Message from @What Would Jack Conte Do?
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the heiian period was the climax of japanese and chinese relations
would you say?
They pretty much copied the Chinese language and made some modifications
thats just because they had the same ancestors
not because they were a chinese vassal
chinese language is very old
Japan was a Chinese tributary?
So much bykksht
japan and china traded
thatd be like saying greece was a phoenician vassal for using its alphabet
I think it's more like a little kid copying an adult
Being stared here
they didn't war as often as france and germany, because they were separated by sea
If all you got is ignorance
kind of like england and france
The. It’s k good
sweden and russia
also japan has a lot more storms than china
england and france is a more or less unique relationship
so china didn't bother colonizing japan
japan could assert independence
Japan helped pirates attack China for a few hundred years (The Wokou) iirc
like they could lol
yeah, because it's an island and shit
the chinese sucked due
there wasn't a rivalry, because japan couldn't match the power of china
they lost in vietnam
not until industrialization tipped the scales
they lost in manchuria
But, they still were heavily influenced by china, right
like
anyway, that's the reason
again
it has to do with geography
literally
one of their writing systems is ltierally chinese characters
anyone who trades
with another nation
meanwhile, france and germany were similar in power, so they became rivals
is influenced by them