I mean, forget about manufacturing, japan has something like a 38% caloric self sufficiency rate and something absolutely miserable like 16% for energy so if this was realistic their government would be busy figuring out how to stave off a total societal collapse
Premise requires a lot of handwaving, don't think too hard about it
Seems some people forget that the author already handwaved that in the first few chapters when they established diplomatic and commercial relationships with Quatoyne for their food needs (Chapter 3 page 10) and Quila for their oil needs (ch. 3 pg 14). That doesn't change much from the relationship most "1st world" countries have with developing or 3rd world countries have here where they're exploited mostly for their raw resources.
Maybe take your tongue out of Japan's butthole for one second and re-read what I wrote; I was asking if Japan manufacturers and produces everything it uses - and in our globalized economy the answer is likely no - and what disruptions that would cause japan.
I probably should have focused more on ALL the goods and services they use, even those in their normal daily lives such as cars; because yes japan is a large car manufacturing country, but does that mean they make all parts within their country?
I thought the logistics of that would be interesting and could be a fun thing for the story to explore.
But screw me for for wondering that and starting some banter in a comment section, I guess?
In fact, I didn't even suggest that japan didn't produce their own weapons, I said they likely don't produce every part of them.
But hey, take whatever chance you can get to hate on 'murrica and china, as if I'm from either of those countries,
Because as we all know
Place =
Place (japan) =
I'm sure your honorary japanese citizenship is in the mail.
Actually, I believe Taiwan makes most of the world's chips, not china, which is what I was thinking about when I wrote that chip comment.
But 'murica, china, and japan are the only countries that manufacture anything, right?
The manufacturing and raw material needs. It's been discussed ad-nauseam in previous chapters. How much of their military equipment is manufactured by their conglomerates locally their own designs or under License, NOT gifted by glorious Murrica.
Then there's the theme of their chip fabs have also been discussed before too. The Japan of Nihonkoku Shoukan was transported in 2015, have you researched their state during that timeframe when they they were transported compared to Taiwan? People also argued about ASML's EUV lythography tech but in 2015 they were still not being hugely relevant to chip fab. At that time Japan still held 30% of the global chip manufacturing and around 10% of modern chip fabs for that timeframe. Those 10% are still 100% more than most countries in the world which have zero fabs. If you gonna argue also about silicon mining, refinement and wafer manufacture, they do have mines, silicon refineries and a two of the biggest wafer manufacturers. Have you researched which Japanese companies or conglomerates had chip fabs and how many in that year? What size node they had each? Have you researched what percentage of military equipment the JSDF uses which is manufactured locally?
Yes there are aspects handwaved and encountered disruption, but still people come and state japan is doomed and can't do anything without rest of our world, which is even more ignorant.
Even if we replace Japan for America, China, Russia, Taiwan whatever each one would have the same or different problems. America has lagged behind in leading edge chip fab. China depends on oil and gas imports for 70% of their energy needs. Russia has no problems with raw resources and energy but lagging even further in the chip and tech manufacturing. Taiwan is even worse than Japan in every aspect when it comes to resources.
And at the end of the day any of those countries even making 1970's chips would still be leaps and bounds technologically from any civilization of that world. Nihonkoku Shoukan is a piece of patriotic fanfiction and the other fanfictions replacing Japan with other countries are no better. I've seen and read even more ridiculous things coming from China.
