遠かったんやろ。でも金銀豊富やったのに魅力なかったんやろか？
It was far away. But gold and silver are abundant, were not they attractive?


普通に明治維新で近代化が成功したからやろ。清は革命運動やってたけど保守派に握りつぶされて結局列強に飲み込まれたやん。
It is because modernization is succeeded in the Meiji Restoration naturally. Qing was doing a revolutionary campaign, but it was grasped by conservatives and eventually swallowed by strong powers.


十分な兵力運べなかったからじゃない？地理的に遠いし。
Is not it because they could not carry enough troops? It is far geographically.


宣教師をいろんな理由で日本に滞在させて、どうやって日本の富を奪うのかは考えてたはず。
They made missionaries to stay in Japan for various reasons, and they must be thinking how to rob Japan of wealth.


>>キリスト教をしっかり弾圧したのが良かったんだろ。宣教師⇒植民地の流れに気づいた人は有能やで。
>> I think it was good to suppress Christianity tightly. People who noticed the flow from missionaries to the colonial are competent.


日本に強い軍事力があったのもあるんやない？南米は銃どころか、鉄製武器すらなかったし。
Is not that because strong military forces were in Japan? Far from shooting guns, in South America, they did not even have iron weapons.


植民地か近代化か？日本は後者を選んだ。正確には、薩摩などが江戸幕府の決まりを破って武器の貿易とかやってた。
Colony or a modernization? Japan chose the latter. To be exact, Satsuma and others broke the Edo shogunate’s decision and were doing weapons trade and so on.


各藩に力が分散してたのが良かったかもな。清や朝鮮は権力が中央に集まりすぎてた。
Perhaps it was good that the power was dispersed in each clan. Qing and Korea have too many power in the center.


その国のゴタゴタに介入してからの植民地化ってのがよくあるパターン。内戦が長引かなかった日本はセーフだったんやな。
It is a pattern that can be senn often that colonialization after intervening in the country’s trouble. Japan was safe because the civil war was not prolonged.


>>これも理由の一つだよね。江戸幕府陣営はこれ危惧してたって資料残ってるし。
>> This is one of the reasons, is not it? There is a document that Edo shogunate side had a concern about this.


薩英戦争で意外と強いって英国に思わせたのもあるな。あと、この戦で負けたから近代化すべしとの考えが日本中に起こった。
There was also a reason that made United Kingdom think that Japan is surprisingly strong in the Satsuma-UK war. Also, since lost in this war, the idea of modernizing occurred all over Japan.


>>朝鮮は弓矢とか使ってフランスに勝ってるんだよな。それで欧米化しなくてもええやんって流れになったとか。
>> Korea used bows and arrows, then won against France. I heard that there was a movement of no need for Westernization is occurred.


単一民族国家で幕府と朝廷権力の分離ができたてのが幸運。
It was lucky that there was a single ethnic country, and was able to separate the powers of the shogunate and the emperor.


慶喜が有能かどうかは別として、戊辰戦争の死者数が数万で済んだのが大きい。１００万人規模の死者なら普通に植民地コース。
Apart from whether Yoshinobu is competent or not, it was good that the number of deaths of Boshin War was just tens of thousands. If scale of death is million people, colonial course naturally.


明治天皇とその側近の大久保利通らが優秀やったんやで。中央集権だからこそ素早く動くことができたんや。
Emperor Meiji and his close associates Toshimichi Okubo and others were excellent. Because it was centralized, they could move quickly.


まったく、先人たちは有能なのに今のお前らときたら…
Well, though the predecessors are capable, you guys of this present time is…


環境が人を作るからな。平和ボケした今の日本からはそれ相応の人物した出てこないんだろ。
Because the environment makes a person. From the current Japan that had been peacefully fooled, only a suitable person appears according to it.