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Re:Japan's Growing Poverty Defies Glib Explanations by jazzyk on Wednesday April 27, 2016 @09:58AM (#11580458)
What about the post-Meiji period?

The attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 was just a misunderstood act of extending an olive branch?

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Re:Japan's Growing Poverty Defies Glib Explanations by nihonde on Wednesday April 27, 2016 @10:24AM (#11580670)
(Again my views only.) I think it was a direct reaction to the aggression of 1853. It was preceded by posturing/maneuvering in the South Pacific if I'm not mistaken. To be clear, I don't think it was justified or proportionate, but I do think those events were closely linked in that Japan saw Americans as encroaching on their sovereignty and an imminent threat from the "East".
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Re:Japan's Growing Poverty Defies Glib Explanations by SEJeff on Wednesday April 27, 2016 @10:43AM (#11580823)
Much like the Norsemen were misunderstood by the Celts/Gaels in Ireland (whom they slaughtered)
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