That, and also modernise armour corps along Russian lines; streamlining and automation are terrifying things when combined together.
AHC: Japanese Empire plus economic miracle and cultural liberalization of the 60s?
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That assumes the IJA can win the budget fight with the IJN. Industrial bottlenecks will still force Japan to choose between a world class Navy or a world class Army (of which such a build up would inevitably result in cuts to the IJN, Manchurian oil or not, due to huge investments required to remedy the backwards state of Japanese armor technology).
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I'd see that as an advantage for them, because while the U.S. had economic interests in China, they really don't in Russia and there is a high degree of Anti-Bolshevik sentiment within America that Japanese could tap into.
The US is going to start pressing Japan for concessions then, in return for aid.
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Probably not, as Japan was already their largest trading partner. The U.S. would be, just as they were IOTL up until 1941, to sell goods to the Japanese at inflated rates while the IJA fights the Reds (and thus not endangering American interests in China!).