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The word 'peacefully' certainly rules out a preventive war. Throughout the late 1980s there was a bilateral discussion between the KMT and the CCP, with some negotiators seeing the potential for a 'third united front', which would have been the latest chance to achieve the OP, but it went off...

Relevant statistics. (Korea's case) The contrast I'd like to highlight is that, in Scandinavian cases like Sweden, pre-tax inequality is high, but it's state taxation and redistribution that brings down the said inequality, whereas in Korea and Japan, pre-tax inequality is not severe to...

The premise of this is the myth that Nagano actually opposed attacking the US. I'd like to know why this myth is continued to be perpetuated on this site given this is absurd and baseless claim with zero evidence indicating such happening at all. Last year I wrote posts below in response to...

Given it was the right-wing minister Mizutani Chozaburo who pushed for the nationalization of coal industry, no, they were not 'centrists' within Japan's political context, like at all, it's just that they were more willing to give in to the Democratic Party when the only alternative was to...

Of course it didn't work in real life, it creates a question over Hirohito's war responsibility, because if his post-war emphasis on the role of constitutional monarch are only being forced by the Americans, what does that says about his true feelings, and about his actual role during the war...

This is true for the most part of the JCP's existence, but before the entrenchment of the 1955 system the party was still staunch anti-monarchist.

In Korea we underwent some 40 years of political dictatorships, with liberalization during short interregnums between each regime, which was quickly followed by political destabilization and then the reintroduction of dictatorship. In Taiwan they went more-or-less same length of tyranny. It's...

I guess it could be argued that such a compromise would not be much of a change from current monarchy in Japan. But there's a huge gap that can't be filled in between, namely the absence of the American effort to not implicate the Imperial House from the war responsibility, and Hirohito's own...

I said "Unlikely" mainly because I don't think there would be a conservative merger to form a LDP-equivalent. The monarchy issue is going to be a social dividing issue between those who are willing to accept the fait accompli, and those who refuse to accept the legitimacy of the new state -...

This is false, plain and simple. Not only the 1946 election shows the supposed 'massive boom in communist/socialist action' was hollow, but especially as far as the Socialist Party is concerned, the party's leadership which was composed of pre-war socialists included a lot of former military...

Sigh.

So no Hirohito to comfort the starving people, no institution to guarantee Japan's continuation as an independent nation, no authority to order the Japanese military to surrender weapons over to the US occupation, and no legitimacy to back the post-war Japanese civilian government either. It...

You've got to admit the posters here are actively trying their best to confirm the Allies indeed were evil, with all these audacious posts from the Western point of view like the above one.

Is this satire?

Only 98.9%? How am I supposed to score higher than this as Lincoln?

I actually agree, looks like I missed some contexts.

At this point I'm basically repeating my previous post, but the MITI was very keen to integrate Japanese economy into international division of labor and actively liberalized trade policies throughout the so-called Era of High Growth. We Koreans were much more protectionist, but our government...

I don't have much thing to say about France's case with its colonial capitalism, but still I would say Japan and Korea are very bad examples in arguing for India's case.

The thing about Korean animal husbandry is that ancient people were very labor-minded in this regards, they grew cows to plow the field and horses to move things around, those livestock were raised mainly to provide labor and not for meats nor diary nor anything else while butchers were...