but allowed them to thrive independently as well. Japan is better than the west. A United States colony has people that have lost brain structure do to lack of food and are no longer considered human beings because the amount of abuse.
Warped history as usual to cloud Japan’s history of invasion of China and slaughter of over 22 million Chinese, and USA and England drug lords subjecting China to a century of humiliation,opium wars, plunder and burning of their summer palace.
Why is this person all of a sudden all over the place with these talks and lectures? Where has she been the past thirty years? Why now are there videos up the wazoo seemingly from nowhere with her confident assertions about all kinds of historical and geopolitical “facts” as if we’ve never heard any of this before?
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Make a youtube short without mentioning Bismarck challenge (impossible)
今、まったく同じ野心を持っているのは中国だ。台湾の次は沖縄、東南アジアの島々、そしてグアムにハワイ。中国は長期スパンでアメリカ人に対抗するための自由な海を手に入れようとしている。気をつけろ。
Japan learn the good and bad of westernization. The bad ones got them nuked to the ground.
Special classes for the president, Secretary of State, secretary, defense, and the director of national security
How did people this brilliant talk themselves into attacking Pearl Harbor? I don't get it.
The Japanese say, whoo, what if we invaded China too, we're on your team the west
While its great that they improved themselves, its a shame that they think they had to do it by sacrificing their culture and spirit by simply westernising. Western culture is hardly perfect either and both East and West had good ideas.
Im sure thats the tone they struck when they made the plan😂 "well I guess we're gonna have an empire"
And thus, mecha anime was born
The first empire pretty much ended in 1045. But they got to rebuild and rise like a phoenix on science, motorcycles, compact cars, consumer electronis with a rep for reliability made using total quality management principles. The universal Japanese motorcycle killed off the tech leaders – the Brits – in.the 1970s.
Well, this japanese empire idea ended with two nuclear bombs dropped in Japan.
Japan never became a superpower, they just become another american zionist pawn
And they were so fast. It's like you're on cheat code on Age of Empires game haha
Fun fact: those fact-finding missions spent the longest amount of time in Ogden Utah. They got snowed in while taking the train across the US. They spent about three weeks there.
US Civil War, Unification of Germany, and the Meiji Restoration in Japan are probably the 1-2-3 steps of the nation replacing the empire as the dominant political structure in the world.
This is what the Japanese are famous for, and the Chinese are following their way nowadays…❤
Reminder to all commenters waxing enthusiastic abt the magnitude of their achvmt: if u blv IQs 2 b a reliable metric for "smart," they r the world's [1st or 3rd, depending whose #'s u blv] SMARTEST nation — nat'l avg IQ of 107. (In the US, we're at #29 or 30, w/an avg IQ of 97 to 100.) NEVER get against Japan — or China, for that matter.
The other reason Japan wanted an empire was because they also recognized all the Great Western Powers were either Industrializing or Industrialized. They looked around the Home Islands and discovered that they lacked any of the necessary resources in significant quantity, little coal or iron for steel, not enough farmland, miniscule amounts of oil, etc. So the only way for Japan to be a Sovereign Great Power was to build an empire that could supply Japanese Industries. Japan today is a Great Power, but it is not truly sovereign as it is reliant on the security relationship with the US to ensure resource and market access.
Western means having colonies and abusing them. Japan had colonies but allowed them to thrive independently as well. Japan is better than the west. A United States colony has people that have lost brain structure do to lack of food and are no longer considered human beings because the amount of abuse.
Warped history as usual to cloud Japan’s history of invasion of China and slaughter of over 22 million Chinese, and USA and England drug lords subjecting China to a century of humiliation,opium wars, plunder and burning of their summer palace.
You have to fight fire with fire 🔥
They still lost
Nah it really had more to do with the fact that an island is much harder to colonize
Why is this person all of a sudden all over the place with these talks and lectures? Where has she been the past thirty years? Why now are there videos up the wazoo seemingly from nowhere with her confident assertions about all kinds of historical and geopolitical “facts” as if we’ve never heard any of this before?
"oh well (kinda like forced😂 you know? What can we do?🤷🏻♂️ 😂) we'll have an Empire" (If we have to)