The Opening of Japan?

[GBW]

It's late December 1941. Rear Admiral Kimmel, formerly Admiral Kimmel, CIC of the US Pacific Fleet until earlier that month, has watched his career go down in flames and sees the Japanese inflicting defeat upon defeat against the Europeans and the US in the Pacific. He bitterly remembers being struck by a spent bullet during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and wishing it had killed him.

Then, as he goes to bed on December 31 to awaken in the troubled year 1942, he suddenly finds himself clad in an outdated US naval uniform and aboard a black-hulled steam frigate as it and a squadron of other steamships leave Norfolk, Virginia. Through observation and some questions, it soon becomes obvious where he is and, more importantly, who he is.

It's the year 1852. Kimmel is now inhabiting the body of Commodore Matthew Perry and is now en route with this squadron to Edo, Japan to try and open the country to the outside world with a demonstration of force. The same country that he knows will eventually launch a massive offensive in the Pacific and drive the Europeans and United States before them.

What happens now?

[GBW]

This one went off like a wet firecracker. :rolleyes:

I really should think of flashier titles, I guess...

[Nekromans]

What, like

WHAM! BAM! ISOT NEAR JAPAN!

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[DuQuense]

I'm not sure that there is much he can do, Perry doesn't have the Force needed to attack Japan, and except for adopting Roman Script, Japan Complited with all the other Modernization suggestions.

Japans rise to Milicantcy has more to do with Russian Actions over Shalikin Island in the Late 1700's~early 1800's and then againg in 1870's and 1890's Followed by Japan's defeat in 1905.

Maybe leasing part of Shalakin Island for a American Naval Base, then the US would have a stake in promoting the Japanese Claims to the Island.
Japan doesn't feel the need to Militarize to protect their claims from the Russians.

I'm really hesitant about this in a way -?what would the English and French have done if the Chinese Empire had built forts in the 1750's Ohio Valley -To keep the two side apart?

The Butterflies of the US so Blatantly [from the Czar's viewpoint] taking the Japanese side.........

[Dynamitard]

Japan would get blown to smithereens and wouldn't be a force to reckon with in the 1940s. But just like Einstien in the Red Alert TL, the American time travler will soon find out that nothing's really changed, as America is invaded and destroyed by a super-powerful Maoist China.