"Western civilization" was just a euphemism for industrialized coercion.
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Japan was not "The West."
It was the first to imitate it.
After Commodore Perry’s gunboats forced open its ports in 1853, Japan realized what China already knew:
"Western civilization" was just a euphemism for industrialized coercion.
So it copied the machinery, not the morality.
It built ships, factories, and armies to avoid being colonized, then used them to colonize its neighbors.
The West is not a place.
It’s a behavior.
It’s the belief that domination equals progress, that conquest can be justified by "civilization," that humanity is a hierarchy with Europe at the top.
Japan proved this when it invaded Asia in Europe’s image, when it colonized Korea, occupied China, and marched across Southeast Asia, declaring itself "modern" through massacre.
Japan didn’t become Western.
It became the West’s mirror.
The Meiji Restoration was not an awakening. It was a survival reflex.
Europe’s power was technology backed by empire, so Japan built both.
That’s why it called its empire the "Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere," the same lie, just in a different language.
Japan Westernized its tools,
But never its conscience.
And that’s what made it tragic:
It learned how to conquer before learning how to atone.
posted by Satish Sharma at
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