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You should be more clear when you write these broad generalizations about other countries. 

To be clear: Japanese shogun Ashikaga Yoshimitsu was the only person who accepted the Chinese title of "king" in 1404 despite not being the Emperor of Japan. For a brief period until his death in 1408 Japan was an official tributary state. In 1549 Japan ceased to recognize China's hegemony and left it's tributary system.