I'm more interested in how life is in the Imperial Japanese Empire. What is it like compared to life in the Reich? I mean, I hate to belabor this. But I do not really care for how little attention Imperial Japan gets in Alternate History Axis Victory scenarios in comparison to the Nazis.
I would like to see a companion book from the point of view of the Japanese Empire set in this world.
Ah! Yeah, I felt like that was really underdone (well really, almost non-existent) in Turtledove's original book. Granted, the story he was telling was not one of his globe-spanning sagas, but it would still be interesting to see things from the Japanese perspective, which I agree with you isn't done enough in Axis Victory scenarios. I feel like even Man in the High Castle (series) undercut that. IIRC, we never actually see Japan itself, just the Japanese Pacific States, whereas we
do see Berlin.
If I can, I will try to work in something.
It seems to me there would be some similarities between the way life is in the Japanese Empire and the Reich. The Japanese certainly considered themselves racially superior to many groups of people n the world and in their sphere of influence. Plus.... you had the Germanns conveying honorary Aryan status on them. So the more Japanese you were the better for you ? Relations between the Reich and Japan seem better in this world than in the Man in the High Castle Universe also.
Per Turtledove’s tendency toward Parallelism, Japan might be viewed as a TTL *China—the psychotic militarists of old have gradually lost power to a new wave of technocrats and business-oriented men more interested in turning the empire into a productive and profitable unit.
The average Chinese peasant is probably not well-off for most of the twentieth century (being subject to conscription for forced labor), but the turn toward a more high-tech economy (and the need for such weapons against the Reich) will gradually lead Japan to consider the need for the intellectual and financial contributions of its subjects. In other words, things start to get a lot better whenever the Imperial Japanese equivalent of Deng Xiaoping takes over. Education (naturally in Japanese alone), programs of road- and railroad- building, encouragement of businesses.
I thought imperial Japan didn’t put as much stock in a race and heritage as Germany during World War II
I am no expert, to be sure, but from what I recall from what I've read, while Imperial Japan wasn't as obsessed with race and ancestry as Hitler's Germany, it did matter, in the sense that the Japanese saw themselves as superior to everyone else in a very general sense.
I do feel like there would be a similar structure to the
Reich in that, for Japanese citizens, especially those in the Home Islands, things would be great overall, and I feel like the state would be less noticeable in the foreground than what occurs in Germany. Now, as was pointed out, for non-Japanese, things wouldn't be as great, and it would depend on which group you were as to just how not great it was: I'd imagine it would be a toss-up between the Chinese and the Koreans as to who got the shortest straw.
A popularbook is ; The Spare Wasnt There- The reign of Margaret I 1975=2001
Is this supposed to be an ITTL title?
Consider that one group that would also be "closeted"would be the LGBTQ community. Consider that many leaders of the Christian fundamentalist extreme have been exposed as gay or bisexual:
These hypocrites just couldn't practice what they preached.
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Oh for sure, this would fully be a thing.
Just another anti- American book by Turtledove. So all whites become rapid haters of anyone not white. Sorry this entire thread is BS
You obviously haven't read the book. America isn't the focus,
at all. There are no real American characters to speak of, nor does any of the story happen in the United States. The original story doesn't bear out the idea that "all whites become rabid haters of anyone not white," and that's not the implication of this thread either. (And for that matter, as someone who's read a majority of his works, "anti-American" isn't really his shtick. Anti-white supremacists, and maybe more generally anti-Confederate, sure). Why don't you go troll somewhere else.