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They deserve admiration for not becoming a colonial outpost of Western European colonialism, for quickly adapting and advancing technology used by Western Europeans and for humiliating and causing concern for the Americans and the British, who had a vastly greater amount of natural resources at their disposal and alliances which made it easier for them to acquire and develop technology, something the Japanese did not have.

Ah, another brave people. The ancient Japanese were very brave. For a tiny island they sure started shit with everyone.