AHC: Wank the Japanese as much as possible in WW2

Can you hear that sound? It's the sound of CalBear's heavy steps in the distance, bringing another japano-skeptical comment.

IMO, Japan had the chance to be even luckier in WW2. However, it would still be all in vain, because of Allied production capacities compared to Japan's.
Even if Germany manages to conquer Russia in 1941 and make a favourable peace with the Allies, Japan is still screwed, because all those US troops who would otherwise be used for an European campaign will instead be brought to their turf.
 

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Can you hear that sound? It's the sound of CalBear's heavy steps in the distance, bringing another japano-skeptical comment.
Oh yeah Japan was really fucking lucky OTL. Like honestly the fact that they lasted 4 fucking years is pretty amazing.

IMO, Japan had the chance to be even luckier in WW2. However, it would still be all in vain, because of Allied production capacities.
Oh they'll lose, definitely. How would you bring this about though?
 
You mentioned that Japan could have gotten luckier in WW2. Well what would happen?
Japan had opportunities to invade India (during 1942 or the Imphal-Kohima Campaign of 1944), invade Darwin in northwestern Australia, execute Operation Ichi-Go earlier (perhaps through a success at Midway), encircle Australia, and also stall the Americans in the Pacific for a few more years. But they only had so much capability for multitasking.
 
Japan had opportunities to invade India (during 1942 or the Imphal-Kohima Campaign of 1944), invade Darwin in northwestern Australia, execute Operation Ichi-Go earlier (perhaps through a success at Midway), encircle Australia, and also stall the Americans in the Pacific for a few more years.
Logistics make most of those impossible.
 
Perhaps killling the competition between the army and the navy early on, possibly by having one side be clearly victorious in its quest for supremacy? This surely improves the war effort, as there is no division of resources and a lack of cooperation.
 
So it seems a lot of people are leaning on "just don't go to war with the Western Powers" which makes sense. Japan is a newcomer late to the game and is not able to catch up to the West just yet. So let's assume that they do stay out of the war then....How powerful can they get?

Much depends on how effectively they could bang the drum for the 'Asia for the Asians' idea and pressure the colonial powers to withdraw from the region as they did after OTL WWII. If you face a Britain, France and Netherlands, exhausted by a war in Europe then maybe they could achieve something akin to their post WWII industrial success, trading the resources of South East Asia for Japanese industrial goods. This is of course a massive long shot, it would assume Japan could do this without coming into conflict with the USA and also that they could overcome their unpleasant history with China and Korea.
 
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