Talk:Japan–Spain relations

Section on Japan and the Philippines under Spanish rule

This section should be included as it represents an important period in the relations between the two countries during which Spain still had interests in Asia. This is the correct place for this information as the relationship at that point was still primarily between Japan and Spain. Japanese attitudes, including their attitude toward the Philippine uprising against the Spanish, and their attitude towards the Spanish-American war, are relevant to the topic of Spanish-Japanese relations as Spain was a combatant in both conflicts, and are well-covered topics in historical literature. It also fills a gap in the historical narrative that, without this section, jumps directly from 1868 to 1945. FOARP (talk) 07:56, 15 September 2020 (UTC)

PS - as a final point, it is simply not true that "We don't add rumours". in fact Wikipedia contains much that is pure fiction (for a start, all the articles about fiction) or which haven't happened or haven't happened yet (e.g., Operation Sealion, World War III). Where the rumour is relevant to the topic, substantiated in reliable sources, it may be included so long as we are clear that it is a rumour. In this case, potential discussions between Spain and Japan regarding selling the Philippines clearly are relevant to the topic of relations between the two countries. It highlights factually that Japan may have considered buying, or Spain may have considered selling, the Philippines.