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Except they didn't thought so. Never heard the the invasion of Suiyuan? So apparently you aren't aware of Nagata's famous 'Ichigekiron'. He was the one who called for a 'striking attack' on China in June 1933.

Sounds familiar. Heard similar things before from someone I would not dare to name. Long story short, in the militarists' mind things went to the other way. The Toseiha wanted to strike China because they saw KMT as the main threat to the Japanese domination in Manchuria. The Kodoha wanted to...

Zentrumspartei

The concept of Emperor-worship was a creation of the Meiji nation building. The Meiji Restoration made the Emperor the source of the state authority, and the Emperor definitely did participate in the decision making process, however he certainly had no last say. The Meiji Constitution was...

Blatantly authoritarian, also conservative, particularly the latter Had a long tradition of parliamentary rule Hardly an 'Empire' of this sense, could've been a Kingdom or even a Duchy, and also was hardly a liberal monarchy

Hokkaido was literally just a few ten miles away from the Main Island and they did not colonized the island until the late 19th century. California is much closer to Mexico than to Japan. Maintain a naval presence, well, I don't know how the heck they're going to supply such a 'presence'.

We all know how destructive the so-called 'Great Leap Forward' was, and how horrible life during the Cultural Revolution was. These two are classic showcases of the Maoist stagnation, all led and controlled by none other than Dear Chairman Mao himself. But how does that makes, very...

You need to remove the whole malaria thingy from the Sub-Saharan Africa first.

From what I had read (particularly Victor Serge) the Mensheviks controlled the Petrograd Soviet before the October Revolution and had every chance to usurp the power from the Provisional Government. They simply had no will to go ahead.

When Nazi Germany occupied France in 1940 Hitler had other concerns to care about, firstly the Great Britain and secondly the Soviet Union. Now here the Great War would end with the German surrender and I can see the French trying their utmost to dismantle the Prussian war machine once for all...

Except they can't. Without any allies left, Germany was virtually encircled from all sides, Italians would advance from Tyrol and Yugoslavians from Slovenia, Czechoslovakians from Czech and etc. As I see the question should be not how the German Army would put up resistance, but what would the...

It's very certain to me that all of this would lead to a complete occupation of Germany and a harsher Versailles, and thus causing even more stronger revival of German nationalism and perhaps a lasting cleavage within the Western Allies, particularly between Britain and France. Social...

The entire concept of divine God-Emperor was a creation of the Japanese proto-nationalism and if the POD is before the establishment of the Tokugawa Shogunate there would be no absolute reason to 'purge' the Imperial House. Oh yes, the Emperor was supposed to be the descendant of the Goddesse...

Ivaylo the Cabbage Tsar

Moral righteousness? No one was embracing 'moral supremacy' idea here. It was you who brought up the issue that was not relevant to the topic nor anyone was talking about. Why are you trying to shift the topic from the Japanese aggressions to the Western colonialism?

Why I'm being quoted? And will anybody give me some clues why the heck the Western colonial history is even relevant to the Japanese aggressions and war crimes? Other than "But the Western world did that too!" type apologists' logic?

Everyone know there was no good side. Now why is it relevant here?

What's with all those "the United Nations did that too, done this too" bullshit?

Future Bayezid II is just 5 and a half years old by this point. Wouldn't the Ottomans just rally behind Orhan and avoid civil war completely?

I'm sure he's talking about this one. Of course it's a pure legendary story, but it was the official version of history back then.