What do you think of Japanese Empire before ww2?

>>1899003

too few battleships. More battleships!

>>1899003

Aggressive bullies who expanded their power by enslaving their weaker neighbors. So basically just like every historical empire.

Their biggest mistake was starting a war with the US.

Things seemed to be going well but there were serious political and economic problems that bubbled to the surface after the great depression.

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I like the fact that they made a deal with pro-Ottoman sympathizers to create a Turkic state in eastern China which angered the Ataturk government.

>>1899010
Crippled in the only battle it was used in by a torpedo from a destroyer escort.

>>1899022
Did the Ottomans and Japanese Empire interact much?

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>>1899030
Not really, since relations didn't start until the end of the 19th century and during WW1 they fought on opposite sides.

Our greatest moment as allies was when one of our ships sunk outside the coast of Japan and they saved our sailors to ship them home.

>>1899003
Meme tier, more so than the Ottomans but Japan has a much stronger cultural export than Turkey so everyone here hates the Ottoman Empire while there's heaps of weeb revisionists

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>>1899003

Truly an Alpha nation. Other countries ought to replicate them in terms of mercilessness against the enemy and passion for duty.

>>1899085
>Before ww2

>>1899003
Wonderful and every place that was under their dominion would be better off today had it remained that way.

>>1899070
/thread

Actually decent as colonist in the sense they improved infrastructure

>>1899003
They did okay until the some things at home messed up things.