Opinion of Japan

[TDAS04]

FC.

[🦀🎂🦀🎂]

Where my waifu is, kawaii desu xx

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

Freedom Country with a ton of problems.

[Oswald Acted Alone, You Kook]

Freedom despite spawning Boku No Pico.

[Murica!]

Has good food, that's enough to be a FC for me.

[Grumpier Than Thou]

Massive FC.

[Goldwater]

The place where video games come from, so FC.

[Beet]

A weird country. A very weird country. Most of you kids are too young to remember when the U.S. was paranoid about Japan. "We won the war, but they won the peace", and other nonsense like that. The country's golden age was 1868-1998, about 130 years, probably peaking in the late 1940s when companies like Sony were getting founded. Today a society that has accepted its own eclipse, like what Thatcher warned against in the Seventies and Eighties. In any case, definitely weird.

[Mr. Smith]

Freedom Country with a ton of problems.

[Tetro Kornbluth]

A weird country. A very weird country. Most of you kids are too young to remember when the U.S. was paranoid about Japan. "We won the war, but they won the peace", and other nonsense like that. The country's golden age was 1868-1998, about 130 years, probably peaking in the late 1940s when companies like Sony were getting founded. Today a society that has accepted its own eclipse, like what Thatcher warned against in the Seventies and Eighties. In any case, definitely weird.

Weird alright, but not as weird as that post.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

probably peaking in the late 1940s

What the Christ

[Beet]

A weird country. A very weird country. Most of you kids are too young to remember when the U.S. was paranoid about Japan. "We won the war, but they won the peace", and other nonsense like that. The country's golden age was 1868-1998, about 130 years, probably peaking in the late 1940s when companies like Sony were getting founded. Today a society that has accepted its own eclipse, like what Thatcher warned against in the Seventies and Eighties. In any case, definitely weird.

Weird alright, but not as weird as that post.

The most normal and straightforward interpretation of Japanese history, actually.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

'The most normal and straightforward interpretation of Japanese history' most certainly does not analyze the Meiji Restoration-to-Pacific War period and the Occupation-to-Lost Decade period as one continuous era, far less parts of the same 'golden age'.

[H. Ross Peron]

Freedom Country with a ton of problems.

[H. Ross Peron]

Where my waifu is, kawaii desu xx

http://p1.i.ntere.st/b9be110002fdf23f10b7dafd56b7f525_480.jpg

Does she count as Japanese?

[Cory]

Massive FC.

[Intell]

Freedom Country with a ton of problems.

[TDAS04]

I will close this poll after it's been open for 48 hours.  Then I'll create 2-day polls for 3 other Asian powers (China, India, Pakistan) and compare the results.

[🦀🎂🦀🎂]

Korea? Indonesia?

[TDAS04]

Korea? Indonesia?

OK, I'll add South Korea and Indonesia, but no more.  6 should be plenty.

[🦀🎂🦀🎂]

Where my waifu is, kawaii desu xx

http://p1.i.ntere.st/b9be110002fdf23f10b7dafd56b7f525_480.jpg

Does she count as Japanese?

So kawaii xxxxxxxxx

[Frozen Sky Ever Why]

Herbivore Japan=HC

[Beet]

'The most normal and straightforward interpretation of Japanese history' most certainly does not analyze the Meiji Restoration-to-Pacific War period and the Occupation-to-Lost Decade period as one continuous era, far less parts of the same 'golden age'.

I don't blame historians for dividing up such a long and interesting period into parts; especially since when these two periods were delineated, the golden age was still going on and seemed 'normal.'

[Antonio the Sixth]

An extremely fascinating country. Did some really atrocious things in the past, but seems to have genuinely made amends.

[Sol]

A pretty interesting country, although my interest in it is more Maddy-style than it is Otaku-esque (thankfully!).