AHC: Japanese holdout in Pacific Island that becomes militarist Axis regime in exile

Looking back on how so many Nazi war criminals escaped through ODESSA to South America looking to create a "Fourth Reich", and the Japanese holdouts, I wondered. What if the war in the Pacific ended differently, say with Operation Olympic bogging down the Allies and leaving some Pacific Japanese held areas intact with more troops left? Like maybe Micronesia or the Solomons or some part of the East Indies or Mindanao or even Manchukuo? The place has enough troops and is bypassed by the Americans to hold out. Like Onoda or them, but on a larger more organized scale? Then the War Cabinet flees there and tries to keep going from there.
 
Even if Operation Olympic got bogged down the USN had pretty much sunk anything that the Japanese had that could float. There's nothing to stop them from sinking any ships fleeing Japan in 1945 if the Japanese haven't surrendered.
 

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There wasn't anywhere in the world that the Japanese military leadership could run that the Americans wouldn't chase them.
 
Not talking about there was no where in Asia, outside Japan itself, where the Japanese were well liked, putting it mildly. The locals certainly won't hide them.
 
There wasn't anywhere in the world that the Japanese military leadership could run that the Americans wouldn't chase them.

Except into the Sun :p:p

But yeah, I agree with the statement. Besides, it's not like they can run to/into the sun.
 
Perhaps Emperor Hirohito escapes on a I-400 submarine in a permanently moving underwater base hidden at the bottom of the ocean. He eventually has it beached in the Antarctic to plot his revenge.
 
Perhaps Emperor Hirohito escapes on a I-400 submarine in a permanently moving underwater base hidden at the bottom of the ocean. He eventually has it beached in the Antarctic to plot his revenge.
Sounds like the plot of a B movie. Someone make it happen! :p
 
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