Dinh AaronMk

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I don't imagine there'd by a seismic shift in psychology. We would be dealing with a Japan not glassed into oblivion and forced to concede as happened at the end of WW2. We'd be dealing with a Japan that was more bitterly defeated, but not forced to kneel and assume humility, nor has it faced levels of destruction absolute. And it'd have populist movements from either of the colonies, the Northern half of Korea would probably be looking at subversive ways to get the south to throw off Japanese tyranny and come back to them and the urban Indonesians at least may be attracted to anything that makes concepts of nationalism more attractive (I wouldn't know about any tribal groups like in Papau; though I remember Googer took an adventure out there in PoW and it was pretty much under developed).

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Precipice of War - We Write Under The Sign Of The Goat

Western intervention from Europe AND Japan in their major ports (Shanghai, Hong Kong, to a degree Macau) would have also left a modern leg up in the form of factories that were rebuilt. So the native infrastructure for mass production is present to be used and proliferated across the nation in the great balancing act that's been economic policy since 1960.

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<Snipped quote by Dinh AaronMk> My medium-term goal is to make the "View All Checks"/"View All Roleplays" topic lists awesome for searching, filtering, and sorting by any parameter you'd like. Once I figure that out, it's something I want to roll out to all topics in the forum.

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<Snipped quote by Dinh AaronMk> Can you explain? The next phase of the tag system is to introduce "View All Checks" and "View All Roleplays" views that let you filter the results.

@Mahz

Like an option on a page somewhere to sort either search queries (like I imagine with the tags or something) by the number of posts the thread has, its date, among other things. So if I wanted to see what thread has the most posts I might go to this list or search and sort the results in ascending or descending order.

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Fun fun fun. Is there any plans to see a list of all the threads listed by size or age or something?

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Oh god, everything on the home page is no longer centered! I about jumped, I thought you messed up the margins or something.

Precipice of War - We Write Under The Sign Of The Goat

You know, it's starting to seem a bit like China grew really powerful out of nowhere.

@duck55223

Sort of like what happened IRL. The sprawling Chinese Empire has needed since its earliest days a means to support it's immensity. They have five-thousand years of history worth of fielding armies that could swallow Europe, and as such a economic and structural demand to match that with super-projects to match: massive irrigation networks and canals, semi-industrialized metal working since well before Europe could do it (they invented the blast furnace after all). And its key features since day 1: an incredibly effective, intense, and ancient system of meritocratic governance. Because Confucius said "Fuck you, get diploma noob scrublord."

Precipice of War - We Write Under The Sign Of The Goat

Though I'll concede that the population of people reconciled to the government would be small, I still think that the natural resources afforded by Indonesia and whatever other possessions they might have would bolster Japan's economic growth, and considering Japan had a larger economy than China all the way until the 2000s (and that's even with Deng's reforms, which presumably would not happen in this universe) they would still have an industrial capacity to outproduce them in terms of war assets even if they can't match their army in terms of numbers. And that industrial capacity would be primarily geared towards military production, unlike in modern-day Japan.

@Mihndar

Having the raw materials doesn't mean they're a larger economy, since you still need to refine them into a usable industrial product. And then you need to transform the industrial product into an end product like a tank or a ship. Japan may have the capacity to do that. But it'll only be for their national armory and it'll probably all be in Japan since Indonesia would be too dangerous. And the stuff they produce may not even come back to them. With raw Indonesian produce they're really a sort of a bottom of the barrel western economy. Like the Balkans now, Central America, and much of Southern America (hell, even Indonesia itself. All that "rich land" and they're certainly 'murika 2.0) they wouldn't have the internal industrial capacity. The raw material they pull out is basically useless to them because they don't have the infrastructure. And if they build that they'd be entering into competition of manufacturing and higher-tier economies like the US, Europe, or even China itself. The US and Europe could probably bankrupt Japanese efforts too since they're so established. And with as minimal an industrial base at home as Japan has I doubt they'd be able to develop Indonesia. But that's even if they can put into the budget the subsidies while balancing police efforts in their colonies and handling political radicalism from both sides of the fence.