Anyone else feel legit sad that Japan's imperial ambitions

>>3380794
its easy to say in hindsight

>>3380794

They've been slow to learn the lesson, "never try to colonize your neighbors". Take that shit to another continent, if Japan had colonized some nigger republic like Spain instead of China, they would be remembered as bringers of civilization on a par with the French and British.

If the military hadn't of gone balls to the wall retarded, Japan would have been the good guys of WW2. Prove me wrong? Modern East Asia is entirely the way it is because of Japanese liberation.

>>3380815
japan loves spanish culture for some reason so yeah not likely to happen

>>3380794
sticking to their comfy island would make more sense than trying to emulate prussians/brits and conquer half of asia desu
i guess revolution is to blame for destroying their society

>>3381243
No, it absolutely would not. Japan is largely barren of natural resources and short on living space. Acquisition of colonies was the only path that made any sense.

>>3381285

Yes and starting that process by pissing off American allies is the stupidest possible way to go about it. Fact is, Japan couldn't figure out a policy that wouldn't have pissed off the US in the 1930s which is how things escalated into Pearl Harbor. If they stood back and waited for Mao to take over, they could have formed an alliance with the US against communism. Their timing was bad so they got their shit kicked in. Same applies to the Third Reich.

Although this issue isn't much a problem anymore thanks to advances in offshore construction and resource extraction, meaning Japan can more easily raid the Pacific for things like oil and minerals. This is especially true if they ever figure out how to do offshore farming.

>>3381342
>If they stood back and waited for Mao to take over
But then the Nationalists would have destroyed the Communists and slowly aimed at the other warlords then when feeling comfident enough liberate Manchuria and Korea. . .

>>3380794
>Pretty much everything Japan did (other than extreme cruelty) was strategically justified.
Yeah, a three fronts war was really a strategical wonder.

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>>3380794
>Murdering 11 million civilians, mass rape, medical experiments, massacres, a competition between two soldiers to see who could kil 100 Chinese civilians first with their katanas
Yeah totally justified.

>dude, if we ignore every bad thing they did they become good! lmao
weeb

>>3380822
>Japanese
>Liberation
You're joking right?

>>3381212
Tell that to the Japanese Brazilians who get called monkeys even though they're 100% ethnic Japanese.

>>3382249
He isn't.

You know all the super successful high-tech countries like South korea, Taiwan, Hong-Kong and Singapore compared to whom even Western Europe looks 3rd world?

They copied 1:1 the meiji model of industrializing.

>>3380794

They really weren't any better or worse than any other historic "empire." However, they were more recent, so their crimes are better documented and fresher in the collective memory.

>>3380794
Literally made an anzac nurse in a pow camp stare at the sun everyday until she went blind. They can be get fucked.

>>3382222
That's just another Tuesday in China though, anon.

>>3383329
That's clever.

>>3382260

japanese get insulted as monkeys all the time though

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2011/jan/28/ki-sung-yeung-monkey-face

>>3380794
They literally tried to commit genocide on my people and eradicate our culture and language. I wish they had enough plutonium for five more nukes.

>>3382260
Brazil is Portuguese anon, not Spanish

>>3383931
You think Japanese can tell a difference when white Americans can't?

>>3383941
Yes