On 12/27/2014 5:42 PM, Kim Jones wrote:
Had we not dropped the bomb on Japan we would certainly be in a different universe now. Probably one in which I as a citizen of an extended Japanese empire in the Pacific would enjoy bullet train (shinkansen) style air-conditioned serene comfort on my daily commute over the vast distances people routinely travel here, just to get to and from work. Instead we enjoy some of the lousiest public transport on the planet as we struggle to knit our major urban centres together even now in the 21st century. Had Japan conquered Australia we would be at the hub by now of a vast technology-empire and instead of our rising obesity crisis, we might have adopted a more healthy Japanese-style diet. Yeah - I would chow-down on a whale burger. Don't like the greasy taste of kangaroo...
You'd also be living in a militaristic society as a racially inferior minority and possibly working as slave labor laying tracks for the shinkansen.
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