Talk:Empire of Japan/@comment-5986829-20120621115852/@comment-3112181-20120625165239

But the problem is Japan, in the 18th century, wouldn't be remotely interested in any of those places. Heck, Japan in the 18th century didn't know about any of those places. Even if you did "negotiate" for them, it is so historically incorrect. Until the latter part of the 19th century, the people of Japan were feudal, confined, island dwellers; Shoguns running around with legions of samurai without these fancy missiles and numerous outposts across the world. It was nations like the US and Britain that opened Japan up to the "modern" world in the 1880s-1890s.