Silvio Franke <silvio.franke@unibw-muenchen.de> wrote:

> Scott Reynolds schrieb:

>> It is interesting to ask oneself, however, why today there is a
>> Commonwealth of Nations of which Britain and several former British
>> colonies are members, but no Japanese Commonwealth (or perhaps the term
>> should be Co-prosperity Sphere).

> The answer is quite simple. Japan lost the war. Britain not.

Odd. Britain's lost several wars, yet still there is a Commonwealth...

Mike