WI Japan doesn't sinicize?

yoyo

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That's... a great simplification? Sure we don't know a lot about prehistoric Japan, but there is records of Sinic contact since the Wei dynasty and mentions of Wa people on China that would eventually come back and spread whatever they learned in China, Japan wasn't so isolationist as commonly portrayed.


Korea (South) would disagree.
Tibetans and Chinese had contact since the Qin Dynasty and yet did not sinicize. I'm thinking that Japan evolved along the lines of the Philippines in not adopting chinese culture despite close proximity. Philippines was very close to south china but did not sinicize since there was no maritime sinified state it can form ties with. Japan had ties with Baekje, and without a kingdom like baekje it would hard for Japan to adopt chinese culture as other states were land focused and less inclined to provide aid. Southern wasn't occupied but northern korea was, with North korea occupying the south.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Commanderies_of_Han
 
Tibetans and Chinese had contact since the Qin Dynasty and yet did not sinicize.
Th beginning of Tibetan history comes from trans-Himalayan contact between Zhangzhung and India, at the time China was in the middle of the Warring states, by the time the Qin unified the country Tibet already had an established civilization with strong Indian ethos. That is also disregarding the strong Chinese influence Tibet had through history. Japan only way into "civilization" is China, in fact China and Korea were the only places that had place in Japanese imaginarium (alongside the far, far away India/Tenjiku were most wouldn't ever go) until the arrival of the Portuguese.

Southern wasn't occupied but northern korea was, with North korea occupying the south.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Commanderies_of_Han
I said South Korea, so the North doesn't matter, also it was the other way around, Gogoryeo conquered northern Korea from the Wei, not the other way around, Gogoryeo, Silla and Baekje being native Korean kingdoms that absorbed Chinese culture without conquest.
 
Well there was an attempt by the Yayoi queen Himiko to open relations with Cao Wei but that relations disappeared when China collapsed into the chinese dark ages and once again Japan(then known as WA) became isolated again
 
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