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The Sam-il movement, or the March 1st movement, were a series of protests and demonstrations against Japanese rule, inspired by the multitude of post-war revolutions and the "Fourteen Points", promulgated by Woodrow Wilson(however hypocritical it might have been in regards to the US' own...

After the Japanese surrender on August 15th, Nobusuke Kishi was held at Sugamo Prison as a suspected Class A war criminal for his activities in managing war production and armaments in occupied Manchuria, allegedly working 60% of his laborers to death, but he was never indicted and tried by the...

This wasn't super widespread, but in the early 20th century, some pan-Asianists in Japan converted to Islam and advocated the Japanese people adopt Islam as well. The Ottoman Caliph patronised the construction of the first mosque in Tokyo, for example (although it would not be completed until...

The idea of it lasting to 1947 is unlikely, even in the event that the atom bomb was never used or invented. With the complete annihilation of the Kwantung Army by China and the USSR, the destruction of any remaining infrastructure by American saturation bombing, and the rapid depletion of...

World War II was a war of resources. The most crucial Allied operations, the "Three Tide-Turning Battles" (named so despite being operational level and each containing several fights) centered around the crucial axis oil fields of Matzen, Libya, and Manchuria. At the cost of hundreds of...

On the morning of March 23, 1976, ultranationalist Japanese actor Mitsuyasu Maeno and two friends, dressed in the uniforms of kamikaze pilots, rented two planes claiming they were using them for a publicity stunt to help promote a movie that was in the works. Maeno's real purpose, however, was...

I mean, I'm no expert on Japan, but it seems as if people rarely do anything interesting with it. It's often an afterthought in most timelines, and though it usually gets to do at least some cool shit, it's almost always either a constitutional monarchy or some sort of fascist monarchy. I have...

As the title suggests, what has to happen for Japan to fall before Germany?

Japanese Democracy goes back to taisho era, which managed to stablize despite great depression. Your goal, is with PoD of 1920, is to have Japan fall to totalitarianism by late 1930s.