Anyone else feel legit sad that Japan's imperial ambitions were never fulfilled?

Anyone else feel legit sad that Japan's imperial ambitions were never fulfilled?

Pretty much everything Japan did (other than extreme cruelty) was strategically justified.

Not even a weeb.

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its easy to say in hindsight

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.

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

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

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.

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.

>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. . .

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

>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

>Japanese
>Liberation
You're joking right?

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

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.

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.

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

That's just another Tuesday in China though, user.

That's clever.

japanese get insulted as monkeys all the time though

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

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.

Brazil is Portuguese user, not Spanish

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

Yes