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Would the mutual defense treaty with the UK come into effect upon a Japanese invasion? Hong Kong appears to be a couple of hundred kilometers away.

In Japan, as in other chopstick-using countries, carving knives are used in the kitchen to cut up food to bite-size pieces before or after cooking, before being brought to the table.

A travios is useful on winding forest trails east of the Mississippi, but on the Great Plains the wheel is a natural invention, just as it was on the Asiatic steppes OTL.

Chariots may dominate the battlefield until a more robust breed is developed.

In 1954 the vast majority of nuclear weapons were pure fission bombs with an explosive yield less than 50kt. Thermonuclear (hydrogen) bombs were experimental prototypes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nuclear_weapons

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Will sangaku geometric problems/theorems have a place ITTL? With more early contact, will Japanese and Western maths influence each other?

While Japan is located in a volcanic zone, much of the land was originally on the eastern edge of the Rodinia supercontinent. It was separated by plate tectonics, with plates being subducted under the archipelago. This subduction zone also gave rise to the many volcanoes of Japan. The western...

The early Industrial Revolution did not need coal or other resources in anything remotely like modern day usage. A typical late nineteenth-century ship was built with as much steel as had been produced worldwide up until 1850.

There are some drivers of technology advancement ITTL that were absent or less significant IOTL. These include the continued widespread use of firearms, increased foreign and domestic trade, and competition with and adoption of European commercial and military technology. These will push forward...

It looks like you have a typo in your latest post to NHBL's Reach for the Skies; CF3 should be ClF3.

I don't see how they could avoid a rising sun motif. Nippon, 日本 "the sun's origin", had been the name of the country for literally a thousand years.

If the Russians can keep Albazin, they will control Dauria, about a million square kilometers in the region east of Lake Baikal.

Yes; I was just making the point that Vladivostok was not a factor in Russia's strategy toward conquering Siberia at the current time ITTL.

Russia did not have Vladivostok OTL during the conquest of Siberia. They were ejected by China from most of the Amur watershed, and they gave up that area to China by the Treaty of Nerchinsk in 1689. It was not until 1858 that the Russians gained the Amur region, and in 1860 they gained the...