AHC: Keeping Japan weak

scholar

Banned
That's not difficult. Japan is a nation with no resources to speak of, a smaller population, and scattered among Islands. The only reason why it was able to become stronger than China was because of Emperor Meiji and the decaying decrepit corpse that was China at the time. With a POD in 1800, it is possible to keep the Qing Strong, centralized, and allow it to modernize all while Japan is still blissfully in isolation. The butterflies should get rid of Commodore Perry's mission.
 

scholar

Banned
Never have Japan unified and the emperor restored to power.
If Japan's in constant civil war then that will naturally increase industrial and military capabilities of the Islands so that the Daimyo will actually be powerful enough to take on nations. You can observe this in Sengoku era with the introduction of guns to Japan in a limited quantity and they quickly were being produced more in Japan than most other countries and the quality of the weapon was better than most nations as well. Japan had modernized before the Shogunate de-modernized it. Keeping Japan weak means keeping it isolated, to do that you need unity.
 
If that happened it would be a russia expanding into china, korea and japan...

Not necessarily. If Japan is weak due to a stronger position of the Qing, it's very likely that Russia's expansion is nipped in the bud, so to speak. Otherwise you're right, without Japan curbing Russian ambitions there, you might well see a Russian Manchuria and Korea.
 
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