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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...

Map by u/KolonelJoe on Reddit. Can the United States actually win againist both nations in the 1850s and take these territories? What would be the impact of slavery? Would this begin American colonization of Japan?

I know the two aerial attacks were very significant in the war, but they weren't effective as they were planned. What would need to be different/changed to have a successful and considerably meaningful impact on the German-Japanese war effort?

This is my new test timeline to legitimately test out the waters and see how/what I do before going to bigger stuff. This timeline is focused on a earlier start in otaku culture in the United States of America. This will also cover the animation, broadcasting, television, gaming, children's...

Besides resolving the IJA and IJN rivalry? Also it would be still Axis aligned.

Some context: Competent A-H fends off Brusilov offensive, no German USW, February Revolution still on time, no Kerensky Offensive, no October Revolution, armistice in late 1917/early 1918, negotiated peace in 1918. Russia only loses Poland (sans Suwalki). German Asia-Pacific possessions have the...

what would Japanese do to non japanese in their empire assuming no war with US and soviets are peace or are defeated by nazis bigger nanking ? will they exterminate them through forced labour or enlsave them or British model of goverment ?

In OTL, Toyotomi Hideyoshi sent Japanese Armies to invaded Joseon Korea, to conquer Ming China in hopes of honoring his late Lord Oda Nobunaga's dream, and to cement the Toyotomi Clan's security (Or to get rid of a bunch of samurai, by having them invade Korea). The Imjin War was a disaster...

I tried asking a similar question a while ago but since the question devolved into debating China's strategic decisions rather than discussing possible reformist Japanese politicians, I wanted to try asking one more time. The initial scenarios' in the link but long story short China avoids the...

Let's say that Chiang had better luck wiping out the communists and a much shorter warlord period where only Manchuria remains outside of Beijing's control. China joins the Axis and attacks British and French colonies and eventually the USSR in return for supplies to fight Japan in Manchuria. In...

The Japanese Invasion of Joseon Korea, also known as the Imjin War, had two phases. The initial first invasion lasted from 1592-1596 was called Imjin Disturbance, which ended in a truce in 1596. However this truce didn’t last, because negotiations fell through. This caused a second invasion in...

The challenge is to make this development happen after WW2 You may choose any PoD as back in the Meiji era

In the 19th and 20th centuries, Peru received a considerable flux of Chinese and Japanese immigrants. From 1849 and 1899, respectively. They made great contributions to Peruvian culture. Peruvians with full or partial Chinese ancestry are approximately 6,4 million (about 20% of the country's...

In Japanese RPG games and some similarly themed Western video games (for example the JRPG "Chrono Trigger" or the Hungarian Manga RPG "Amnézia") the world presented before the player has a kind of syncretism of Medieval Japan and Medieval Europe, with some common Modern elements also added in...

How likely was a Portuguese takeover of Japan, with a PoD before 1700? Comparing this hypothetical scenario to OTL's British conquest of India, it doesn't seem too impossible to me. Like the Portuguese in Japan, the British were originally interested in commerce with India, before they got...

Bangkusay! Verse 1 Princess Kandarapa's betrothal to one of the Saludongese nobles fell apart in the late 1560's due to what the Luzones are treating the ethnic Saludongese in the areas that are conquered by Bolkiahs and in this time the people would not support the alliance between the...

Given that the distance between Japan and Australia is only 6,848 km, I couldn’t help but wonder think about a hypothetical TL where Australia is colonized and established as a settler colony by Japan instead of Britain during the 17th-18th centuries. And similar to OTL, the following things...

With a POD in 1822 or after, how could Chinese immigrants and their descendants become the largest immigrant group in Brazil, or at the very least surpass the Japanese immigrants/descendants of OTL in population by 2017? According to the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs these are the most...

How would have German and Japanese Soldiers reacted if they met each other during WW2? Now I understand that both the German Reich and the Japanese Empire never managed to push far enough into Asia to have their forces. I mean, I could rhyme myself a story together of what would happen, but I...

Apparently there were some attempts to replace kanji with a Latin alphabet during the early Meiji Era, but they never caught on: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanization_of_Japanese#As_a_replacement_for_Japanese_writing_system What would it take for the Japanese language to be romanized in a...