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  1. Simeon

    What PoD's can the United States undergo to have a more virulent imperialistic fervour towards Asia (specifically the Philippines)?

    All the American Philippines posts have left me concluding that the idea needed a better foundation of PoD's to be able to stand. So — what are the paths that America can go through to so that McKinley (or whoever the advocates and movers can be by then) can sell his idea better to the American...
  2. Simeon

    Nobunaga’s Ambition Realized: Dawn of a New Rising Sun

    Also, don't the Japanese use music — drums at least — to help march their armies in cadence?
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    Nobunaga’s Ambition Realized: Dawn of a New Rising Sun

    come to think of it — hasn't Sakai and other cities found themselves in a great fire or two already?
  4. Simeon

    Nobunaga’s Ambition Realized: Dawn of a New Rising Sun

    I wonder how much additional land has already been reclaimed in Musashi province with the help of the windmill water pumps.
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    Nobunaga’s Ambition Realized: Dawn of a New Rising Sun

    On the contrary, the Europeans can find Japanese clockmaking interesting even if they won't adopt the system themselves; they can always credit the craftsmanship where it's due, after all.
  6. Simeon

    Nobunaga’s Ambition Realized: Dawn of a New Rising Sun

    Now, I am kinda wondering how those European readers will fanboy over the likes of Kusunoki Masashige and Kitabatake Akiie; hell, the more open-minded and humanist of the readers can realise the sympathy for Ashikaga Takauji several centuries ahead of Eiji Yoshikawa's work IOTL.
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    Nobunaga’s Ambition Realized: Dawn of a New Rising Sun

    Political conflict and treachery are some of the important themes of the book; setting the story in the Manji war fits the bill more perfectly than the rather peaceful death of Nobunaga.
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    Nobunaga’s Ambition Realized: Dawn of a New Rising Sun

    This is big if true; thanks to being a fixture of Japanese ambassadors, this is bound to become an actual standard and protocol on par with formal dinners and dances. Not only that they will scour the world to better procure for tea leaves (and tea sets, too!), they will also try to emulate the...
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    Nobunaga’s Ambition Realized: Dawn of a New Rising Sun

    Speaking of the tea ceremony - have the Japanese diplomats and other notables performed it before European audiences, or have they kept it to themselves?
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    Nobunaga’s Ambition Realized: Dawn of a New Rising Sun

    in terms of confessional issues, probably; they certainly are not as perfidious as the actual Albion, however at least not yet
  11. Simeon

    Nobunaga’s Ambition Realized: Dawn of a New Rising Sun

    Remember that the Republic of Ireland is still a prideful nation today (and one that had been strongly Catholic up until recently) in spite of mostly speaking the English language. And oh — the baranggay clientage system of the local plutocrats is totally upended in favour of Japanese...
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    Nobunaga’s Ambition Realized: Dawn of a New Rising Sun

    laughs in Pangasinense, mass-produced sugar, and other cheap commodities
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    Nobunaga’s Ambition Realized: Dawn of a New Rising Sun

    far from it; all of those are formal provinces, after all Luzon province is positively Northern Irish in character, however.
  14. Simeon

    Japanese China and the "imperial" titles

    It had been more of a legalese than a slogan when Kitabatake Chikafusa penned it, really.
  15. Simeon

    Nobunaga’s Ambition Realized: Dawn of a New Rising Sun

    this, especially now that the Indian Trade Board has long been established
  16. Simeon

    Nobunaga’s Ambition Realized: Dawn of a New Rising Sun

    Now, I am interested with the correspondences between the Japanese ambassadors and the nobility of Europe.
  17. Simeon

    Nobunaga’s Ambition Realized: Dawn of a New Rising Sun

    On the other hand, the Europeans may be more open to syncretism which can enable a greater introgression of Eastern literature and ideas into Europe, not just limited to Japanese texts but even to the Chinese ones. Imagine the Romance of the Three Kingdoms translated into French or Dutch and...
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    Nobunaga’s Ambition Realized: Dawn of a New Rising Sun

    I thought the Luzon province has its border between Pangasinan and Tarlac.
  19. Simeon

    Nobunaga’s Ambition Realized: Dawn of a New Rising Sun

    There must at least be some casual musicians among the European traders and sailors that could have transmitted their skills among the Japanese, no matter how rudimentary those can be.
  20. Simeon

    Nobunaga’s Ambition Realized: Dawn of a New Rising Sun

    Have any Japanese musicians gone to Europe and vice versa?
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