What makes this land so amazing, so more historically rich, powerful and interesting than the rest of Asia? Time and time again it stood strong for all of history and even today has one of the best living standards in the East.
Is it incorrect to call Japan or "The Land of the Rising Sun", the jewel of the East?
The Japanese are literal master race. Only the best can survive on that earthquake-prone mountainous land.
Michael Sullivan
The land and its people are blessed by the Gods
Christopher Torres
>it's a "disgusting weeb neckbeard gushes about Japan and sucks the nation's cock even though grorious China was a more civirized civirization untir the 18th century, and will rise over Shitpan" episode
Justin Adams
Isolating itself in the era of colonialism (so it wasn't conquered by the Portuguese, Dutch, or Brits), then accepting industrialization/modernization after the Boshin War.
Was able to bounce back after WWII thanks to industrial policy and US investment, now a major industrial, technological, and cultural power.
Benjamin Morales
>US investment Wrong.
Ayden Moore
>What makes this land so amazing, so more historically rich, powerful and interesting China is way more interesting than Japan historically speaking >Powerful Lol. They've been castrated for a good time now Now back to /jp/, /s4s/ whatever hole you crawled out of
Jonathan Parker
>Jealous ch*nk shitting their buthurt on every Japanese thread Fuck off
Jeremiah Baker
>Isolating itself in the era of colonialism So did China and they still got BTFO'd. And that being said I don't see the Portugese or Dutch being able to take over. Brit's probably.
Nathan Parker
>What makes this land so amazing, so more historically rich, powerful and interesting than the rest of Asia? Pop culture and good marketing strategy.
Logan Rodriguez
Japan industrialized earlier and China was ripping itself apart in the 19th century.
Levi Johnson
>interesting Persia, India and China are much more interesting.
Alexander Adams
I wouldn't exactly call it more powerful or richer than the rest of Asia. Not even historically. It is impressive that they invaded China a few times but they got pushed back each time. Right now, China is a powerhouse and Japan is tiny sitting next to it. Does it have the best living standard? Is Japan better than the rest of Asia? No. For an example they have a work mentality that is just insane. In English people say "good luck" but in Japan they say "work your hardest." Drag by working too hard is so common that it is a legal term used as a cause of death. Everyone drives each other to work super hard and that leaves no room for family life or much else. It is a very soul draining process that is kind of forced on you by the community around you. Is Japan the jewel of the east or whatever? Truly? Well. Japan would be nowhere without American economic support. Without all those military bases and a defensive pact they could easily be overrun by China. Is Japan an INTERESTING place with a UNIQUE CULTURE? ...Yes. But calling it historically richer and more powerful than the rest of Asia...? A stretch. A far stretch.
Nicholas Turner
>Japanese Internet Defense Force at work Thank you for correcting the record! 1000 yen have been deposited into your account. 良い一日を
Julian Perez
It's really not. You're just deluded because you're a weaboo
Cooper Bell
They made the best animu about BASED persian BTFO franks, t*rks. indians and arabs (arslan senki)
Nolan Wright
>interesting than the rest of Asia More than Sumer, Egypt, Babylon, Persia, etc? Hmmm, I don't think so.
Christopher Watson
>haha you ale so mad ah, weeaboos ale dumb. China will glow lagel in dah futule.
Christian Campbell
t. stupid virgin autist who obsesses over K-on and thinks it's the pinnacle of civilization, ignoring the evident Chinese contributions to snownigger culture like silk
>a culture based on copy and pasting the achievements of the cultures around it is more interesting than the cultures that developed imported practices
Yeah, nah, you're a cunt
William Morgan
>leeee gweilo zhonghua da best any othel nations ale uncivilized balbalian, plaise mao (proceeds to shit on a city street)
Jayden Smith
Pic related
Jason Stewart
K-On is actually the pinnacle of civilization though why should I care about fucking silk
Cameron Barnes
You wanna know why you're annoying? no, its not because you belief that you're superior to them, no its not even because of your shitty chink attitude, its because you're constantly shitting and whine to everyone about it, nobody does this except you ch*nk autists, imagine if every Roman thread got derailed by a Greek saying wewuz this, wewuz influencing them, we are better than them and shit. So what? who cares? thats what you're doing right now Fuck off
Owen Rogers
Japan's modernization is cool but apart from that they were just copying Chinese stuff for thousands of years. India and the Near East are also much more interesting than Japan.
Kayden Richardson
>Japan always rips off China Yeah, no. They don't imitate this, for example.
Dylan Morris
Anime as a subculture is unironically more interesting than any other contemporary asian culture.
Oliver Torres
It's no more historically rich than China, probably less so. The difference is that Japan is a great country today which has immense pride in its heritage and has successfully exported its culture around the world. China, on the other hand, is not a first world country and is made up of peasants who live ignorant of their own history and culture. I've known many wealthy and highly literate Chinese people, and I can tell you with certainty that it would be easier to find one with blue eyes than one who cares more about Chinese culture than about the latest Louis Vuitton handbag.
Sebastian Wilson
Oh look a high schooler. Keep studying though for real.
Trade.
Brody King
Sorry to burst your WeeabooMasculinity bubble, but making up retarded lies like "Japan is the most powerful in all of Asia" is just hilarious. Maybe don't start threads with that if you don't want to get shit on
Joshua Hernandez
He's a chink he doesn't understand subtle trolling. Onry full force.
Dominic Rodriguez
Im not even the one who makes the thread, don't pretend chinks didn't do this to other threads
Adam Bennett
Fuck ""japanese"" people they killed and enslaved the ainu peoples who were the first to inhabit that land.
Justin Sullivan
>Japan >Unique culture Lmao
India is massively underrated.
Jaxon Green
Reminder: Buddha was Nepalese, not Indian. That is all.
Parker Rodriguez
>I'm not even the one who made this thread, don't chinks haven't done this to other threads
LEARN FUCKING ENGLISH GOOKS
Carson Brooks
Reminder: Alexander the Great was Macedonian, not Greek. That is all.
>Buddha was Nepalese Buddha had his enlightenment within India and he was born as a Hindu. He started preaching across the Gangetic plains before he even went to preach in Southern Nepal..The king who spread Buddhism all the way across Eurasia to Japan and other Sino countries was also Indian.
He's as Indian as it gets.
Hudson Bell
>He's as Indian as it gets Ignore that bit. I meant Buddhism is as Indian as it gets.
Carter Miller
>Sino countries What's that?
Jaxon Morris
Maybe they meant Sinosphere.
Mason Baker
You're retarded.
Logan Moore
>Egypt >Asia really makes you think
Adam Phillips
>What makes this land so amazing, so more historically rich, powerful and interesting than the rest of Asia? You're deluded, Weeb. Nips only became major player after mid 19th century.
Pic here is your precious Nips before they got Chinked. They're nothing but island niggas before this.
Adrian Kelly
Btw, even their names "Nippon", "Nihhon", "Japan" or "Wa" is derived from Chinese. So amazing.
Owen Bailey
>They actually had culture back then instead of a cheap copypasta of chinky pagodas What happened
Tyler Martinez
Rice.
Logan Powell
What you talking about? Chinese architecture looks nice to me.
Brayden Davis
What was Japanese architecture like before Chinese influence?
Evan Gray
>amazing >historically rich >powerful What about Persia, India, China, Mesopotamia? They have it good today and have been relevant for the past few centuries(especially the last one) but really few people gave a shit about some piss poor islands. West of them you find an abundance of fertile landmass and culture stemming from ancient civilization, lands that have hosted the most historically important empires and where some of the greatest achievements of mankind took place. Compared to what? Weird porn and good gadgets? A forgotten code of honor? Drawings?
Ryder Russell
>Mesopotamia >have it good today
what
Julian Morales
>Persia
Into the trash
>India
POO
>China
Lost to fucking Mongols they outnumbered 1000 to 1
>Mesopotamia
Stopped being relevant too long ago
Benjamin King
>Lost to fucking Mongols they outnumbered 1000 to 1 All invading forces are outnumbered 1000 to 1 by the general population. or example, when Constantinople fell the population of the city was 5 million compared to Mehmed's forces of only 50,000.
Levi Rogers
>when Constantinople fell the population of the city was 5 million proof?
Owen Edwards
>Into the trash Much more relevant than Nipland >POO Memes aren't valid arguments >Lost to fucking Mongols they outnumbered 1000 to 1 Nips lost to an enemy they outnumbered 840 to 1
Caleb Sanchez
The population of Constantinople was probably no more than 200,000 at the time.
Levi Mitchell
I was talking about Japan, not Mesopotamia, in the second sentence. Let me put it to you this way, each of those places contributed more to the advancement of mankind in the ancient era than japan in it's entire lifespan.
Jace Perez
All those countries are uninteresting shitholes compared to Japan and the West
If facts are bait then so be it. There was never any Meiji restoration in those shitholes like Iran and India because they suck. Chinese were smoking opium while Japan was rising to another level.
Sebastian Allen
If you're not trolling you've got to be the most unenlightened mouthbreather that I've seen on Veeky Forums
Joshua Brooks
In 1400 Constantinople was described as a ''couple villages connected together'', and during the siege of 1453 the citys population was estimated to be around 50,000 - 60,000 including refugees from outside of the city.
Josiah Clark
>There was never any Meiji restoration in those shitholes like Iran and India because they suck. The Meiji restoration isn't interesting at all tho. >Chinese were smoking opium while Japan was rising to another level. You fucking weebs are so pathetic.
Grayson Foster
>t. Darius Gupta Zheng
Aaron Ramirez
>He's as Indian as it gets. He was a literal Scythian though.
Caleb Sanchez
I find Japan very interesting. But are they THE most interesting Asian country? That's subjective. To you they must be but for me I find other oddities like the SEA's to be just as interesting.
The real answer to the question of Buddha's ethnicity is that nobody really knows. He was from the 'Shakyas' clan but they were very mixed with other Brahmins when they came over to Nepal. He could have been mixed with anything from Iran, India or an Asian native of Nepal.
Something that confuses people is the "32 signs of a Buddha" mentioned in the old Sutras, supposedly describing what he and all Buddhas look like. It's a strange bit of writing that includes such things as all Buddhas must have blue eyes and should be taken with a grain of salt like all the archaic literature of the times.
Matthew Mitchell
In what way
Asher Martin
>a bunch of tattooed gwailo midgets constantly fighting each other is the "jewel" of Asia
I just don't get it
Joshua Harris
Tentacle rape is more important in world history than Buddhism and gunpowder
David Jackson
Mostly pit houses. I guess they're charming in their own way.
Angel Ramirez
Too bad this country will be under water in a few centuries
Elijah Sanders
N-nani! Baka Baka Baka!!
John Peterson
Japan was cool until they gave it all up to be the white mans bitch. Even today they constantly seek the approval of whites. Truly shamefur.
Although Japan Westernized at a strange time when the West was undeniably the strongest force in the world by far. They've never let go of that inferiority complex which morphs into a superiority complex when dealing with other nations, even a country half its size like South Korea is now outcompeting Japanese industry.
Isaac Jones
>born as a hindu [Citation needed]
Kayden Fisher
>used to be hardcore weeaboo >thought Japan was the greatest Asian country ever >actually study East Asian history >I'm now a hardcore Tangboo
Everything in Asia, even now, is honestly shit compared to the Tang and Song dynasties.
Liam Miller
>Into the trash Far historically richer than Japs.
>POO Not an argument.
>Lost to fucking Mongols they outnumbered 1000 to 1 More like the other way around, Yuan dynasty were far more stronger and bigger than Southern Song, Song dynasty was already declined heavily before Mongol conquest.
>Stopped being relevant too long ago They laid the foundation of most major civilizations we see today. Far more important than Nips.
Jordan Ward
China was never civilized.
>China enshrines Confucianism >is an authoritarian shit hole that goes through civil war, gets conquered by invaders, etc. every other century
>Japan enshrines Confucianism >is a feudal shit hole engaged in civil war >lessens the Confucianism for more western influenced ideologies >goes from being a "peaceful" and famine plagued time capsule that spent two centuries in stagnation to a world power in under half a century
Confucianism is cancer.
Colton Miller
Seriously, why are Japs such manlets? Even Koreans aren't that short.
Adrian Price
China was never really Confucian. Confucianism and Taoism were almost always simply a facade disguising the true Legalist foundation of China's governing philosophy.
Joseph Green
>Japan nearly copied everything from China >"hur dur China was never civilized" Such a great argument.
>Confucianism, a foundation of Japanese Bushido, is cancer... Brilliant insult.
I see /pol/tier weeb is striking again.
Joseph Gomez
Japan is without a doubt, the best place on earth.
Angel Kelly
>China enshrines Confucianism >is an authoritarian shit hole that goes through civil war, gets conquered by invaders, etc. every other century
The first Chinese dynasty who enshrined Confucianism is Han dynasty, which was one of most powerful and influential states on Earth. Also, Tang dynasty, another super power, was also enshrined Confucianism along with Daoism.
Nathaniel Foster
>>Japan >>lessens the Confucianism for more western influenced ideologies >>goes from being a "peaceful" and famine plagued time capsule that spent two centuries in stagnation to a world power in under half a century
What was Asia-Pacific War? What was WW2? What was pearl harbor? What was 731? What was Nankin massacre? What was comfort women? What was Bataan Death March? Did your grandma not getting rape enough?
Matthew Johnson
Note that the usurpation that separated Western Han and Eastern Han totally fucked everything up in large part because of the usurper emperor Wang Mang's Confucian fundamentalism obsession, without regard for what was actually practical for running the empire.
Camden Price
This thread is sad, a lot of people seem to hate Japan, without knowing anything about it because of...anime?
No matter how you look at it, Japan was clearly a very advanced civilization since the heian period. Not every country produced something like the Tale of Genji. The Meiji revolution and industrialisation of Japan happened because it already was a very developed country, thus the Japanese were very quick to assimilate the knowledge from the west.
Luis Cox
Legalism and Confucianism were both the foundation of traditional Chinese political system.
And I don't know if you know this but "Legalism" was not an actual independent school before Han dynasty, it was a sub branch of Confucianism. The name "Legalism" was invented by Western Han scholar Sima Tan. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sima_Tan
Brayden Ramirez
>This thread is sad, a lot of people seem to hate Japan... OP wouldn't get so much backlash if he didn't start the thread like this "What makes this land so amazing, so more historically rich, powerful and interesting than the rest of Asia."
>Japan was clearly a very advanced civilization since the heian period. That's exactly one of bullshits which caused backlash, it's not true really and many people here already explained it. They're doing good after they're Sinicized and Westernized but not before and not always.
Jonathan Thompson
>it was a sub branch of Confucianism. Besides the part where Legalists considered Confucian scholars to be a thread society
Ian Green
I think it's cool how the economics of feudalism played out and when I was researching how the monetary system worked the idea of debts, promissory notes and money in general made a lot more sense. Also why anarchocapitalism wouldn't ever work. I think Japan is an excellent example of it.
Colton Allen
*threat to society
Elijah Barnes
>They're doing good after they're Sinicized and Westernized but not before and not always Great, because Japan is already sinicized during the heian period....
Jacob Parker
Its mostly just chink sperging
Jose Bell
>Japan is already sinicized during the heian period Yes and they're still the minor power in East Asia(not to mention to whole world) until 16th century, they only went big league after 19th century.
James Flores
Koreans sperg out way harder than Chinese, if you weren't some likely non-Jap you'd know this. Japan doesn't need white ignorant weeaboos to defend it, actually most Japanese deeply respect traditional Chinese civilization.
Andrew Carter
>What makes Japan so amazing, so more historically rich, powerful and interesting than the rest of Asia? Said no one ever.