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The Shimabara Rebellion was a Christian rebellion against the violent suppression of Matsukura Katsuie that occurred between 1637 and 1638, which in OTL ended with Japan's policies of national seclusion and persecution of Christianity being reinforced until the Bakumatsu in the 1850s and in...

The First Sino-Japanese War was Japan's first foreign entanglement after the Meiji Restoration, and it ended with a decisive victory for the nascent empire, whose power and influence would only grow in the years to come. The Qing dynasty, besides being once again humiliated on the international...

The title is quite self-explanatory, after the end of WW2 and the defeat of the Empire of Japan (大日本帝國, Dai Nippon Teikoku), following the adoption of its new constitution and US-enforced regime change, the country just simply became known as Japan (大日, Nihon/Nippon), and nothing else, much like...

What if the United States and the Soviet Union agreed and managed to invade Japan between 1941-1944 ?

Ashikaga Yoshiteru was the 13th Shogun of the Muromachi Shogunate. By this point, the Sengoku Jidai was in full swing, and the Ashikaga Shoguns were merely puppets for more powerful clans such as the Miyoshi, the Hosokawa or Rokakku. Most of these shoguns were content with playing ball with the...

Let's assume that Japan was able to keep Taiwan post-WW2. You can come up with any reasons as to why this happens, but, for the sake of the thread, I'll just say that the KMT lost the Chinese Civil War early, and thus the US doesn't have a friendly China to hand Taiwan over to. To my knowledge...

Yan Xishan was arguably the most pro-Japanese among the Chinese warlords of the era. Thus during the Second Sino-Japanese War, the Japanese saw the rift between Yan and Chiang Kai-shek and had multiple times asked Yan to cooperate with them, but he refused and even contributed his part in...

The Ōuchi Clan was one of the most powerful Daimyo clans in the early Sengoku Jidai. Claiming descent from Baekje Royalty, at their height, they controlled six provinces in Western Japan, and the city of Yamaguchi was seen as the "Kyoto of the West" being a hub of culture and trade with China...

The Nobubaga Oda and His Son Nobutada Oda killed by Akechi Mitsuhide 1582 OTL, TTL Nobunaga Oda and Son Nobutada survived escaped Akechi Mitsuhide Failed, Nobunaga Oda Unification Succeeded 1584 and become Shogun lived until 1637 and replaced son Nobutada Oda. Would Atomic Bomb Hiroshima and...

This thread is a go-to place where most discussions on this topic will be dumped as an "introduction", considering that quite a lot has been already written about this subject, but a specific thread about it has not been made yet, so the discussion below already explains the purpose and topic of...

Toyotomi Hideyoshi tried to get several important people to adopt him in order to adopt certain government titles IOTL. He succeeded with the Fujiwara, which ended with him taking the Kampaku and later Taiko title. Before he got adopted by the Fujiwaras however, he also tried to get the last...

I'v Shinzo Abe escaped assassination or Tetsuya Yamagami failed kills Shinzo Abe?

What if Christian missionaries from Iberia managed to convert Japan to Christianity in the 1500s? Additionally what if this Japan managed to conquer Korea in the Imjin War (or an alternate version of it) or a later war when the Ming was collapsing

Unsurprisingly, due to the major similarities (totalitarian government, violent racism, total war economies, foreign expansionism) Japanese Imperialism and European Fascism are often lumped in together. I was interested, though, in the differences between these two systems and was wondering if...

(I made this thread talking about this years ago, but it went nowhere and died. This is more of a remake.) For context, the Imjin War was an attempt by Toyotomi Hideyoshi to invade Ming China via Joseon Korea. After landing on Korean soil, the Japanese had initial success, even capturing the...

Assuming that Hideyoshi was somehow able to conquer Korea and then decided to set his eyes on the Kingdom of Ayutthaya for whatever reason (pick your reasoning: desire to control one of the largest and wealthiest cities in Asia at the time, he wanted to see an elephant, he felt bored, etc.)...

So this is an idea that has been with me for an undetermined period of time. Since Chinese traders were responsible for creating large Chinese creole communities all over South East Asia, Japan had a period where Japanese traders flourish all over South East Asia and East Asia, and Korea once...

I may be wrong, since I'm not too knowledgeable about Japan, but without getting too much into modern politics, it seems to be a lot more politically stable and less polarized than other major western countries. I'm wondering why this is, and if it would be possible, with a post-war POD to get...

Disclaimer: I know next to nothing about this period. While dozens if not hundreds of clans all over Japan fought for dominance during the Sengoku Jidai, the Ashikaga clan, whose kinsmen held the post of shogun (and were, thus, nominal rulers of Japan) for most of the period, were powerless...

According to some historians in Asia, during the Imjin War (When Japan under Toyotomi Hideyoshi invaded the Kingdom of Joseon), supposedly the Kingdom of Ayutthaya (Modern-Day Thailand), made a proposal to the Ming Chinese. They offered to dispatch a naval force to sail and attack Japan...