japan

What would the name for the Japanese military be if Japan reestablished a military sometime around the 50s, similar to how the Bundeswehr was founded in 1955? Let's say that the Soviets occupied a portion of Japan and established their own communist Japan like the DDR. Japan had no choice but...

OTL Nobunaga dies Honno-ji Incident and become Isolationist. TTL Nobunaga never died and Escape Honno-ji Incident What happened Buddhist and Shinto? Would Nobunaga Converted Catholic Christianity? Would Sakoku Never Happened? Would Ecchi Never Existed? Would Manga and Anime Never Existed...

How many nuclear weapons would they have? Let's say the program started in 1955. I imagine most of them would be deployed in a submarine fleet, with a purely defensive doctrine, and also Japan would probably have to have a missile interception grid to make Israel's Iron Dome look a bunch of...

Pan-Asianist (Minus most of the imperialism) fever dream, basically The way I see this timeline playing out: 1. More successful Freedom & People's Rights Movement ----------------------------------------------------- 2. Industrialized, independent Korea via successful Gapsin Coup...

What would be needed for japanese city pop to be exported wordwide and achieve popularity outside of Japan? And what would be the effects of this? Earlier rise in popularity of asian pop music in the west? This of course has to be during the late 70s-80s because that's the period City Pop...

(The Rise of the Second Imperial Kingdom) With Meiji's peace agreement with the US and the Western world established, and with most of the colonies now independent. The Imperial House would find itself in a new political climate. Since the Kenmu Restoration had eliminated the threat of civil...

I've seen a fair few posts asking about the effects of abolishing the Japanese monarchy post WW2, and the consensus always seems to be the same: It is likely seen as an attack on Japan's very identity, and causes non-stop guerilla resistance against the US, and also possibly ends up making Japan...

What if Ukraine didn't apologize to the Japanese but instead kept exposing the war crimes Hirohito and the Japanese Empire committed?

I won't beat around the bush: My objective here, cliché as it may be, is to attain a Christian Japan. Originally, I considered having Oda Nobunaga survive, instead of dying in the Honno-ji Incident. I remembered that he was sympathetic to Christianity, viewing it as a tool against the Buddhist...

Suppose that the Tokugawa government starts its modernization earlier - perhaps by having Yoshinobu become shogun in 1858 instead of the teenage Iemochi - and they manage to win the Boshin War. How would Japanese policies, domestic and foreign, be affected? Would the country continue to have two...

So how would China develop if there were no unequal treaties forced on them during the 1800s like no Opium Wars, no Eight-Nations Alliance, not losing Outer Manchuria, etc; maybe just losing Korea and Taiwan to Japan.

Ouchi Yoshitaka was a Japanese daimyo who led the Ouchi clan, which at its height ruled most of Chugoku and northern Kyushu, from 1528 to 1551. He spent his early reign fighting the Amago clan, but after a disastrous defeat in an attempt to conquer Izumo province in 1542 withdrew from military...

Takeda Shingen and Uesugi Kenshin both respectively are some of the most legendary figures of the Sengoku Jidai. Takeda Shingen was one of the best strategists and greatest Daimyo of his Era, gaining the title of "Tiger of Kai". Meanwhile, Uesugi Kenshin was also a great strategist and legendary...

During the Sengoku Era of Japan, when Ōuchi clan were at the height of their power, the Daimyo Ōuchi Yoshitaka became quite the patron of the Imperial Court, in the arts, under the reigning Japanese Emperor Go-Nara. It was then Yoshitaka embarked on a daring plan to relocate Imperial Court and...

The Meiji Restoration was a time of foreign assistance in Japan. Much of this was indeed from Prussia/Germany, especially in the medical and military fields. But overall the Japanese would choose the British as their ally long-term, due to their naval power. I have a challenge for you, make...

Toyotomi Hidetsugu was the nephew to the Legendary Second Unifier of Japan, Toyotomi Hideyoshi. He had experience in military through his service most notably during his uncle's conquest of Shikoku, and took part in the Siege of Odawara against the Later Hojo Clan. He was said to been confidant...

Konishi Yukinaga was a Japanese Daimyo in the 16th Century for Toyotomi Hideyoshi, and was a major part of the Imjin War, or the Japanese Invasions of Korea. He was known for two things in particular; 1. He was a Christian Daimyo, and 2. He rivalry with another one of Hideyoshi's generals, Kato...

I've got an idea to do a "realistic" (I hate using the R word, I mean at least the least goofy as possible) timeline where China, Japan, and Korea (or virtually all of Asia, maybe even Iran and Thailand, but these are not the focus of this thread) are colonized by the European imperialist...

In 1592, the Japanese invaded the Korea, which has become known as the Imjin War. Toyotomi Hideyoshi, ruler of Japan, gathered large armies to invade the Korean Peninsula to invade China. There were many speculations on why Hideyoshi invaded Korea: Some say it was Megalomania for Hideyoshi to...

I think everyone who's aware of the history of postwar Japan would know that for a time, back in the 80s and early 1990s, there was a growing concern in the US that Japan would become a superpower that would rival or even surpass them in terms of power and influence. However, this never came to...