• TranscendentalEmpire@lemmy.today
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    17 hours ago

    At least the Brits were good at sailing at one point in their history… I don’t know how an island nation has been completely dunked on in nearly every naval engagement in their history.

    But yeah… Japanese food is more like English food than Korean or Chinese food imo. The traditional food is mainly flavored by broth, they fry everything they can, mayonnaise on everything, and the only thing that isn’t bland is the watered down curry.

    • LaGG_3 [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      16 hours ago

      I don’t know how an island nation has been completely dunked on in nearly every naval engagement in their history.

      IIRC, in Japanese martial history, they really only used ships as floating battlefields for infantry when various lords fought each other. Since their only strategy was board, the Korean turtle ships were designed as a hard counter to that

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        15 hours ago

        Japanese martial history, they really only used ships as floating battlefields for infantry

        Aka a strategy that went out of style a couple thousand years ago.

        They also did very poorly in ww2. Wildly betting on “if battleship good, giant battleship is best”.