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I've just been reading a paper on historic Japanese knowledge of geography and it really jogged my mind on some interesting points. Before Japan closed itself off to the world it was doing pretty well in modernising, too well even, hence the reason for its closure. It was sending ambassadors to Europe and trying to start up trade with the Americas.
So...WI internal power struggles keep going a bit stronger meaning there is no one to dictate the closure of the country?

Could be quite interesting to have a bit of a bipolar world...
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