- 17 Sep 2005
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Recently I read in a book about warlords in the warring states period of Japanese history something about Oda Nobunaga. I found it (among many other things) very interesting.
The gist of it was that Oda Nobunaga planned to, upon unification of Japan, invade and conquer pretty much all of Asia. What was really interesting to me was that the description of the territory he was planning to conquer very much resembled the Far East Economic Prosperity Zone from WWII.
Of course this means that when Hideyoshi invaded Korea, he was merely following in Nobunaga's footsteps, but more importantly, it is very likely that had he been sucessful in conquering Korea, that would have only been the first stepping stone in a much longer campaign (assuming of course that he was thinking in the same lines as Nobunaga before his untimely death).
Any thoughts? I just found it of immense interest!
The gist of it was that Oda Nobunaga planned to, upon unification of Japan, invade and conquer pretty much all of Asia. What was really interesting to me was that the description of the territory he was planning to conquer very much resembled the Far East Economic Prosperity Zone from WWII.
Of course this means that when Hideyoshi invaded Korea, he was merely following in Nobunaga's footsteps, but more importantly, it is very likely that had he been sucessful in conquering Korea, that would have only been the first stepping stone in a much longer campaign (assuming of course that he was thinking in the same lines as Nobunaga before his untimely death).
Any thoughts? I just found it of immense interest!