Nippon has the second rate of leadership and talent, that's why they are wannabe and always failed to build up their own empire.
They only learnt a fraction of China's wisdom in an amateurish way, and they got nuked twice at the end.
As for Annam, it is third rate.
It sounds harsh, no offence to our Japanese friend @
Nihonjin1051 , but you do have a point. A history of Japan's war in mainland:
Goguryeo–Yamato War - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Baekje–Tang War - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Japanese invasions of Korea (1592–98) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
After Meiji Restoration:
Ganghwa Island incident - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
First Sino-Japanese War - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Russo-Japanese War - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Siberian Intervention - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Japanese invasion of Manchuria - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Second Sino-Japanese War - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
List of wars involving Japan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Military history of Japan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Looks like Japan had a lucky streak between Meiji Restoration and WW II, I explain it in the following:
kalu_miah's new world order, a road map for the future | Page 8
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(Historical Continuity hypothesis)
Human societies or civilizations when they reach a certain size constantly adapt and reinvent themselves, due to internal reorganization and external influence. The longer a society is left intact without too much external interference, the more they can achieve a high degree of internal cohesion and as a result are able to adapt to changing circumstances more quickly and efficiently, as compared to a society that has been the victim of external aggression and forced transformation. In other words, relatively untouched societies retain some competitive edge over societies that were victims of invasion and brutal subjugation. There could be many reasons for this, but one of the most important one seems to be that societies take a certain amount of time to heal themselves of the damages from external forces to come to a steady state where the heirarchical pyramid structure of societies become well defined and whole society starts functioning as a organic whole with all parts playing their respective specialized roles. A good analogy is the body of higher animals whose body has organs for specialized functions. Although all cells start out as stem cells, eventually their functions and forms change to become part of a specialized organ, such as the central nervous system, the pancreas, the liver, the heart etc. Just as it takes time to evolve from single celled blue-green algae to complex reptiles, mammals, plants etc., societies also take time to evolve into a more efficient and complex unit, that has a competitive edge over other societies that did not have time or freedom from external influence to evolve....
According to the Historical Continuity hypothesis, since the established powers of the time were crushed under the Mongol hammer and only Western Europe and Japan was spared and remained standing, it is no surprise then that West Europeans soon were ascendant with Renaissance, Maritime supremacy and eventual colonization of the planet. Japan was isolationist through out this period. It was opened up by force by Admiral Perry around 1860's. It adapted Western technology in a few decades and became a world power. Soon it had the honour to beat Tzarist Russia, the first White nation ever to be beaten by non-whites and went on to colonize Korea, Manchuria and parts of Asia."
Because of this "
Historical Continuity" factor, Japan (and Korea to a smaller extent) is a tremendous asset for whichever team they are in. As an island nation with high historic continuity, they are a highly regimented and adaptive nation that can provide training to most Asian mainland countries how to manage their country more efficiently. So under a wise leadership (read Chinese) they can bring benefit that is beyond measure. So while there is hostility now, I am hoping that China keeps the long term possibilities in mind and cooperates with Japan in economic front in many Asian regions and work towards integration of these regions. Both Japan and South Korea are military allies of the US, but China can still partner with these two nations to work on economic integration of these regions:
- EaEU (Eurasian Economic Union, former Soviet countries, except for the ones that join EU/NATO)
- ASEAN+Bangladesh+Sri Lanka
- West Asian Union (Turkey+Iran+Pakistan+Afghanistan+Shia 3rd of Iraq+Kurdish part of Iraq)
All of regions and nations in them have the potential, in the very long term, to become a part of future more expanded SCO:
Japan's ruling bloc approves larger military role | Page 13