AHC/PC:Sinicized/RoC protectorate Shikoku post-Downfall

Suppose Operation Downfall happens and the four-power partition of Japan commenced,but the KMT still loses the mainland China and withdrew to Formosa AND Shikoku.

Could the KMT realistically keep Shikoku and probably enforce Sinicization?What name they could use for the island?What resources could be extracted from there(IIRC it was mostly agricultural,but there's a copper mine)?

Bonus point if the RoC could keep it like Konigsberg/Kaliningrad.
 
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Hmm,i'll moderate this a bit.
The idea is now something like the Saarprotektorat by France.
How long could they keep such arrangements?

Also the KMT also keeps Hainan by the virtue of US participation in the Chinese Civil war.
 
Oh, sorry, didn't see this. Chiang Kai-shek was pretty opposed to holding influence over Japan, but expect Japan and Taiwan to hate each other much more than IOTL. Chiang really wanted to take back the mainland, and he'll either see Shikoku as an unnecessary distraction that will tie him down, or a way to gain more economic and political power that could translate into military power against the PRC.

Shikoku can probably be Sinicized enough for Taiwan to hold onto it, but I feel like Kyushu would be closer to Taiwan... Plus there's a pretty big Chinatown in Nagasaki.

Chiang Kai-shek will be willing to sponsor Taiwanese immigration to Shikoku (I mean the Chinese people in Taiwan before 1949) because there, they would still be very loyal to the KMT, faced with a very hostile Japanese population.

Meanwhile, the White Terror won't just kill Taiwanese people - it'll move them to Shikoku. But it'll kill a lot of Japanese people.

One of the biggest effects is that there'll be more real estate in the ROC, which is bad for my uncle's business. Also, Japan will warm up to the PRC a lot more and a lot quicker, now that Taiwan gets a pretty big claim on Diaoyu/Senkaku Islands. OTL PRC and Japan regularized relationships in 1974 - ITTL, they could do it possibly before the Korean War or half a decade after the War.

China will see Japan moreso as an ally, even if Japan doesn't acknowledge the comfort women. And the Japanese, with a much closer relationship with China, might feel that they need to right past wrongs to oppose their enemy (that's what they're doing OTL with South Korea to counter China), and actually apologize.

My mom learned Japanese in middle/high school. Expect it to become a much more important part of education, potentially rivaling English (my mom also learned that lol).
 
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