Snake Featherston
Banned
OTL is surely about the best Japan can do unless you radically change the nature of the Japanese military and government? I mean how many more lucky breaks could they really get than they did OTL?
Well it was technically speaking at least plausible for them to win a quick victory in Guadalcanal due to the initial lousy job the US military did in planning it. There is also some theoretical possibility they might have won the naval battle at Midway, though they would never have captured the island. Otherwise the USA just buries them in logistics-spam.