A liberal and democratic Japan without defeat or war?

[admkenshin]

Excellent, then. What about the Korean independence movement? As I recall, support for it was strong in schools and amongst the youth. Sorry if I am pestering, It's just going to be a major part.

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 policy in Korea.

Interestingly the movie didn't portray the Japanese as evil, they were just fighting for their own nation (trying to avoid WW2, which the Korean nationalists tried to stop as they wanted independence).

 

[DuQuense]

One problem is the Japanese never decided on how to assimilate Korea.
There were several periods of encouraging Koreans to adopt Japanese Names, and several periods were Koreans were prohibited from adopting Japanese Names.
This Flip Flop Attitude carried over in to a lot of other areas of Administration.

 

[iori]

Hawaii might be the better comparison than Texas given the circumstances involved. That said, how does one create that hybrid culture with respect to "Chosen"?

By teaching in in schools, providing funding only to the events meant to be part of it, stuff like that.

I don't know why, but I have a feeling the Bon Festival might be a good transplant to Korea.
Chilseok (with an appropriate Nipponized name) might be a good way to do so in Japan as well.

 

[admkenshin]

One problem is the Japanese never decided on how to assimilate Korea.
There were several periods of encouraging Koreans to adopt Japanese Names, and several periods were Koreans were prohibited from adopting Japanese Names.
This Flip Flop Attitude carried over in to a lot of other areas of Administration.

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

 

[Technocrat]

This thread gives me a hare-brained idea:
1. The principles of the Populist Party attract the attention of a talented author, who publishes a book that serves as the manifesto of populism and helps unite Grangers, Silverites, and other Populists within a comprehensive and uniform political ideology.
2. This Populist manifesto as it were is translated into Japanese by some odd stroke of fate and winds up having a larger role than socialism in the development of early 20th century Japanese counterculture.

"The Japanese William Jennings Bryan" is a phrase too awesome to not be uttered.