yamato

POD is that Taika Reform succeeds in centralizing Japan. It takes power away from clan. Their land nationalized and redistributed. Imperial government becomes the sole authority in Japan. The Emperor creates a professional national standing army Tang dynasty in China and Silla dynasty in Korea...

What if the House of Li escaped to Japan and intermarried/merged with with the House of Yamato? How would this affect the history of East Asia and is it possible that this could lead to a Japanese conquest of Korea and China?

What if Yamato Japan became a centralized state under their emperor like China where would be their conquests ? A monopoly on East Pacific trade?

Goguryeo lose their domains north of yalu river to China They focus on south and unite Korea Before Yamato begins Japan is conquered by them and Koreanized with mass settlement How would this effect East Asian and world history ?

In April 1945 things were not going well for the Empire of Japan. The once formidable Imperial Japanese Navy had suffered an uninterrupted string of crushing defeats which had left the once mighty fleet a mere shadow of its former self with only a small handful of operational ships remaining as...

How can we have a desunited Japan during the Kofun and Asuka eras, ending up with several kingdoms fighting for regional dominance as it happened in Korea? Even if Japan does get unified later, what would that imply for Japanese culture and history, but also on their relation with Korea, China...

The 38 Years' War was, from what I understand, the final major conflict between the Emishi and Yamato people. It began with a strong showing by the Emishi, who struck numerous blows against the Yamato kingdom, and it seems as though it was only the betrayal of the Shiwa tribe that did in the...

One thing that I've always found interesting about Japanese history (a subject I'm really unknowledgable about admittedly), is that they've had a single ruling dynasty for pretty much their entire history, even if that dynasty was powerless of much of it. Yes, they were seen as divine, but so...