Charles Cave gave me two maps and description.
His grandfather who took a cruise from Melbourne to Asia including China Hong-Kong and Japan left that.
The map was published in Japan and drawn by hand in ink.
and Japan had committed acts of brutality.
Still there are remaining problems such as
Dokdo and Comfort women.
Now I don't want to hate them,
but I hope to be able to solve these problems.
I totally agree with Dr. Harari's opinion in his lecture, A Brief History of Humankind,
"The empires, this is what they claimed, the empires bring new medicine.
They bring new transportation that works, like the railroads.
They bring new ideas, they bring education, they bring science
to the primitive people in Africa and India and Australia.
to the primitive people in Africa and India and Australia.
This is why the empires are good. And they should be supported.
Now, of course, the reality was very often very far away from these fantasies.
On many occasions, what the European empires brought was war and famine and exploitation and racism
much more than medicines or roads or schools."
(in the Lesson 12-4 The Marriage of Science and Empire)