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Not every Nationalists loved the Generalissimo, but anyone with just bare intelligence could see Wang's negotiation was going nowhere. It is telling that not even pro-Japanese collaborators in the occupied part of China were willing to accept Wang and his 'legitimate' government. The Japanese...

If it came down to such situation it wouldn't be pansy cruisers but battleships pounding the garrison.

The Japanese force had more than enough firepower to overwhelm Midway garrison so they wouldn't be repelled easily, but the fate of the atoll aside, avoiding the complete destruction of two carrier divisions is certainly going to play in Japan's favor. Port Moresby might fall after all. That...

Any type of "land-based bomber" (陸上攻撃機) was shortened and called as "rikko" (陸攻) by the Navy. It's not denoting to the specific model of bomber such as the G4M bomber, but a much more broad definition.

It's less of "Ironic Fascists vs Weebs" and more of very specific posters deliberately stirring up a fake rivalry so that they can grab easy popcorn.

There's a difference between enacting "bloody purges" against general population and killing opposition leaders. The former happened neither before nor after but during the war, justified by North Korean aggression and backed by frightened public opinion. After truce was signed in 1953, Rhee's...

I cannot say impossible, but given the popularity Rhee enjoyed from North Korea during the short UN occupation of 1950, I believe that's unlikely to happen. From my impression the British suggestion wasn't well thought out. It didn't took account of the opposition and resistance the South...

Different ideas circulated. Rhee obviously wanted to incorporate North Korea directly and immediately, for in his view Seoul was the only legitimate representative of the Korean nation, which by the way is still South Korea's official stance on North Korea's legal status. The US wanted to hold...

America (and the UN to an extent) was adamant in blocking South Korea from governing North Korean territories and installed their own military administration instead. It is doubtful such 'bloody purges' could be even organized by South Korean authorities when they had no control or whatsoever in...

Bose fought and advocated for the Japanese victory, in his own words, he prayed "Nippon's role in the creation of a new and free Asia may be fully and finally consummated", the new Asia where we Koreans and those Chinese people would have been forever deprived of freedom and condemned to suffer...

Finland switched side when they figured out it isn't helping their independence and Aung San flipped once he figured out fighting for fascist losers wouldn't give them freedom. Bose fought for Japanese imperialism until his death. Which has been rightfully condemned by academics all around...

What speculation and discredit? He threw himself along with his followers into the Japanese camp and binded his lot with the fascist victory. That makes him and his bunch fascist collaborators. As a Korean I would not claim to know British imperialism better than you, but Bose and his 'Army'...

Or maybe they were just smarter than Bose and his fascist collaborators. "None of those who have written on Bose's Indian national army has investigated whether, while they were trained by the Japanese army, they were permitted to share in the "comfort" provided by thousands of kidnapped Korean...

How do those countries survive the crippling external debts without abolishing socialist economy or give a middle finger to the creditors and face the consequence ala North Korea?

Still, a declaration of war is the most extreme position Japan could take, probably impossible given the Army's Germanophilism. By that point, they weren't counting on international PR it hardly mattered to them, if Nanjing is any indication. Nor they counted on the possibility of diplomatic...

The Rejection of the 'Europeanization' and the popularization of racism happened. The word that best represents Japan's aspiration during the late 19th century is, it's only my opinion but, Fukuzawa Yukichi's "Quit Asia, Enter Europe". The Western course to civilization was viewed as the...

Neither Nagano nor Shimada held ministerial office in 1940. Nishiura was involved in editing the Senshi Sosho and I'd trust the author's own words more. I can't even find a single indication that the document was ever brought to the Navy let alone Yamamoto. You brought the the Army-Navy...

The former forum at cs.servegame.com was lost but some posts are still accessible via the infamous Internet Archive. This link lists everything crawled from the former forum by that site. (The actual contents starts from the page 52)

I feel you're missing several points here. When Nagano stated on July 30 1941 that "there's no way but to strike", it was despite of the apparent odds against Japan and his declared opposition to the war against the United States (Senshi Sosho vol.91 p.529). He was advocating and justifying for...

Not him, but: The map used to look like this. The older version of Kaiserpedia (not the current official one) isn't very useful as the former cs.servegame forum or even the ancient one used before 2008 but still probably worth a visit if you're into the legacy version.