When I was a teenager, the Cold War was a realistic fear.

The arrival of nuclear missiles and the landing of Soviet (x Russian) troops in Hokkaido was a real possibility.

On the other hand, I had never thought about a Chinese invasion of Taiwan.

China was poor then (believe it or not, now).

Including me,

"50 years later, Kyiv has been invaded, not Hokkaido"

Such a future was unimaginable to anyone 50 years ago.

To begin with, Ukraine was one of the constituent states of the Soviet Union.

Ukraine's independence from the Soviet Union (1991) can be grasped in the same way that Hokkaido became independent from Japan as "Hokkaido koku."

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I once told my daughters about Ukraine and Taiwan using a paradim,

"If Hijikata Toshizo and Enomoto Takeaki had succeeded in establishing the nation of Hokkaido in the Restoration War,"

However, they did not understand me at all.

I think that the Hokkaido version of "Rurouni Kenshin" has not been animated.

(Or the Bakumatsu version of "Golden Kamuy," for example.)