Comparing the Yamato expansion across Honshu to the European expansion across the Western and Southern Hemispheres is a difference of degree so great as to brea

Comparing the Yamato expansion across Honshu to the European expansion across the Western and Southern Hemispheres is a difference of degree so great as to breach into a difference of quality. I'm sure the Ainu weren't particularly happy about their circumstances, but I figure that China, Korea, the Philippines, and much of Polynesia would beg to differ with the notion that Western influence did not substantially change the expanionist sentiments of "Nippon damashii".