As a young man, Derisen was naturally proud and ambitious. At the same time, East Africans genuinely had the confidence born of a psychological edge over Japan.
So when someone claimed that Japan would launch a war against East Africa, not only East Africans themselves, but probably the vast majority of the world would find it hard to understand.
Commander Yodeler shared this view and did not believe Japan would make such a mad move.
"Japan is a nation with a great appetite for gambling. Its rise into the ranks of the great powers owed much to two wars from the late nineteenth century to the early twentieth century, and Japan won both of them."
"However, the two opponents it chose were also rather special. At the time, the Far East Empire had long been terminally ill. One could even say that when it was defeated by the British in the 1840s, the veil concealing the Far East Empire's weakness had already been completely ripped away."
"From then until today, almost any major power with decent strength could take a bite out of the Far East Empire."
"Therefore, after Japan took the lead in reforming and reshaping its national politics in the latter half of the nineteenth century, it had become a semi-industrialized country by the end of that century. Meanwhile, the Far East Empire had still not shed its identity as an agricultural nation."
"In the 1890s, the Far East Empire had achieved a degree of industrialization and introduced some advanced technologies, but what it accomplished was, at most, comparable to Japan before 1880."
Japan's Meiji Restoration began in 1868. In other words, twelve years had already passed between 1868 and 1880.
Ten years was enough to bring enormous changes to the face of a country, especially an emerging