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  1. The Shogunate forever

    RE: Rebellion they tried to establish a new state in Hokkaido... Okay, so lets take this in a different direction. Since most of the emperors advisors were Ishin-shishi, we can presume the Shinsengumi would be the new Shogunate government's closest advisors, with the emperor remaining a puppet...
  2. The Shogunate forever

    That sounds like a better idea! To the idea generator we go.
  3. The Shogunate forever

    Sly, that's an even better idea. Let's somehow have a military coup cause a small but major conflict within the Russian empire, leading to the Russian Revolution occuring in 1901.
  4. The Shogunate forever

    I kinda want a little bit of divergence but I suppose the rapid modernization set up here in addition to aid from France could be the divergence.
  5. The Shogunate forever

    Lets think...what would it take? Well theoretically some kind of great military victory could impress them.
  6. The Shogunate forever

    Then lets have Russia somehow agree to the former.
  7. The Shogunate forever

    I forgot Vietnam was part of Indochina!!! Alright, lets take that back and have the Manchurian invasion proceed as usual, but rather than have them attempt to expand over the whole of China, have Manchuria converted into a buffer state between Japan and Russia.
  8. The Shogunate forever

    Let's have somewhat of an alternate scenario... Japan invades Korea still, but rather than invading Manchuria next, attacks Vietnam and attempts to annex it.
  9. The Shogunate forever

    Duuuh that was a brainfart on my part.... What i meant to say was instead of coming to a head over Manchuria, Russia invade Korea, the events of the Sino Japan war never occured in the timeline..
  10. The Shogunate forever

    Heck, I will take this all the way and have an additional point of diversion: Russia attempts to invade Korea rather than Japan, seeing Japan's even more rapid modernization than in our timeline and deciding they are too big a threat.
  11. The Shogunate forever

    Would the invasions of China, Korea happen as they did in the real world? Yeah guys thanks I'm jotting all this down because I wanna write a timeline/story revolving around all this.
  12. The Shogunate forever

    I kinda wanna make my first timeline from this but I'm not sure where to start. What if in 1870 the Shogunate succeeded in their rebellion against the Emperor and booted him from the throne? The Shogunate were famously more recieving towards the foreign powers, so I highly suspect Japan would...
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