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Are you forgetting the 1592 Japanese invasions of Korea which had the intent of conquering the Korean Peninsula and then the whole of China?
by Gupie 5y ago
Are you forgetting the 1592 Japanese invasions of Korea which had the intent of conquering the Korean Peninsula and then the whole of China?
- numpad0 5y agoI don’t think he is. Not even Korean right wings blame emperors for that invasion. By all intents and purposes it is Hideyoshi’s invasion.
- Gupie 5y agoMy comment was in response to his assertion that "the primary reasons which caused Japan to become imperialist are directly tied to Western imperialism".
- numpad0 5y agoThese are indeed matters of basic Japanese history as GP claims, although I’m not too sure whether “basic Japanese history” is actually common knowledges except for Japanese history majors or someone who has gone through Japanese compulsory education. Wikipedia article on Shogun[1] has a nice quick summary on pre-modern Shogunate system. It’s similar to British constitutional monarchy in a sense: the emperor was to delegate all power to the government and was to remain within instructions and supervisions of the government. 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shogun https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shogun