>>20905099cope harder SEAnigger
japan was always civilised and followed a progression mirroring europes progression through feudalism to monarchy to speedrunning industrialisation
and like europe, japan has a long history as a beauty loving civilisation, hundreds of years of refined tradition, culture, craftsmanship, architecture, art, literature, etc
hell basho was *literally* diefied after his death
there was never a colonisation of japan until briefly post ww2, and the refined culture remained throughout, thus allowing japan to become a economic superpower
meanwhile literally all of east asia besides japan has a long history of its peasant farmer bug people constantly being conquered by stronger people (mongols in china, later the brits in china, europe turning SEA into their economic slaves and colonies)
