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Oh dear, I sense a certain sea mammal coming :D.

America likes to finish big, Japan was set to starve by 45-46 before it was nuked. At the worst case they send the troops for operation Downfall home and just keep enough navy personal to keep Japan starving/radioactive, they had several more nukes in production by then: if Japan continued it...

You're still missing the point, put some effort in your posts. That's a 3 sentence response, which seems to be your historic limit for quality and thoroughness. It's no different from your antics about Japan cherry-picking colonial resources with no delays/disruptions or the assertion that half...

Look sorry about that, it just gets frustrating when it seems like you guys are being snub about it. (and in your case I was wrong, I'm sorry) Comments like: Doesn't add anything to the debate and makes it seem like you think I'm wrong, but are too high and mighty to bother proving it. Short...

When Britain was engaged in a war for it's survival in Europe, it's the equivalent of saying you can take on 10 shackled marines.

If you keep bringing up the point of collaborators after several people repeatedly point out the flaws in your statement, and then you keep proposing the same event in China without changing the underlying conditions in the IJA command and expecting something different to happen: then yes that's...

It's been like this the entire 8 pages and every aspect of the war has been covered from the guerrillas in the occupied territories, to the problems of resource extraction, to the politics in China, to the problem the collaborators, to the relative weakness of the IJN vs the RN and USN, to the...

Ok good day then, I have no further interest in this.

So your arguing that carrier based bombers with 500lb bombs can do what strategic bombers over a period of 2 years do and suppress Pearl Harbor's facilities until, 1942?

See? I can make unsupported claims too.

Unless you have something more than a personal attack to justify Japan's ridiculous goal of carving an empire out of the world two foremost naval powers, I suggest you take a breather and come back in 5 minutes. But they didn't, how were they going to find the Enterprise? What's the stop the...

So? It was only a matter of time before the USN got to them.

Because they thought that the US would concede after it lost it's Pacific fleet? Despite all the industrial, manpower, and technological odds stacked up against them they went ahead thinking that the Americans would just give up. There's no logical way to back it up short of racism.

So what? What does this even add? They knew it was risky and they were gamblers. They went ahead anyways thinking that the white man and would give in easily. And their calculations failed miserably. Oil and rubber, two things not in China. In OTL the shortage became severe by 1941, way before...

Yes but Japan was certainly represented by both branches of it's military.

How about Japanese aggression and the problems that it attacked the US first? The Japanese high command was under the assumption that the Americans were not going to let the Japanese gain power and that White men were cowards and hence their plan to cow the US into submission by attacking Pear...

And your ignoring the part where Japan lost the war at sea. They did, not intentionally but it was the effect.

Then why are you arguing the point and comparing them to Nazis as if that somehow made them more likable to the Chinese?

Uh huh, so not caring if millions of Chinese peasants died in forced labor or neglectful starvation is somehow suppose to make them likable to the Chinese? Or is the Three all policy somehow not extermination?

Why? There's a difference between a single raid at the end of the logistical trail scaring the British into withdrawing capital ships from the Indian Ocean to giving up land without fight for it. Unless the Japanese can somehow make it logistically impossible for the British to field armies in...