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German companies made far greater use of slave labour though. With Japan things are complicated by a lot of labour being conscripted Koreans who at the time were considered Japanese citizens, and heaven knows even the western allies conscripted their own citizens. Post-war though the Koreans...

Um. They did. But yes. Canada has less useful land and its marketing department wasn't so big on the whole "Look at all this land where the natives conveniently disapeared! Its free for the taking!" thing. Politics and wanting to get away from the UK had F.A to do with it for the immigrants...

It was only the fluke of other people attacking them and proving to be utterly incompetent that led to Japan managing to expand as much as it did. Japan allying itself with France is unlikely. Early on they made a point of trying to balance the influence of western powers so they wouldn't be...

Not both of them. But if nagasaki was replaced with a korean target then japan and korea could share in the pain. Would do a lot to bring them together. And korea was afterall part of japan. Far fetched to have it happen though. Considerably less valuable targets and the risk of the bomb...

Hurray for answers that answer nothing

Just because youre a monarch it doesnt automatically make you head of state. The status of elizabeth ii doesnt really have much to do with the japanese emporer

Destroying the liancourts would help. It is just insane how much the Koreans care about those rocks. Or at the least having the Americans making clear that they are Japanese or Korean. Hard to see that happening without hindsight though. hmm...perhaps if we can somehow convince the...

That's not quite the case. Japan supported the more fringe modernising faction whilst China supported the conservative, monarchist, hermit faction. The reason the Japanese eventually took over Korea was because it was refusing to modernise itself. Rest assured I have noting but disdain for...

Very easily imo. Yes, the Japanese emperor was a god. But Shintoism is a native religion. It doesn't polysthetise and it traditionally tends to be pretty laid back about other religions on its turf- the Meiji regime recognised this as a problem and made an active effort to strengthen Shinto into...

What's to say America would be a dominion? Actually, if history does follow that same route it would probably be outright called a kingdom since there would be no self-conscious republic next door to annoy. There are so many other ways government in the Americas could be organised though. It...

I agree it is very very unlikely to have a full on European conquest of Japan. Not only was it bigger and richer than any European country it was also far more militarised. The absolute best you could hope for is a European power getting very friendly with a local lord and helping him to unite...

WI professional sports never developed an objection to performance enhancing drugs? I mean, it doesn't really make sense; to deny certain specific chemicals that make sports people better.... Of course, the long term health effects raise major questions over the long term wisdom but hey-ho...

Britain in N.Africa and supply lines- Britain has much more sea going resupply capacity than the axis did. The only way this could become an issue is if the retreating Italians make a special effort to ruin ports as they go. I'm not sure that's true. The Germans tried to get the Brits to...

Maybe if you had an asbly good and lucky king who gets declared the second coming? I think thats the way to go.with a fourth abraganic religion. You need another prophet.

Cities personally expanding didn't hurt Switzerland much. Though I guess in Italy there's the problem that expansion would most likely be at the expense of other cities rather than the nobility. Perhaps if we can burn Milan and have multiple rather than a single successor? It does seem...

It would be horrible. Full of FMVs (with real actors? Ugh) and spoken speech- which considering the general quality of translations in the 90s......

Lately I've been reading a fair bit about medieval communes, the history of Switzerland, city states, etc... It is quite interesting stuff to see how widespread such pseudo-democratic institutions were in the high medieval period, where by the early modern period they had largely vanished...

China even in modern times has all the buffer territory it needs. Consider too that its south western border is mostly mountains and its northern border, which traditionally stretches into Mongolia and Russia, is desert and wilderness. And its not like China never tried to expand. It tried to...

The target audience of games back then was young boys. Even more so than today. I wouldn't see a girl having the same appeal as a cool dude to your average 7 year old kid.

Surely the Okinawans would make more sense? But I guess the thing to consider is that the natives weren't push overs. We weren't talking Australian aboriginals here, people ignorant of the outside world and unable to comprehend the sheer weight of numbers that nations could send against...