AHC: Japan Keeps it's Territories

With any combination of PoDs, find a way for the Empire of Japan to keep Manchuria, Taiwan, Sakhalin, the Kurils, and Korea until modern day. Autonomy akin to the level of Scotland/Wales is allowed. Bonus points if Japan is still an Empire
 
I guess most will say they have to somehow stay away from WW2. Also probably the invasion of China 1937 does not happen, or at least not the way it did, maybe ITTL China attacks Japan trying to take Manchuria back or something, and they are sumarily defeated by the japanese army/navy.

Such a Japan though will likely be a nuclear superpower today.
 
The only way that could have happened is if the Japanese stayed out of World War II entirely, that is, if they stopped expanding after Manchuria and avoided a war with China.
 

Yuelang

Banned
Or have Hitler and Chiang agreed to Firmly put China in the Axis camp. Even if Japan still attack China, as long as they declared for Allies and did not outright attack European colonies, it would be utter mess for USA, as ultimately they will abandon China to fight Germany first.Sure, there will be post war tensions, but it may end up in three way Cold war between USA, Soviet Union, and Japan, in which US Japan "hostility" are only skin deep as Japan's aim are basically 'merely' claim Mandate of Heaven' over China, and if China still goes communist, Westerners may end up outright recognizing a Japanese Dynasty claim over Chinese Throne as long as they paid lip services to Democracy...
 

Yuelang

Banned
Well. They could participate on the Allies side, as Yuelang implies.

This explicitly require Axis China though
. Allied Japan who attack a neutral China will mean they didn't fight the Axis at all, and only nominally allied, resulting in USA DOW-ing them anyway in hope that China stay clear of Axis.
 
Basically: Avoid Pearl Harbor and anything south of Taiwan, and your Japanese Empire is clear to go.

Or Yuelang's route is fine too.
 
I could see after the OTL war Japan finagling to get all or part of the Kurils, if Russia doesn't want them, they could be integrated as part of the Hokkaido Prefecture or kept as a separate entity.
 
I could see after the OTL war Japan finagling to get all or part of the Kurils, if Russia doesn't want them, they could be integrated as part of the Hokkaido Prefecture or kept as a separate entity.
They had all of the Kurils. Russia gave them to Japan on 22 August, 1875 on the condition that all claims to Sakhalin were renounced. This was accepted. Of course, after the Russo-Japanese War this was changed to just Northern Sakhalin. The Soviet Union annexed them as WWII was ending.
 
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