Did the Japanese stop the Whites from taking over East Asia like the Whites took over the Americas?
If it weren't for the Japanese, East Asia would have been another "North America continent" with countries like "United States" or "Canada".
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1 :
More like Japan tried to take over Asian countries themselves and had to be nuked by the US to stop. Open a history textbook please.
2 :
Its quite likely. It shocked the western world when the Japanese defeated Russia in the Russo-Japanese war. I wish there was as decisive a battle that stopped them from conquering the Americas. Hello: 50 million people isn't a blank canvas. No real cities? What do you call Tenochtitlan? A city of 200,000, with temples, marketplaces, aquaducts,zoos, schools, garbagemen, ball game courts, and aquariums? Thats not a real city to you? The Mississippi Mound civilization? The Iroquios Confederacy, whose constitution the US constitution is based on? Learn history.
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No. The process of colonisation in the Americas and Australia was because they were effectively empty except for primitive civilisation. Asian countries, even the ones conquered/subjugated, had cities (real cities, not a small village in the mountains) armies, governments etc. The Americas were effectively a blank canvas with some easily defeated and un-unified people there. Obviously now what Europeans did during that time is frowned upon but the sad and simple truth is if they hadn't democracy, human rights, electricity, railway etc, would not have spread and most of the world would be under the rule of kings and churches, dieing at the age of 20 from TB.
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No, the most powerful nations at the time, the British Empire and the French Empire; had no interest in settling or colonising East Asia. China, for instance, was too big to control and had no significant products to control and sell, save for coal. That is why European powers built outposts throughout China after the Opium wars: Opium and coal. Russia did have some interest for warm water ports in Korea and Manchuria, but that was only for its trade and navy.
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LOL. Is that what the are teaching in the Japanese history books?
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