Why wasn't Japan colonized?
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Date: 2023-12-16
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-syncmonism
The Dutch ended up being the perfect trading partner for Japan. They agreed not to try to spread Christianity in Japan, and were only interested in maintaining trade relations. This relationship lasted for quite a long time, and through the importation of written works, gave Japan much better access to academic/ scientific knowledge, technological knowledge, and to the perspectives and ideas of people from other cultures. While the effect was not especially strong, because Japanese society as a whole was relatively conservative and resistant to external influences, they were not as closed to the world as is often supposed.
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The Dutch ended up being the perfect trading partner for Japan. They agreed not to try to spread Christianity in Japan, and were only interested in maintaining trade relations. This relationship lasted for quite a long time, and through the importation of written works, gave Japan much better access to academic/ scientific knowledge, technological knowledge, and to the perspectives and ideas of people from other cultures. While the effect was not especially strong, because Japanese society as a whole was relatively conservative and resistant to external influences, they were not as closed to the world as is often supposed.
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-han_gubi
be a colony, or be a colonizer. if times allow you only two choices, every sane people choose the latter. history is basically winner takes it all.
Almost all countries have a history of invading, conquering, and destroying other countries at least once in their history.
so why people nowdays blame winners of human history? isn't should we focus to learn how winners in human history win their fight, rather than blame their cruelty?
compassion doesn't save your country, but learning stratagies from winners in human history will. after all, history tells there is no eternal winner.
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be a colony, or be a colonizer. if times allow you only two choices, every sane people choose the latter. history is basically winner takes it all.
Almost all countries have a history of invading, conquering, and destroying other countries at least once in their history.
so why people nowdays blame winners of human history? isn't should we focus to learn how winners in human history win their fight, rather than blame their cruelty?
compassion doesn't save your country, but learning stratagies from winners in human history will. after all, history tells there is no eternal winner.
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-ayatahm5227
to colonize you need permission and pay the land you settled, almost every western colony in far east had a leased document for 99 years and could be renewed for another 99 years. but these western powers were bad mostly, they meddled in local government after they had the lease and influenced the local government to favor western believe, if they didn't get what they want they will create chaos within local and install their own puppet in local government even some kings (after making them one of freemasons) were western puppets back then
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to colonize you need permission and pay the land you settled, almost every western colony in far east had a leased document for 99 years and could be renewed for another 99 years. but these western powers were bad mostly, they meddled in local government after they had the lease and influenced the local government to favor western believe, if they didn't get what they want they will create chaos within local and install their own puppet in local government even some kings (after making them one of freemasons) were western puppets back then
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-justinvang561
Japan was mostly resources poor and was pretty much weak as well. It would cost you more than you much more to gain and benefit from conquering and colonizing of Japan. Japan wasn't even worth the effort unless your going to use it as a military base. Why do you think the British went for India in the first place? And even after the British Empire defeated Manchu ruled China in the first Opium War they forced her to pay lots of money than they original lost from the destroyed Opium and other stuffs.
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Japan was mostly resources poor and was pretty much weak as well. It would cost you more than you much more to gain and benefit from conquering and colonizing of Japan. Japan wasn't even worth the effort unless your going to use it as a military base. Why do you think the British went for India in the first place? And even after the British Empire defeated Manchu ruled China in the first Opium War they forced her to pay lots of money than they original lost from the destroyed Opium and other stuffs.
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-nisanses
Still we Japanese are a little afraid of Westerners. Commodore Perry's black ships and the atomic bomb are the reasons for this.
But after the defeat in World War II, we have to do our best as America's little brother.
Japan will never defy the US again.
The essence of Japanese culture lies in loyalty like that of the Samurai. Today, the Samurai boss is unmistakably the United States of America. Please be kind to Japan.
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Still we Japanese are a little afraid of Westerners. Commodore Perry's black ships and the atomic bomb are the reasons for this.
But after the defeat in World War II, we have to do our best as America's little brother.
Japan will never defy the US again.
The essence of Japanese culture lies in loyalty like that of the Samurai. Today, the Samurai boss is unmistakably the United States of America. Please be kind to Japan.
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-HeroicMentality
Another reason I think as a Korean is that Japan met Western forces in their heyday. Unlike Japan, which had the momentum and social stability of its leadership through civil war and the unification immediately afterwards, Korea failed to respond to the enormous power penetrating the era due to internal division of its leadership and subordinate political situation to China, an conqueror in the east.
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Another reason I think as a Korean is that Japan met Western forces in their heyday. Unlike Japan, which had the momentum and social stability of its leadership through civil war and the unification immediately afterwards, Korea failed to respond to the enormous power penetrating the era due to internal division of its leadership and subordinate political situation to China, an conqueror in the east.
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-nobuyuki2010
There is no mention about -Shimabara Rebellion (1637-1638. - After that event ended, Catholic Influence in Japan by Spain and Portugal had been exterminated. Instead Dutch became the only European country which could trade with Japan. Different from this video explanation, Japan was the richest country in gold producing in the world at that time (the 17th Century.
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There is no mention about -Shimabara Rebellion (1637-1638. - After that event ended, Catholic Influence in Japan by Spain and Portugal had been exterminated. Instead Dutch became the only European country which could trade with Japan. Different from this video explanation, Japan was the richest country in gold producing in the world at that time (the 17th Century.
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knowledgia
I hope this serves as a lesson for arrogant foreign men who think they can rule other countries. we were called chinks, coolies, yellow monkeys, nips, japs, etc. I think everyone should look in the mirror and stop blaming Japanese for their past racism and slavery because I have never ever in my life ever heard of a Jap priviledge ever.
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I hope this serves as a lesson for arrogant foreign men who think they can rule other countries. we were called chinks, coolies, yellow monkeys, nips, japs, etc. I think everyone should look in the mirror and stop blaming Japanese for their past racism and slavery because I have never ever in my life ever heard of a Jap priviledge ever.
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-realdemocracy7473
Japan is currently a colony of the US. A country that cannot speak for itself and occupy by another country with o er 30 mjtary bases is not an i dependent country.
Japan is one of the most i debted country if not the most because the US squeezes its throat so tightly. Wake up people.
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Japan is currently a colony of the US. A country that cannot speak for itself and occupy by another country with o er 30 mjtary bases is not an i dependent country.
Japan is one of the most i debted country if not the most because the US squeezes its throat so tightly. Wake up people.
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-kbr-cg5dq
If you can't fly, run. If you can't run, you should walk. If you can't walk, just crawl. We must keep moving forward no matter what-It is also the reason that all Japanese people had this spirit. A miracle like this will never happen again. Never waste it. let's learn
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If you can't fly, run. If you can't run, you should walk. If you can't walk, just crawl. We must keep moving forward no matter what-It is also the reason that all Japanese people had this spirit. A miracle like this will never happen again. Never waste it. let's learn
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-Tegawe
I seen the title of this and thought of the Japanese resistance in WW2. it was so strong that we had to drop a brand new, devestating, atom splitting bomb to get them to cave. secondly, Japanese once had a culture that bred Samurais and the ideas that follow that.
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I seen the title of this and thought of the Japanese resistance in WW2. it was so strong that we had to drop a brand new, devestating, atom splitting bomb to get them to cave. secondly, Japanese once had a culture that bred Samurais and the ideas that follow that.
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knowledgia
the title is so dumb, it sounds like another white supremacist video that indirectly implies Japan as a backward savage country. as expected, more Japanese bashing to redeem all the unfair treaty that foreign powers imposed on Asian countries.
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the title is so dumb, it sounds like another white supremacist video that indirectly implies Japan as a backward savage country. as expected, more Japanese bashing to redeem all the unfair treaty that foreign powers imposed on Asian countries.
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knowledgia
I thought you were going to mention the fact that they were almost conquered by the Mongols twice, only for both times to be thwarted by storms, with some sources claiming these storms are the root of the kami kaze or wind god in Shintoism.
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I thought you were going to mention the fact that they were almost conquered by the Mongols twice, only for both times to be thwarted by storms, with some sources claiming these storms are the root of the kami kaze or wind god in Shintoism.
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-deadandbored
The japanese learned to make western weapons due to their many civil wars. The chinese never advanced their weaponry despite inventing gunpowder which is why they got their asses handed to them by western powers
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The japanese learned to make western weapons due to their many civil wars. The chinese never advanced their weaponry despite inventing gunpowder which is why they got their asses handed to them by western powers
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knowledgia
Portugal, at its best could had captured one of the most lucrative islands, the most western ones.
By no means Portugal, Spain, France, England could had fully conquered the entire archipelago, thats for sure
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Portugal, at its best could had captured one of the most lucrative islands, the most western ones.
By no means Portugal, Spain, France, England could had fully conquered the entire archipelago, thats for sure
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-user-br7hd7no7f
Currently, Japan, South Korea and Taiwan have become political and cultural colonies of the United States, only they don't know it.
Countries that are not American colonies are said to be dangerous.
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Currently, Japan, South Korea and Taiwan have become political and cultural colonies of the United States, only they don't know it.
Countries that are not American colonies are said to be dangerous.
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-mitchellmaerz8429
Because they're like native American Indians they'd rather not work or commit suicide and they're willing to fight and they don't want to always put up with some other people's problems
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Because they're like native American Indians they'd rather not work or commit suicide and they're willing to fight and they don't want to always put up with some other people's problems
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-codybalram3908
Japan was already advance when Europeans came. they couldn't be entirely pushed around like other parts of the world. they became even more advanced after modernizing at a rapid pace.
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Japan was already advance when Europeans came. they couldn't be entirely pushed around like other parts of the world. they became even more advanced after modernizing at a rapid pace.
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-shin9926e
Incorrect.
Actually, Japan's civilization was equal to or higher than Europe's, and the samurai must have been quite strong, so the reality is that they couldn't get their hands on it.
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Incorrect.
Actually, Japan's civilization was equal to or higher than Europe's, and the samurai must have been quite strong, so the reality is that they couldn't get their hands on it.
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-tk4826
The high literacy rate was one of the biggest reasons Japan quickly adopted the European military. They were successfully modernized and became a coloniser from a Japanese point of view.
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The high literacy rate was one of the biggest reasons Japan quickly adopted the European military. They were successfully modernized and became a coloniser from a Japanese point of view.
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-44excalibur
Japan was already colonized by the Yamato tribe from China during the 7th century AD, who displaced the native indigenous Ainu tribe and took over the entire Japanese Islands.
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Japan was already colonized by the Yamato tribe from China during the 7th century AD, who displaced the native indigenous Ainu tribe and took over the entire Japanese Islands.
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-jackmckeown616
Yeah i think japan wasnt colonized because nobody could colonize them, and for no other reason. Im sure all European powers wanted to, but nobody realistically could have.
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Yeah i think japan wasnt colonized because nobody could colonize them, and for no other reason. Im sure all European powers wanted to, but nobody realistically could have.
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-HipposHateWater
I mean, if you consider the Ainu the original inhabitants of the Japanese archipelago, it could be said that the Japanese islands were indeed colonized
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I mean, if you consider the Ainu the original inhabitants of the Japanese archipelago, it could be said that the Japanese islands were indeed colonized
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-silvabakx6396
the Portuguese were certainly some of the biggest slavers known to mankind. their current economy is based on old money made from the slave trading days
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the Portuguese were certainly some of the biggest slavers known to mankind. their current economy is based on old money made from the slave trading days
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-oh_kuwa
Satsu ei sensou de Saigo Takamori ga obey rekkyo yabai to kanji, fukoku kyohei wo oshi susumeta tame, shokuminchi shihai wo manugareta to iwarete imasu.
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Satsu ei sensou de Saigo Takamori ga obey rekkyo yabai to kanji, fukoku kyohei wo oshi susumeta tame, shokuminchi shihai wo manugareta to iwarete imasu.
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-mariobeduya5187
Real talk the colonizers afraid what they saw, they cannot withstand the fighting style of samurai, they well beheaded upon returning to europe
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Real talk the colonizers afraid what they saw, they cannot withstand the fighting style of samurai, they well beheaded upon returning to europe
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-ISAF_Ace
My only gripe is that it wasn't just European nations which practiced colonisation. The two most famous examples are the Zulu Empire and the USA
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My only gripe is that it wasn't just European nations which practiced colonisation. The two most famous examples are the Zulu Empire and the USA
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-mariobeduya5187
The Mongolian warrior tried to colonized japan, but they lost to samurai warrior, japanese warriors are greatest, justified by time.
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The Mongolian warrior tried to colonized japan, but they lost to samurai warrior, japanese warriors are greatest, justified by time.
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-radenakbar
Would have been interesting if Kubilai Khan had successfully conquered Japan. Maybe they would have been more fierceful with Mongol blood
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Would have been interesting if Kubilai Khan had successfully conquered Japan. Maybe they would have been more fierceful with Mongol blood
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