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Still, moving and supplying any major amount of those forces to a place as distant from Europe as Japan would be a straining effort for them until large transport steamships became common. Most of the wars they did have were usually closer, or at least close to their more built up staging areas...

The problem is that by the time big colonial powers like Spain or Britain, nevermind the smaller one, could arrange the sealift to get any meaningful force to Japan, the Japanese state of warfare was already beyond the point where a small force of Europeans at the end of a very long logistical...