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[–] Cricket@lemmy.zip 12 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Good points, thanks. Those definitely sound like contributing factors. I wonder if another one was the Black Death having a major impact in Europe in the 1,300s but leaving Japan apparently untouched.

[–] FALGSConaut@hexbear.net 19 points 3 days ago (1 children)

That's another good point, they've also been largely isolated from destabilizing events like foreign invasions. Plenty of internal conflict, sure, but no slate-clearing table-flipping upheaval that comes from outside invasion and occupation. As far as I'm aware (not an expert) aside from the American occupation following ww2 the last time Japan was even threatened by an outside force would have been the mongols and that was in the 1200s

[–] Cricket@lemmy.zip 6 points 3 days ago

True too, thanks.