Redpill me on Japanese history ?
Why were they an irrelevant and insignificant island until the early 20th century ?
Redpill me on Japanese history ?
Jaxon Roberts
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Jonathan Garcia
constant civil war and political instability
Oliver Phillips
Why were feudal Japs so bad at managing their own country ?
Christian Howard
were feudal Japs bad at managing their own country?
Landon Long
Why do you still have the inferiority complex towards Japan?
It's already in the 21th century.
Dominic Mitchell
a policy of seclusion
Dominic Mitchell
Noah Reed
They were a large sized country for most of their existence. They didn’t really have a need to expand and if they wanted to they’d run into China which is far more powerful and the chinese and japanese squared off multiple times. The mountainous and fertile nature of the country makes it difficult to hold together because warlords can easily spin off their own self sustaining territory and evade central government authority. So the government would try to create a situation in which they were hegemonic in the isles and could strike down any opposition if they wanted to. This costs a lot of attention and thus they have little energy to interact much with the outside world or expand much into it. The imjin war was a case were there were far too many warriors in the country that could tear it up again so they had to be sent somewhere else to fight and die.
In the industrial era they had little industrial raw materials so they pretty much had to expand to secure the sea lanes on which these materials are traded to them. Then they went full megalomaniac for a while trying to achieve autarky and now that this failed they rely on america to protect their sea lanes. As long as the central government can control the country and their sealanes are secure Japan is satisfied. That’s why they are worried about Chinese claims in the seas to the South of Japan.
Connor Gonzalez
Constant civil war is usually the result of bad management of the nation
Nathan Miller
>states the truth
>get accused of having inferiority complex
calm your tits