Your challenge is : How do you get Japan to colonize Malaysia in ww1? Perhaps Malaysia gets colonized by Germany instead of Britain or Japan joins Central Powers and they win ww1 ?
Your challenge is : How do you get Japan to colonize Malaysia in ww1? Perhaps Malaysia gets colonized by Germany instead of Britain or Japan joins Central Powers and they win ww1 ?
Or le frenchmenAnd also, if the British hadn't already been there pre-WW1 then probably the Dutch would have been instead....
Adding to the guys above..
The Japanese dudes DIDNT considering Imperialism as their objective until WW2.
Adding to the guys above..
The Japanese dudes DIDNT considering Imperialism as their objective until WW2.
The Japanese dudes DIDNT considering Imperialism as their objective until WW2.
Korea certainly wouldn't stop at just begging to differ.Taiwan, Korea, Manchuria, and Mongolia would beg to differ (although technically those latter two were more of sphere of influence).
Back to the topic: the only way I see this happening is if Britain sold off North Borneo to Japan in exchange for aid and the German Pacific Islands. Then you would have part of Malay as Japanese.
Returning to the topic, perhaps the Japanese can take Malaysia if- (and I'm assuming many things in this here) the Japanese were on the other side of the British. Perhaps they can collaborate with the Americans and take over the Pacific.
French expansion there would have been fairly unlikely at any date before the Dutch would probably have taken over instead, I think, barring a French triumph in the Napoleonic Wars (or earlier) in which case... butterflies...Or le frenchmen
Yeah this.Ahahahahahaha.
Lolno.
The US probably could be cajoled into it somehow. Japan OTOH, was tied at the hip to Britain thanks to strategic concerns on both sides.The brings up the question of why Japan or the US would fight Britain in WW1, which is the era the OP is talking of.
This is possible if the UK stays out, since the IJA was really close to Germany at the time, and well, Russia will be too busy elsewhere to protect all ofHow about Japan joining the Central Powers and they win?
Japanese banking interests didn't have that much money.I remember the Japanese had spare capital during the war, a pretty scarce commodity at times. Maybe the US stays neutral and Britain gets desperate enough to sell off Malaya to stay in the war.
Japan would have to be stupid to join the Central Powers. If it did so, it would have to fight, by itself, in a theater which the Entente reigned supreme (kind of like WWII, I guess). You'd have to have very, very, very desperate to do something like that, and Japan was never that desperate in WWI.