+Kitsune Hawk > Starts new game as Korea > Discovers Japan as first neighbor > Nobunaga seeks friendly relations > (Accept) What could possibly go wrong? It's just civ game > *around 20 turns later* Japan shows up with army on my borders > "You should never have trusted" *declares WAR* > Well, crap...
Hilariously, Oda here tried unifying Japan after its hundred year war tore it up. He nearly succeeded, but one of his generals betrayed him, and he died at a temple name Honoji.
> Declares war on me without aggrevation > Loses all his troops > Loses a city > Calls me a warmonger > Offers iron, horses, pearls and gpt to me for peace > 10 turns later > Declares war on me for being a warmonger Odu ლ(ಠ益ಠლ)
I know, and especially in the renaissance their military history is not to be trifled with But it's just fun to have a country to joke about in a militaristic way I mean I'm from the Netherlands and our track-record of military history currently consists of "Get Conquered" about 30 times and "Ransack a country that's 500 years behind you scientifically" once
+赤邪鬼🔥 Why do you think they called it the Empire of the Rising Sun? Because of this dude's baldspot being so bright they had light even when it was night!
-Peaceful: has his hand on the hilt of his Tashi, ready to strike... -War; Stands there with his arms flopped down, vounerable to attack... Not a very smart bodylanguage, Oda...
The way he holds on to his sword in the peace screen isn’t a good way to draw it quickly for a strike. So him doing that implies he’s simply holding his sword for keeping it on his belt. Which kind of implies his non violent mood even more so. As he’s kinda just relaxing with his sword. If he were to draw, he would have to change his grip, and then draw. While from a normal stance like his war screen. His arm is already in a neutral spot so he can just quickly go for his sword and instantly perform a draw without having to change his grip.
Nah oda nobunaga is alright just as long if your not in his way. I played with an earth map and japan was in australia and i was in korea and china and we have a respectable friendship. He got sooo much ressources to trade.
Such a beautiful tune. Playing Japan on some TSL Earth map is such a nice feeling; all alone on your pretty little island, Kyoto sitting there in the shadow of Mt.Fuji, this tune playing in the background...so clam, so serine.
*starts up a new game* *First to meet me is Oda Nobunaga, about 18 tiles to the northeast* Well, so much for focusing on Production buildings for the first couple of turns...
That's totally indeed >.< I hate when people think that anime culture and Japanese culture are same. Anime is japanese animation (wholely, for every audience), and unlike in the west where we think it's solely an adults medium with deep, mature storytelling, violence, blood and hentai, Japanese usually consider that anime is either for kids (will you say Hamtaro or Pretty Cure is for adults?) or otakus (most of all the otaku medium is actually fan service and other sexy catchy stuff). Also japanese call ALL cartoons/animation anime. Japanese traditional culture is, in fact, MUCH MORE. Would you rather say that Russian culture is all about matryoshkas (in fact matryoshka was invented by Japanese), vodka or balalaikas, than the history and common life of Kievan Rus, military conquests against Pechenegs, the Ice Battle led by Alexander Nevskiy, the Tatar-Mongol yoke, Ukrainian cossack separatists, the battle near Poltava, the Russian Revolution of February and October, Soviet Union era - industrialisation, WWII victory, space and scientific programs, common life, the Perestroika era, life in 1990's after Soviet Union collapse, modern Russian life, and most importantly the present day Winter Olympics XXII in Sochi...?
Amen. I guess there's stereotypes and then there's actual culture. All could be said about every civilization, even extinct ones (Aztecs aren't just human sacrificers).
Whenever Nobunaga is in one of my games, I try to befriend him as much as I can as I really like it when I can come to this really cool dude as a friend. Alas, he always seems to hate me...
I was ecstatic to be friends with this guy XD. We traded luxuries and I joined him in taking down some puny weak peaceful civ. Then out of nowhere, he denounces me, says my army sucks, and wants all my luxuries, strategic resources, and gold all for some horses :(
The history of Japan encompasses the history of the islands of Japan and the Japanese people, spanning the ancient history of the region to the modern history of Japan as a nation state. Following the last ice age, around 12,000 BC, the rich ecosystem of the Japanese archipelago fostered human development. The earliest-known pottery found in Japan belongs to the Jōmon period. The first known written reference to Japan is in the brief information given in Twenty-Four Histories in the 1st century AD. The main cultural and religious influences came from China.
The first permanent capital was founded in 710 at Nara, which became a center of Buddhist art, religion and culture. The current imperial family emerged in about 700, but until 1868 (with few exceptions) had high prestige but little power. By 1550 or so, political power was subdivided into several hundred local units, or so called "domains" controlled by local "daimyō" (lords, Japanese: 大名), each with his own force of samurai (Japanese: 侍) warriors. Tokugawa Ieyasu came to power in 1600, gave land to his supporters, and set up his "bakufu" (feudal government) at Edo (modern Tokyo). The "Tokugawa period" was prosperous and peaceful, though Japan cut off almost all contact with the outside world.
In the 1860s, the Meiji period began, and the new national leadership systematically ended feudalism and transformed an isolated, underdeveloped island country, into a world power that closely followed Western models. Democracy was problematic, because Japan's powerful military was semi-independent and overruled-or assassinated-civilians in the 1920s and 1930s. The military moved into China starting in 1931 and declared all-out war on China in 1937. Japan controlled the coast and major cities and set up puppet regimes, but was unable to defeat China. Its attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941 led to war with the United States and its allies. After a series of naval victories by mid-1942, Japan's military forces were overextended and its industrial base was unable to provide the needed ships, armaments, and oil. Even with his navy sunk and his main cities destroyed by U.S. air attacks, the Emperor Shōwa (Hirohito) held out until August 1945 when two atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki and a Soviet invasion forced a surrender.
The U.S. occupied Japan until 1952. After 1955, it enjoyed very high economic growth rates, and became a world economic powerhouse, especially in engineering, automobiles and electronics. Since the 1990s economic stagnation has been a major issue, with an earthquake and tsunami in 2011 causing massive economic dislocations and loss of nuclear power supplies.
Main cultural and religious influences come from Korea, not China. Chinese influence starts after the fall of Beakje and Goguryeo and the rise of the Tang.
@織田信長 Nope, Goguryeo and Beakje culture was very different from China. Japan is currently subordinate to Chinese culture and it always has been ever since it got released from Korean influence. Korean culture is more advanced then Japanese in every way. You being proud of 'Chinese culture' is evidence of this 'chinese subordinate' sentimentality in Japan.
Its amazing that a meager and modest people on a archipelago isolated from the rest of the world for millennia could have such a profound impact on our history, and civilization today. From great warriors, to talented artists, to even a land of prosperity and peace. Truly, the Japanese people are a people worthy of respect.
A fragmented island full of kingdoms, only for one to unite them all and usher Japan into an age of prosperity. Truly an interesting and honor-worthy civilization.
Japans world war 3 ending: after Japan resisted Chinese military charges, their army strike hard against China and some of the Middle eastern army proxies. Even the USA and Brazil aid Japan to keep the Chinese off their territories, soon a new trading block is formed around Eurasia pacific and America. Japanese roar its victory like Godzilla 🦖 🇯🇵
If i remember correctly, samurai wielded three swords of different lengths, the Wakazashi, long sword, katana, and a short sword. Different combat situations call for different length swords.
Once I saw these two back-to-back pictures of the same area in Japan after the A-bombing / the earthquake and there was this one stone Torrii that was still standing and I remember thinking, " What is that made of? ".
His forehead was really tall tho, they messed up the description; he wasn't bald, but the distance above his eyebrows comprised of skin and no hair was long is the thing; he had a big brain literally
This is my second favorite theme from Civ V, the first being the Arabian peace time theme. Of all the computer leaders I've fought against, Oda Nobunaga seems to know when he's beaten the soonest. Others like Napoleon will keep demanding tribute even as I destroy their invasion forces.
There are still many castles in my country and i can assure it's a pain to live in them, it's not comfortable at all and it costs A LOT to maintain (repairing, heating during winters etc) and it's so big you spend hours each week trying to clean it.
>On different sides of the map >Befriends the same leaders >I choose Autocracy policy >Oda also chooses Autocracy >Commends me for doing so >Becomes guarded towards me the following turn
The large one on his back is for taking out horses. The medium one on his left side that he is holding is for fighting infantry, and the small one on the right is for committing suicide because he's a fearless bastard.
It's the western romanticized view of Japan vs Japanese culture. People look at Japan and expect it to be the same way it was 200 years ago, but like every other country their culture evolves and changes with time. It's like saying Europeans should still be living in castles and have knights riding around.
