Australia's place with a Japanese Asian Empire?

If Japan was able to carve out its East Asian empire following World War 2 where would that have left Australia?

It would seemingly have been cut-off from its allies.
 
I think the scenario depends on how Japan is able to carve an East Asian Empire in the first place - how does Japan win in the first place?
 
Japan is able to defeat the US after. the Americans attack and end up being pressured by the anti-war movement to leave Japan alone.
 
In 1957, in spite of a lot of bad feeling against the Japanese from WW2, Australia set up a trade agreement that was for a large part the basis for our economic prosperity. I'm guessing that with a victorious Japan but unconquered Australia such an agreement would take place earlier.
 
Perhaps the Japanese don't attack the US and manage to successfully overwhelm the European colonial powers in the Pacific while Australia is cut off from Britain?
 
Cutting Australia off only counts in wartime, once peace is declared Australia can freely use the seas again so is not cut off from a trade point of view.

However in peacetime Australia will be strategically isolated from its actual and potential allies, UK and USA who IOTL were heavily engaged in South East Asia; the US in the Philippines (later Vietnam) and western Pacific and the British in Malaya.

ITTL this won't be the case, so in terms of security Australia will have to tread a very different path. I think the postwar migrant and baby boom will still occur with attendant economic boom, but much of the fruits will be directed toward Defence spending rather than reinvested back into the economy. This will mean that likely the Adelaide-Darwin railway gets but in the 40s and 50s, the 51-59 conscription scheme is started earlier, run differently and retained longer, the defence industry sector supported for strategic purposes and nuclear weapons pursued.
 

althisfan

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Japan is able to defeat the US after. the Americans attack and end up being pressured by the anti-war movement to leave Japan alone.
Can you elaborate? So there is no Pearl Harbor and therefore Roosevelt just goes rogue and attacks the Japanese first for some unspecified reason without Congress declaring war? I don't see a way for there to be a credible "anti-war" movement given the US and Canadian racist attitudes towards Asians and Japanese in particular. Eventually Japan has to attack the Philippines and Guam, the US only has to wait until the Japanese "accidentally on purpose" (or legitimately accidentally) attacks an American ship within American territory.
 
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