Recent content by admkenshin

The problem with Japan as compared to many other colonies is that Japan was heavily populated, had a smooth-working government until the opium wars, and a culture with extremely little corruption. Edo Japan was the pinnacle of pre-industrial society. No, I think a POD during the Sengoku Jidai...

What's the theoretical and practical access, read and write times, vs your typical hard drive? Remember that even 1980's SCSI drives spun very fast.

Well to fix the economy without a war you need the massive expansion of the service industry seen after WW2. What caused the change from picnic's to McDonald's in OTL? Women being employed en-masse, with subsequent spending money? GI paychecks and a lot of unmarried young adults? McDonald's...

All we ever have here are Ameriwanks, Britwanks, and the odd Germanwank. Granted, the vast majority of AH.coms users live in the Anglosphere, and the Jerries had cool uniforms, but it's still somewhat tiring...

True about the equipment, but one of the reasons modern countries wage wars, is that the economy can be put "on hold" during the emergency. Basically, the government requisitions what they need, and civilians receive goods through ration cards. Now, Germany didn't go that far until 1943 I think...

Perhaps FDR would have gotten through with his ultimatum of unconditional surrender. We might have seen a completely occupied Japan, or a war lasting long into '45. In that case, Japan would have lost a lot more than Manchuria and Korea. Chiang was making a lot of noise about Taiwan, maybe he...

One of the things Inoue took care of in that movie ^_-

I think the Korean movie 2009: Lost Memories handle it well. A modern Korea that had been part of Japan and joined in the liberties and economic successes of the postwar era would not be terribly interested in independence. The POD is that a Japanese go back in time and change the occupation...

It was. You will have a hard time finding someone in Korea who attended school in the 40's who doesn't speak some Japanese.

Still, I don't think a Japanese "Vietnam" on a massive scale is going to have the same effect as losing WW2. There might be some heads rolling, and less IJA influence in the Diet, but essentially it will be business as usual. Maybe the loss of so much manpower will have some effect on the...

I wrote: For Russia to negotiate with Japan [with Japan getting Korea], not how to prevent the war. That is easy enough, the Japanese simply cave in to Russian demands and bide their time. I am also aware of how poorly the IJA performed on land, and I haven't heard much nice said about Nogi.

Well, the whole "Intellectual Vanguard" idea was something Marx THOUGHT was bad but necessary, right? Or, perhaps it was entirely Lenin's idea, I'm no expert... but actual communism is incompatible with a political government. Now, as we all know, the Soviet Union never moved away from a...

For Russia to negotiate with Japan, you would need: a) Major Russian investigation into Japan, and making the Tzar and the nobility understand that Japan IS capable of fighting a modern war. Maybe Japan does well against another Great Power? Perhaps small skirmish battles lost lead the...

Well, I guess we would be taking the sub-orbital when travelling to and from Europe ;)

The best solution is of course to have a more mechanized Japanese industry. Japanese mass-production was based on cheap human labor, which meant that quality for advanced technology like high-grade engines and electronics, and also limited production to a level that was entirely adequate pre-war...