japan

  1. WI there was a large East Asian community in India?

    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...
  2. Can Japanese politics be more polarized by the present day?

    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...
  3. Could the Ashikaga shoguns unite Japan?

    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...
  4. GameBawesome

    WI: The Siamese attacks Japan during the Imjin War

    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...
  5. More countries that experienced the Argentine Paradox

    The "Argentine paradox" is a term used for the economic history of Argentina - at the beginning of the last century the country was one of the richest in the world in terms of GNP per capita, surpassing countries such as Germany, France and the Netherlands, while today it is a middle-developed...
  6. WI Japan conquer China instead of Song

    POD is that Taika Reform succeeds in centralizing Japan. It takes power away from clan. Their land nationalized and redistributed. Imperial government becomes the sole authority in Japan. The Emperor creates a professional national standing army Tang dynasty in China and Silla dynasty in Korea...
  7. If Japan remained a democracy and never joined the Axis, would manga/anime exist in its modern form?

    As the title said, would anime/manga be very different without an imperialist, Axis Japan being defeated and occupied by the Americans? I would assume that some similarities would exist, as American comic books would inevitably come to Japan, but not in the same way that it did in our timeline
  8. GameBawesome

    WI: No Chongyu War/ No Japanese second invasion of Korea

    The Japanese Invasions of Korea is one of the most pivotal moments in East Asian history, yet understudied elsewhere. It was when the Japanese under Toyotomi Hideyoshi sought to invade Ming China via Joseon Korea. At first, the Japanese steamrolled the Koreans on land, and pushed into the...
  9. GameBawesome

    AH Concept: East Asian West Coast in the 19th Century

    (So, I'm trying to come up with an idea for a concept for a private project of mine, inspired by @Ambassador Huntsman's timeline amazing Nobunaga's Ambition Timeline (Go read it if you haven't), but not using the Gavin Menzies' 1421 idea; I want late East Asian colonization, where Japan...
  10. How big of a Japanese cultural sphere and japanese creole community can Japan maintain in the pre colonial Phillipines?

    This is something that I have been thinking about recently, and I want to know: just how large of a cultural sphere and creole community could Japan create and sustain in the Philippines (prior to Spanish colonization of the Philippines)?I know that China had contacts with the Philippines, but...
  11. TheWitheredStriker

    Doctrine of a Japanese Christianity

    I've been working on a Christian Japan timeline off-site for a little while now, and while I originally started it as a Catholic Japan TL, I recently began exploring the much more rarely explored idea of Japan instead being Protestant. This happened after I read up on the Chinese Rites...
  12. BBadolato

    A Storm Over Okehazama Redux: A Sengoku Japan TL
    Threadmarks: Par1: A Fool is Felled at Okehazama

    June 12th, 1560 Okehazama, Owari Province It was a dull gray sky with the sun obscured by a thunderstorm. In sharp contrast, the sounds of celebration echoed from the camp of the army of Imagawa Yoshimoto, ninth head of the Imagawa Clan of Suruga. Yoshimoto himself sat within his camp...
  13. SealTheRealDeal

    Unbuilt Japan

    Alright, inspired by the recent Unbuilt Canada and Unbuilt Australia threads, along with the somewhat more distant Unbuilt Britain thread. This is a thread for sharing and discussing proposed, planned, or cancelled building/infrastructure projects in Japan, and their potential impact had they...
  14. Forth Eorlingas

    AHC: USA loses war to Japan (1868 start point)

    Challenge: with a POD of 1868, the Meiji Restoration, Japan and the USA fight a war where Japan wins a clear-cut victory and America acknowledges defeat. 3 conditions: - The war starts during or before 1941. - If Japan wins with allies, Japan must contribute half or more of the war effort. - no...
  15. TimTurner

    AHC: Japan and China both on the Axis or Allied side in WW2

    Your challenge, should you choose to accept it, is for a WW2 to start in the later 1930s (preferably in 1939 on schedule) and for both China and Japan to be on the same side in said war. What is required to be changed for this to happen? How many butterfly nets do you need to use, if any? What...
  16. FesteringSpore

    Japanese Imperial Role in Taisho democracy?

    In a world where Japan's Taisho-era democracy survive (take your pick of PoDs—Hara Takashi survives his assassination, the Kwantung Army fails to kill Zhang Zuolin, and others), how do you all think that the status of the Japanese imperial family would be? While this Japan would be more moderate...
  17. Would Japan Have Returned German Asia/Pacific Colonies Given A CP WW1 Victory?

    Title basically says it. Japan took Tsingtao, other German concessions in China, and Germany's pacific island colonies in 1914. If the Spring Offensive had succeeded and led to some sort of peace settlement favoring the Central Powers, would Japan have given back those colonies? Could Britain...
  18. Gillan1220

    What if Japan gets to keep Formosa after 1945? How will this affect future PRC-Japan relations?

    Just a scenario I cooked in my head. I know this is improbable but for the sake of the scenario, let us discuss the ramifications. Let's just say for some reason after Japan's defeat in WWII, the instrument of surrender only says Japan needs to let Korea and the South Pacific Islands go...
  19. Need help with story about aftermath of SS-GB show

    I am planning on uploading a story that continues after the end of the SS-GB show. It would focus on Archer’s efforts to further undermine German occupation of Britain as well as international developments. Will explain more soon, but I have ideas regarding the situation of British Jews, the...
  20. Oba Cahokia

    WI: The House of Li and the House Yamato merged? (Tang-Yamato Japanese Conquest/Reconquest of China?)

    What if the House of Li escaped to Japan and intermarried/merged with with the House of Yamato? How would this affect the history of East Asia and is it possible that this could lead to a Japanese conquest of Korea and China?
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