AHC: Ottoman Empire and Imperial Japan swap

The challenge is to switch the fates of the Ottoman Empire and Imperial Japan. POD starts at 1900.

Bonus if both survives to the present day.
 
Hard, very hard. Ottomans are ethnically divided, while Japan barely is; the Ottomans control a strategically significant area of landmass, while Japan is both safe from the mainland continent and within the Pacific Rim; POD at 1900 is too late to see so much change. POD at 1860 can't help either, I think.
 
The challenge is to switch the fates of the Ottoman Empire and Imperial Japan. POD starts at 1900.

Bonus if both survives to the present day.
We needs an earlier POD to make the OE a Great Power in the first half of the 20th Century. One thing that the Ottoman Empire did that I think was very wise, was that in the 1800's and 1900'sthey brought in foreing military advisors to help them modernize their army. Even Moltke was brought in.
 
To survive World War One intact the Ottoman Empire has to develop an armaments industry of the same size as Austria-Hungary or Italy. That incudes the ability to build dreadnoughts in small numbers without foreign technical or material assistance. This requires a POD before 1900.

However, if the Ottoman Empire had been able to do that they would also have performed much bettter in the Balkan Wars and against Italy. They would probably still have the Dodecanese Islands and Libya in 1914.

It would also help if it had greater racial homogenity, which would have also required a POD before 1900.
 
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