Should we establish an embassy with Japan?

The results of this poll show the citizens' desire to establish an embassy with Japan. The cost of this embassy will be 40 gold. This is a binding poll to determine whether we should establish this embassy.

Aren't embassies removed after we declare war on a country? If so, the gold seems wasted.

The embassies are not removed, but rather ineffective during the duration of the struggle.

I can see both sides of this one. A embassy now may be a waste depending upon how we dispose of the Japanese down the road. However, that 40g investment in the embassy may well be enough to keep Japan off our backs until such time as we are ready to deal with them.

Yes.

I really don't think it's wise spending all that gold on an embassy that soon will be useless. We should rather concentrate on establishing lasting liaisons with whom we are to conduct trade with in the future.

Tough call. I would think the only time to place an embassy in Japan would be after we determined that they had achieved chivalry, and just before we went to war. The 40g spent on the embassy would immediately be lost (until the end of the war), but we would be able to see the city screen for Kyoto. This would give us their capital's production schedule, strategic resources, lux's, etc. at the very begining of our war with them. That 40g peek may be worth it. I'll vote yes.

True, but I kind of agree with Absinth. We can already see their resources, and can estimate their city's production.