AHC: US anaxes Japan

yourworstnightmare

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The US doesn't need to turn the Japanese into dragonflies. They have the ability to do that themselves without the help of Uncle Sam.
 
Japan receives shipments of uranium by sub more quickly from Germany and launches a dirty bomb strike against San Francisco and biological weapons against LA and SD. In outrage, the US 'Japanese spoken only in hell' faction goes much much harder against the Japanese, maintaining a strangling starvation blockade and using more atomic bombs than OTL. The USSR takes advantage also to annex more Japanese conquests and destroy more Japanese forces than OTL. The occupation of Japan is more brutal than OTL and a very high fraction of the population perishes. The US makes Japan a territory, and eventually a state, probably sometime in the 1990s.
 
Japan receives shipments of uranium by sub more quickly from Germany and launches a dirty bomb strike against San Francisco and biological weapons against LA and SD. In outrage, the US 'Japanese spoken only in hell' faction goes much much harder against the Japanese, maintaining a strangling starvation blockade and using more atomic bombs than OTL. The USSR takes advantage also to annex more Japanese conquests and destroy more Japanese forces than OTL. The occupation of Japan is more brutal than OTL and a very high fraction of the population perishes. The US makes Japan a territory, and eventually a state, probably sometime in the 1990s.

Probably requires reducing the population of Japan by over 80%, which seems unlikely...

I mean, if you want to do something along these lines, rather a WWIII in which Japan is a close US ally, US "get's it's hair mussed", but Japan is utterly devastated. US occupies Japan to help rebuild the place, and by the 90s, a US no longer as firmly dominated by racists twits as it was in the 1940s annexes with local support the 10 million or so surviving Japanese, who are worried about their chances for national survival in the face of the rising Chinese Menace (China stayed neutral in WWIII, and now resembles North Korea in the Large Economy size, with atomic ICBMs).


Bruce
 
Wouldn't a better idea for this be that the USA annexes Japan before the Meiji restoration? One of the biggest basis for Japanese identity would be Emperor and the survival of the Japanese Imperial Family. Assuming, say, the Emperor and his family perished before Perry's arrival, that would leave a chaotic enough situation for US fleets to land, try and restore order, and eventually annex Japan.

However, since this is the post-1900 forum, I'm going to have to accept the limitation of annexing post-war Japan. The biggest fulcrum here is the destruction of the Japanese Imperial Family. Or leastways, a surrender scenario where the Japanese are too broken to even request the Imperial Family stay untouched.
 
I can without much effort come up with scenario to wipeout 1/4 to 1/2 of the pre-war population of Japan.

Just have trinity test fail (its debated by some as to if nukes or soviet invasion mattered more in the end).

With no abomb to surrender to, Japanese leadership digs in. If Operation Downfall goes forward combined with the USN being able to pressure the Air Force into going after in infrastructure targets the Japanese economy and distribution system collapses. They face starvation winter of 1945-46. You can project Okinawa level casualties across cross any island hit.

The brutal fighting combined with starvation should hit 1/2 killed. To push the losses higher I don't know. They would surrender eventually but I don't see 80% population death rate happening without a full year of no food production and heavy combat.

Michael
 
There's no reason for such an anneation to ever occur, leaving alone the structural challenges such a prospect would pose.
 
One of the "People from an Alternate Universe" threads had Japan annexed after an alt-WWII. But, as all the Senators and Representatives from Japan supported independence, it reobtained it pretty soon as the Republic of Japan.
 
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