they made a different continent Akavir the 'east asian fantasy tropes' place but i don't recall whether they have humanoid people or just snake people.

but also the Imperial Empire in the setting is in my head-canon the basically the chinese empire, so clearly 'imperials' should be chinese with roman names. it makes perfect sense. i actually replaced all the imperial military with ming dynasty soldiers in the elder scrolls total war mod lol

So there's bigger TES heads on the site, but from what I understand no

The Empire in TES goes through three iterations: The Nedes' First Empire, The Akiviri Second Empire, and The Cyrodiilic Third Empire.

The Japanese-coded guys were the Akiviri, The Imperials (Cyrodiilic) were subjects to the Akivir Potentate until it collapses and they build the third empire out of those ruins.

i don't think so. the bodyguard blades guys are samurai for esoteric lore reasons, and before oblivion part of the province was supposed to be rain-forest, but from their appearance in Redguard they've been mostly latin-named and roman-esque