How did Japan catch up to the rest of East Asia so fast?

How did Japan catch up to the rest of East Asia so fast?

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They saw what was happening to China and said fuck that shit. They decided to learn the white man's ways so that they could surpass the nanban.

korean rice farmers moved in

They copied and learnt from China.
Is that really difficult to understand?

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Nice meme. Chinese culture is dead

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China isnt communist anymore

Shut the fuck up, you fucktarded weeb. That meme which you posted, is fucking retarded. China practically civilized Nip sub-humans, and China is older than Nipland.

Nowadays Chinese GDP is vastly superior to that of Dying Nipland, and China slowly takes over world's economy while Nip-monkeys are stuck being US colony/vassal state.

Oh, and Nips entirely copied Chinese writing and Kanji, you dumb fucktard. China is, and was for 3000 years, superior to Nips.

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Uhmm... so fast? Japan has been an irrelevent shithole for most of its existance, apart from 1868-1945 period. Then they got conquered by white man, and are their slaves to this day. Chines is the leading power of East Asia now.

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Wtf does Tianmen have to do with China being second industrial power of the world now? China is much more relevant that Nipland now, and its a fact. Nips do not even have an industrial base to build their military up, their economy is now entirely service economy, based on Anime/waifu pillows and degenerate JAV.

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Calm down, Chang. Despite being a small island Japan still conquered your asses a few times and that's all that needs to be said about your 3k supremacy. Though I should say it's never not funny watching immigrants living in first world countries squirming about MUH SUPERIOR CULTURE when both Korea and Japan took elements of it, improved on them and are undeniably better known in the rest of the world. But maybe China might have soft power. I heard they're copying Korean/Japanese idol culture to great effect.

Gook

>korea
>better than anyone

good joke, user.

Wrong, you dumb fucktard. Nips did not ''conquer'' China, they only managed to capture few coastal cities in WW2, and only due to inernal tumoirl, you stupid fucktard. China WON over the Japs, in ww2, they pushed the nip sub-humans out.

Japan is NOT known over the world, China is. China will be the world BIGGEST power in just 7 short years, while Nips have falling economy, 250% GDP as debt, and dying population.

China allways was superior, it still is nowadays.

Nip-sub-human

Weeb fucktard edtected.

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>Chinese culture is dead
It's not dead, faggot. I am not even Chinese, and I get tired of this kind of rhetoric.

Just ignore them. Their culture doesn't foster basic hospitality. There's a point where bantz becomes abuse, and they don't understand that.

>Chinese culture is dead
Nice meme.

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Nah, we are alive and well. And soon we'll free our Japanese brethren from American imperialists' clutches, they'll be one of us again, worry not!

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Stealing Western technology

>1.5 billion Chinese people
>hurdur their culture is dead

Your average starving illiterate Sichuanese farmer is still starving and illiterate and worships the same eight legged elephant god as always.

Have you ever been to China? The communists absolutely destroyed them, they are subhumans now.

Japan did not conquer China even once, let alone a few times.

The fact that you have to talk about "National Anthem" and "Flags" shows how westerncucked both countries are anyway.

Yep because China pre-1949 was heaven on Earth and extremely cultured.

>Japan
>Confucian society
"FUCK OFF MOM, I DON'T WANT TO HAVE BABIES, I AM A SUCCESSFUL CAREER WOMAN."
or
"Real women disgust me desu, I'd rather stick to muh animes."

Willingness to not get too stubborn about their historical form of existence but still maintain the parts that matter spiritually. Physical distance from a China bully and Western bully plus big enough population that made them able to run their own show. Conformity and consensus culture that allowed them operate as a single unit (relatively). High IQ society able to quickly receive education. Combination of respect for a hierarchy plus that hierarchy being basically benevolent towards its own people.

Such a traditional and based culture my fellow MAGApedes!

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China made a lot of Japan’s cultural innovations, but one has to admit that in a lot of ways Japan is the one carrying the torch. I’m not making the exaggerative claim that Chinese culture is “dead,” but the Maoists really has their way with it and seemingly had an effect on the culture’s entire ethos.

And in my view, the torch is passing back to China.

Every major technological innovation is coming out of China now. Japan is falling behind technologically and in business. It is only known for pixelated porn and anime now, which is honestly pathetic.

Calling Japan as a torch-bearer is largely rather funny because what Japan has is a snapshot of Chinese Culture (Tang-Song period) while Chinese culture just kept on changing.

eastasiaforum.org/2016/10/03/the-ccp-returns-to-chinese-cultural-roots/

sbs.com.au/news/the-young-nationalists-reviving-traditional-chinese-culture

wsj.com/amp/articles/why-china-is-turning-back-to-confucius-1442754000

nytimes.com/2017/10/13/sunday-review/xi-jinping-china.html

Chinese traditional culture and religion is on the upswing bigtime in China.

jamestown.org/program/xi-jinping-chinas-traditionalist-restoration/

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"No"

t. Xi Jinping. Reign name: the Gaozu Emperor of Hong Dynasty.

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m.theepochtimes.com/xi-jinping-lauds-chinese-culture-in-unusually-bare-terms_2193208.html

chinafile.com/reporting-opinion/culture/xi-jinping-whats-wrong-contemporary-chinese-culture

sinosphere.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/11/04/china-weighing-more-emphasis-on-traditional-culture-in-textbooks/

*blocks your path*

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Well no, but at least people had a sense of empathy. There is a total disregard for life and decency there now as a result of the communist mind-pozzing for 50 years.

Japanese culture isn’t a snapshot of China. It’s a snapshot of China with a lot of changing stuff built onto it.

The torch is passing back to China in terms of technology, definitely. In terms of culture? Maybe. The Chinese government has been making efforts to rebuild Confucian practices and morality. The Japanese are more focused now on their culturally unique elements. We’ll see if the Chinese knew it up or if they slide back to “pragmatism.” And we’ll also see if Japan regrets it’s decision. I happen to think native Japanese culture is quite charming.

It did control parts of it, and that is what I meant.
At least they recognize they just switched from one Western influence to another. I wonder if the chinese can make the jump back to a less subhuman society.

Looks pretty western to me

Shut the fuck up, you dumb gook. Japa despise chinks.

Wrong. Japs literally fucking copied superior Chinese culture and that all there is to it.

> Ch-China isn't Communist
Doesn't invalidate the cultural extermination caused by policies put in place by Communists.

Just because they claimed to be Communists doesn't mean they were doing anything actively to help the cause.

Korean Buddhist monks civilized the japs and brought them into the fold of East Asia. The monks from guoryeo also passed on Hangul which is the basis of Japanese writing.

Ironic shitposting is still shitposting, you fearmongering retard.

>Well no, but at least people had a sense of empathy.
Any source for that?

Anime is trash and I’d hate if my nation was known for it

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>It did control parts of it, and that is what I meant.

No. No it is not.

You clearly wrote two sentences with words that made your views explicit.

Japan never even once “conquered China”.

>cultural extermination

Any credible source for this? How is this even possible? Chinese culture looks basically the same as it did in 1948.

The only real change has been westernization. And that happened to a larger extent in Japan and Korea.

excuse me if I'm wrong but didn't the chinese cultural revolution essentially achieve that?

Japan definitely has more culture. You've obviously never visited the two countries.

In terms of high culture (Kabuki, sumo, Buddhism, emperor traditions, tea ceremony) Japan still has much stronger living tradition.

In terms of social culture, Japan has more of Confucian society. China has no respect or honor. Chinese are very rude.

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I have nothing against the Chinese as such, being a mere Balkan Slav. But my outsider perspective is this - China is making crucial mistakes. It has failed to develop an authentic culture in the 21st century, and there's something rather obscene about them parading the corpses of their culture in a bid for recognition when they themselves have killed it. Their international doings seem crude, primitive, brutal to the point of vulgarity and wholly amoral. They're basically acting as if it's the late 19th century. They have failed to learn the lessons Japan and european colonial powers have learned. There's something deeply unpleasant and downright suicidal (in the long run) about their bid for hegemony.

In contrast Japan has no such issues. Japan's culture is alive and well, far more than any other in the world currently. Their doings are reasonable and I can both trust and respect them. You can shitpost about how anime sucks as much as you want, but it is indeed the most vibrant and lively form of pop culture in the world and you can clearly see how it is built upon solid foundations of japanese aesthetics, religion and so on. Unless you're a tard. But this is Veeky Forums so this is unlikely to be understood.

Japan has lost nothing and it will not lose. China is killing itself without realizing it. They failed to grasp that they should've calmed the fuck down, accumulate wealth, fix their internal shit and then emerge as a force to be reckoned with organically and peacefully. But they can't do that it seems. The party cannot act this way.

I said copied and then developed on top of. How well does Xi pay?
Korean nationalism is a hell of a drug.
>the non-Chinese parts of Japanese culture are all anime

One primarily relies on cheesy reconstructions of their culture while the other has extant continued traditions.

i don't know enough about international politics. But it seems to me, that japan is somehow accepted by the USA. Japan is so small that it is not perceived as a threat to the hegemony of the usa. Thus japan is not worried to get fucked over by the USA through some geopolitical tactics. China is perceived as a threat, so they might think that they have to take an active role and display and engage in the global power struggle in order to survive. Japan doesn't have the same ambitions because they have no chance of succiding. China thinks that they can have strong global influence, and thats the reason for why they are trying

me in the middle

>Nips did not ''conquer'' China, they only managed to capture few coastal cities in WW2, and only due to inernal tumoirl, you stupid fucktard. China WON over the Japs,

>Nips did not ''conquer'' China, they only managed to capture few coastal cities in WW2, and only due to inernal tumoirl, you stupid fucktard. China WON over the Japs,

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Maybe you should check your eyes or brain.

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Yeah, China won over the Japs in WW2.

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When is this nigger going to drop the pretenses and restore the monarchy?

>has no response
>posts brainlet meme

Japan never conquered China. You don't "conquer" someone by controlling coastal cities.

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Okay Chang.

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That would remove power from him though. I doubt he'd be up to a symbolic monarchy like in Japan.

nice joke, chang

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I guess the Soviets were conquered by Nazis then because so many of them died.

not only that, but japan took every land that mattered in china, especially the central plains which is the heartland and the symbol of china. you don't have to occupy every inch of a country to conquer it, not to mention the fact china then was not as large as it is now - the war was before they annexed tibet and uygur.

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>Central plains.
>Important in 20th Century China.
>"before they annexed tibet and uygur."
Shows how much of a brainlet you are in Asian history really.

Oh and I should add
>Control of cities = control of whole areas
lmao.

It's from a shitty meme that they are trying to create in /int/

retarded excuses. the sole reason why china survived is the support from the allies and the us-japan war. china itself was just being conquered and raped by japan, that's it.

>japan would have won if china didn't have allies
>everyone who disagrees with me is Chang

None of this changes the fact that Japan lost, and China never surrendered, and you need to do more than control cities to conquer a country.

Shut the fuck up, you smelly fucktarded weeb. Chinese were curbstomping Nip niggers by the end of the war, and were about to rekake last coastal cities that Japs still held in their possesion.

Nips never fucking conqured Chinese plains, you stupid fucktard. They only captured coastal cities.

Oh, and counting slaughtered civilians as military casaulties? You are trully sub-human. Japanese sub-humans only managed to gain small Chinese ground because of civil-war in China.

As soon as it was over, United China has proven to be superior.

And by the way... the entire Nip garrison in China was less than 1 million people, with only 70% of those being combat units. They literally only had like 900 tanks in the entire China, and relied COMPLETELY on horse logistics. Jap ground army was pathetically weak, and did not succeded in beating China.

For comparison, Germany had 2.7 thousand tanks in the battle of Kurse alone.

>>the sole reason why china survived is the support from the allies and the us-japan war.

Wrong, you smelly nip nigger. China was holding on, even before pearl harbor for 4 years.

Japanese are trully sub-human.

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Japanese ''culture'' is degenerate filth, and I am not even talking about Anime. Japan stole/copied anything of relevance from China, then from the west.

China still has much better culture than degenerate and sadistic Nips, this much is clear.

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>>China has no respect or honor.

Neither does Japan. Japan is a society build on shame, not honor. Big difference. Nip will not feel any shame for slaughtering and raping women, if he was not caught.