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Europe took about a little over a millennium to start consolidating via the EU. It will take a while for Asia to catch up. And then of course there's the African Union. I remember reading a novel where the major powers were the Pan-Asia Confederation, the Altantic Federation, the Oceanics...

For the record... The Japanese language actually originated from China during the Tang dynasty when a prince of the an early separate Japanese kingdom (prefects?) sent an envoy. (Why do you think Kanji is so deeprooted in the japanese language even after so many hiragana revisions?). However...