AH Challenge: make a north and south Japan

yea i want a north and south JAPAN. id like to know what new aircraft/tanks/weapons come out of this

Easiest way to do it is A joint Soviet/US occupation via delaying the atom bombs - call it tecnical problems, delay the US atom bombs until the Soviets have a foothoild in Hokkaido, but before the US invades Honshu.

BTW, just a geographical note - Japan really doesn't divide N/S. Historically it's E/W, but a NE/SW is most accurate...
 
If you split east and west then it be a too long border. And then the soviets would have to got to the south of japan i doint think so. so it be
North and South Japan not East and west.
 
yea i want a north and south JAPAN.

That's easy.

North Japan = Hokkaido should be enough; if not, there's also the northern part of the Tohoku region
South Japan = everything else

I could easily see some differences in the Japanese language, for starters. How different is, say, the Sapporo dialect from the Tokyo dialect? (since I could easily see the Sapporo dialect being the basis for the Japanese language in a hypothetical North Japan)
 
Unless Soviet helps invade japan i dont think they will get a north japan without giving up there share of Korea.

Anyways for weapons ive heard the north is really mountainous and sorta cold so if North decides to make their own weapons industry instead of buying from Soviet (which is unlikely) they might have good mountain troops. The focus of North will probably be defense because they have Soviet to protect them. Maybe a few bio weapons.

Anyways i think the JSDF might not be so "Self Defensey" with North around.
 
yea if the soviets would have went along with x-day then theyre would be a north and south and a east and west germant and a north and south korea.. but i like the guy who posted before me's iddea the mountian troops now hes listening
 
If you split east and west then it be a too long border. And then the soviets would have to got to the south of japan i doint think so. so it be
North and South Japan not East and west.

Here's Japan divided north to south...

ewj.jpg
 
And here's east-west...

Which border's shorter?

Edit: that's freaking weird... those were two different images when I uploaded them...

Edit 2: hopefullfy this gets it...
ewj.jpg
 
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Unless Soviet helps invade japan i dont think they will get a north japan without giving up there share of Korea.

Anyways for weapons ive heard the north is really mountainous and sorta cold so if North decides to make their own weapons industry instead of buying from Soviet (which is unlikely) they might have good mountain troops. The focus of North will probably be defense because they have Soviet to protect them. Maybe a few bio weapons.

Anyways i think the JSDF might not be so "Self Defensey" with North around.

The whole country's mountainous, pretty much...

And dividing the country N/S is ASB...

The geography just doesn't woek that way.

And divided Japn won't have an SDF. It'll be more like N/S Korea. But the PDRJ will make the PDRK look soft...
 
No way will the soviets get Tokyo they can say they deserve Berlin because they did most of the fighting but no way will they get the capital for invading China and Korea.

I just got this random idea of if the split is agreed on USA uses what atomic bombs they have on the Soviet side and say that they are attacking japan as an excuse.

Maybe instead of a land split soviets claim Hokkaido, Shikoku, Kyushu and leave "mainland" japan to America. It wouldent look pretty but it might work better geographically speaking.

And divided Japn won't have an SDF. It'll be more like N/S Korea. But the PDRJ will make the PDRK look soft...

I thought japan was really pacifistish right now?
 
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