Of course, there are plenty of things in the history that make no sense (among other things, how Japan gets into a parliamentary system with a Prime Minister without America kicking its ass and making it do that in WW2)
1. The Meiji restoration happened before WWII. This was a period where the Japanese actively, liberally, and voluntarily (albeit, motivated by political threat), sought to learn and incorporate elements from other cultures. It was also a period of great social upheaval. Is it so insensible that they might have tried to incorporate some form of constitutional monarchy under such circumstances? The Chinese republic in actual history (under Sun Yat Sen) was not forced upon them by the Americans, after all.
2. Among other things, Japanese history has always been very clannish. Personally, if you think about how clan systems work, I don't think it's such a big stretch for the Japanese to have switched to a Parliamentary system with a Prime Minister. It would just be institutionalizing something extant and organic.
I was always under the impression that Britannia is basically Briton that never got out of their 'absolute monarchy' and 'imperialism' phases, if you want to give them a tl;dr version to start off. One of the reasons why the EEU formed was probably that the individual countries in it realized that their choices were to consolidate or risk eventually becoming Area 42, I'm guessing. And because Sunrise thought things would be simpler if there were just three world powers to worry about in the story.
3. I'm not so sure about Area 42; I dunno about the founding of Britannia because I haven't been keeping up but given what I know of actual European history might it not be a Napoleonic legacy?
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1. The Meiji restoration happened before WWII. This was a period where the Japanese actively, liberally, and voluntarily (albeit, motivated by political threat), sought to learn and incorporate elements from other cultures. It was also a period of great social upheaval. Is it so insensible that they might have tried to incorporate some form of constitutional monarchy under such circumstances? The Chinese republic in actual history (under Sun Yat Sen) was not forced upon them by the Americans, after all.
2. Among other things, Japanese history has always been very clannish. Personally, if you think about how clan systems work, I don't think it's such a big stretch for the Japanese to have switched to a Parliamentary system with a Prime Minister. It would just be institutionalizing something extant and organic.
I was always under the impression that Britannia is basically Briton that never got out of their 'absolute monarchy' and 'imperialism' phases, if you want to give them a tl;dr version to start off. One of the reasons why the EEU formed was probably that the individual countries in it realized that their choices were to consolidate or risk eventually becoming Area 42, I'm guessing. And because Sunrise thought things would be simpler if there were just three world powers to worry about in the story.
3. I'm not so sure about Area 42; I dunno about the founding of Britannia because I haven't been keeping up but given what I know of actual European history might it not be a Napoleonic legacy?