How to write about Japan

[DHBirr]

Tennie wrote:

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robkelk wrote:

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So, Japan is like Canada?

(I understand they apologize a lot in Japan, too...)

Now I can't help but imagine some kind of alternate history scenario in which the Japanese islands became a bunch of Canadian provinces...

In a twist on that, Charles de Lint's Svaha is set in a future in which China took over the ruins of the U.S. after a big collapse -- and Japan (mainly the Yakuza) took over Canada.  Oh, and the Native Americans/First Nations have the highest technology on or off Earth, and propaganda claims that they caused the collapse so they could lord it over us less-advanced peoples....
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