Mekatilili
Even your fellow Kenyans ought to be embarassed by your childish yapping.You are just insulting people instead of presenting your facts or opinion.
So much for calling yourself a programmer!If you still M-pesa is a kenyan innovation then you are exactly what you are branding others-deluded!
Learn the art of dialogue and debate instead of just yapping and vomiting out nonsense like Kenya is the ICT headquarter of Africa,what of South Africa... ICT heaven of Africa?
Mr. Programmer go and check out about M-pesa app...I think Michael Joseph is still laughing for fooling people like...do you even known where the M-pesa platform is based,Mr.Programmer?
My God!Do you really know the history of Japan?Do you actually follow the story of Chechnya and Russia?How many russians have been blown up within russian soil...until you understand that you will never know the true cost of a war.US fought in Afghanistan and Iraq and we are all seeing the decline in her economy...
After the power of the emperor was restored after 1869, Japan began opening up more to the world and modernizing along western lines. After watching China being bullied by the western powers, Japan launched a military moderinization. They modeled their navy along British lines and their army along Prussian/German lines. The Navy and the Army both held more sway than civilians in the government and often premiers (basically like a prime minister) would be an officer in the military.
The Emperor technically was an autocrat, but the emperor, considered God-like didn't actually rule in a way like the Russian Tsars or European monarchs of the past, but in fact held councils and gave advice to his ministers.
In 1905, fighting over who would be the dominant power in Manchuria and Korea, Russia and Japan went to war and Japan's modernizing proved successful as they easily defeated and humiliated the Russians, destroying virtually the entire Russian Navy at the Battles of Port Arthur and Tsushima.
At this time, Japan was an ally of Britain and when World War I started in 1914, Japan was a member of the allies and defeated some German ships in the Pacific and took over some German colonies along the Chinese coast. At the end of the war, Japan got screwed, basically, and they felt the West had no respect for them.
In the 1921 Washington Naval Conference, Japan was a participant, but wasn't granted battleship and carrier tonnage that would be on par with Britain and the US, this further convinced the Japanese that the West had no respect for them.
By the 1930's, Japan had become an empire, a modern nation and hungry for more land, more control in East Asia and access to natural resources. So in 1937, they invaded China, which irritated the west (although not Germany and Italy), particularly the United States, who felt that most of China was in the American sphere of influence. During that period, in order to regain influence in Manchuria, they fought a brief and disastrous war against the Soviets.
All of this, especially the need for natural resources like Rubber and Oil put them on a collision course with the West, particularly Britain, the US, France (who controlled rubber in Southeast Asia), and the Netherlands (who controlled oil in Indonesia).
Therefore Japan was not the impoverished nation you claim it was. It was the strongest nation in the far east. It is worth it to know the facts before bringing anything up!!!!!!
