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Pretty much the title. I've read a fair bit about how the Army and Navy in Imperial Japan circumvent the civilian government and act independently. That causes some issues for Japan both internally and externally so it seems like a pretty big issue that would have to be solved in order to have a...

The purpose of this thread is not discussing how the American-British-Dutch-Australian Command managed to fend off against the invasion of the Southwest Pacific including but not limiting to the Dutch East Indies and the Philippines i.e. Bataan successfully holding out until, say, the fall of...

I've read there's a Japanese document found by the Allies of WWII, in which a plan for an invasion of Latin America is detailed; specifically, a perimeter around the Panama Canal comprising Central America, parts of Colombia, parts of Venezeula, Ecuador, and Peru. I think it's called Tanaka...

This is probably ASB, considering that the last time an anti-surrender coup was attempted it failed miserably, and by now the entire Japanese population has heard of the surrender and the Emperor's announcement. Would it be possible, between August 15 and September 2, for the Matsue Incident...

Pretty much what it says on the tin. The relations between the Imperial Japanese Army and Navy were always incredibly fraught, but they only occasionally reached the point of actual large-scale violence (there was plenty of assassination). Your challenge is to create a full scale civil war...