You get sent back in time to 1850 Japan. What kind of defenses and weapons do you prepare to defeat Commodore Perry's Black Ships in 4 years time?
You get sent back in time to 1850 Japan.
You get sent back in time to 1850 Japan. What kind of defenses and weapons do you prepare to defeat Commodore Perry's Black Ships in 4 years time?
I wouldn't. Japan did not suffer from anything until they got their shit kicked in during WW2. Literally just play it cool when you want to expand again, and choose the winning side so you can conquer China without getting your oil cut off. Also be more discrete or at least western in the way you subjugate them so the world doesn't fear for the heckin chinerinos.
Sorry, too busy forcing all the women to open their country
Why would I want to? If anything I hop on board with ol' Commy P and start designing Browning style firearms a couple decades early
The problem was never Japan's opening, but the lack of proper democracy.
No not the dreaded commodore perry he might make us trade with America stimulate our economy and break us out of 200 years of stagnation
Fire bombs
Japan had firearms and cannon for 300 years at this point
Except they closed up the country and largely ignored the tech developments of the rest of the world until large gun ships were off their shores, forcing them to open up.
Always run your bilge blowers, kids.
Did he okay?
>What kind of defenses and weapons do you prepare to defeat Commodore Perry's Black Ships in 4 years time?
lets teach these yankees what torpedo terror is
Describe entirely based on your knowledge and creativity how to build a self propelled, high explosive armed and reliably fused torpedo that runs straight and level based entirely on Tokugawa era Japanese artisnal production techniques
>runs straight
its crewed
>reliably fused
manual detonation
not him,
>neutrally buoyant submersible
>space for one man inside + 5000 pounds of gunpowder
>snorkel wearing men swimming alongside, pushing it just under the water, guiding all said to enemy ship
>swimmers bang on hull of sub-bomb when on taret
>man inside lights fuse
>crew joins ancestors, americans return to satan
That was kinda the plan actually.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukuryu
>has also been called "suicide divers" or "kamikaze frogmen"[1] in English texts.
ah the Japanese VDV
you might want to be sitting down for this one, but Japanese soldiers and even the fabled samurai were not a death cult at the time, or indeed any time until the very tail end of WWII and this would have been a horrifying suggestion rejected out of hand.
i didn't specify that they would be volunteers
>these people who were culturally bound to commit suicide on dishonor or breaking of any command to their superiors for over a thousand years would be incapable of procuring a few dozen men to ritualistically sacrifice themselves in glory for their heavenly ordained god emperor
absolute bullshit
Why? Yoshinobu was absolutely correct to modernize and open up and Emperor Meiji was also right to accelerate that process
NOOOOOOOOOOO NOT MY WARRIOR WAY! YOU CANT JUST HECKIN CURTAIL THE POWER OF THE DAIMYOS OVER THE PEASANTRY
Do nothing except warn them that Teddy Roosevelt will negotiate Russia extremely extremely generous terms in the aftermath of the Russo-Japanese war and that machine guns will inflict pyrrhic losses on their troops during that conflict. Once Korea is secured they must hold off on expanding into China and the south east pacific until they are in a more diplomatically secure situation to avoid the unwinnable resource deficit that the Sino-Japanese war created and directly led to the entry and subsequent loss in WW2
KEEP HAVING THE COUNTRY BE CLOSED
Nothing, Perry basically saved Japan. If it weren't for him they'd basically be as stagnant as China, possibly more so.
Why would I? Commodore Perry was a blessing to Japan because contrary to China they managed to keep a hold of their country instead of being exploited by bigger powers while getting all that juicy access to western advancements on their own terms. Post Russo-Japanese war is another story. They would've needed to get a hold of the army to not drag them into an unwinnable war like in our timeline but that would be difficulty because the army was high on its own fumes after defeating what was supposedly a great western power (Russia, lmao).
>What kind of defenses and weapons do you prepare to defeat Commodore Perry's Black Ships in 4 years time?
send a messenger with a note informing them that the islands are under protection of a time traveler, and demonstrate ability to sink the attackers by detonating a mine with modern-ish military explosive payload measured in metric tons
>arrive in 1850s Japan
>demand a metric ton or semtex
>refuse to elaborate further
>arrive in 1850s Japan
>demand a metric ton or semtex
I am going to assume actual chemical synthesis discussion on this topic is not allowed, and just tell I know differences between different types of black powder, how to make smokeless powder, enough about WWII high explosives to get myself into trouble, and about the high sensitivity substances
Well in that case shine on you mad bastard
nothing because the history of Asian conflicts 1850-1920 is superb kino (if very tragic/fatal) and all the bad things later down the line are beyond my control
I do not resist Perry's westernization. That would result in nothing but suffering for Japan.
What I do instead is prepare for the Boxer Rebellion and strategically place the Japanese army in such a way as to make the 8-Nation Alliance to relieve Peking superfluous; all credit to save the legations and extirpate the Boxer militia would fall upon Japan's shoulders, and I (meaning Japan) would then argue that my knowledge of the inscrutable orient would make me (meaning Japan) a better guardian of East Asia's colonial future, pre-empting the East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere without any diplomatic trouble. China would fall suzerain to Japan, with relatively open markets (under Japanese mediation) to the European great powers. Japan's government of China would be ensure oriental products flowing into Western hands, thus making Japan an essential partner in the imperial ambitions of the West, and not a rival, or worse, a subject.
That's fine and all but Japan created the Empire specifically because it was butthurt over being snubbed in global treaty and trade negotiations at the turn of the century by Europeans so it said fuck all yall imma go ham in this here asian oceania
by the time it owned china, it was already in a big fuck you mood and that wouldn't have changed if it owned it a little sooner
If Japan had done exactly what
said they probably would have been taken much more seriously by European powers. I don't see them becoming suzerain of China especially due to the work Britain did in the opium wars prying the country open for trade but I do see them being treated as an equal partner. Not recognized as a great power, at least not until after the Russo-Japanese war, but with Manchuria in hand and recognized as a peer they might be given control of German Asian colonial possessions post WWI and would be in a much better position to negotiate with Chinese nationalists on establishing an allied, likely dependant (for a few decades at least) government out of the warring states period.
>would have been taken much more seriously by European powers
they sure as shit fixed the issue right up when it bothered them, i tell you hwat.
>the work Britain did in the opium
It is my distinct impression that the eight nation alliance was pushed to keep Japan from owning Chinese trade lock stock and barrel, and the EACPS was designed so the other colonial powers could keep their mitts on SEAsia property directly. Frankly, Japan might have started WWII if the Euros hadn't, because it was vibrantly aware of the white people in their backyard
Sneak booze, speed, and Vicodin into Perry's cabin and let his lack of self control do the rest
A swarm of Kamikaze boats. Let's see Perry try to sink them all lmao.
None, because japan was woefully behind. But the black ship incident did wake them the fuck up and they modernized and industrialized relatively quickly enough to be where they were before WWII kicked off.
Comfort girls
I feel like everyone is ignoring the obvious.
#1 - Japanese are extremely racist to none Japanese, even today. They wouldn't have liked or accepted anyone reading this.
#2 - Old era whites were extremely racist and distrusting, especially on a war ship. You'd have to dress like them and talk like them to get near without being arrested or shot.
>Old era whites were extremely racist and distrusting, especially on a war ship.
>You'd have to dress like them and talk like them to get near without being arrested or shot.
demonstrate technological superiority as well as deep understanding of their culture and society
>demonstrate technological superiority
I can imagine you showing off your zoomer cell phone and getting hung up for witch craft.
>as deep understanding of their culture and society
Texas didn't even exist back then and bros were still slaves. What can you teach them culturally?
>What can you teach them culturally?
I can invent jazz music
>I can imagine you showing off your zoomer cell phone
high explosives
>What can you teach them culturally?
tell them we know who they are, including details not known by anyone else at the time, what their orders and intents are and that the angel of destruction is standing by to send the entire fleet to kingdom come at flick of a finger
>to send the entire fleet to kingdom come at flick of a finger
or just butcher them all if you think saving their lives is too cringe
how would you try to maintain power as the shogunate while trying to modernize at the same time?
You can't the Tokugawa was rotten to the core by that time, they weren't kidding when they called it the 'Meiji Restoration'
any competent shogunate could have fielded a coastal defense and told Perry to pound sand but the 'gawas were so effete and frail and set in their ways they couldn't imagine not fighting in the "samurai way" but that is not the natural state of the Japanese, they are highly effective warfighters in every regard usually
There's no saving Japan.
if theres gonna be nukes in this timeline its not gonna be the americans dropping them