Axis Victory World: Japan

OK, this is in the usual (ASB) total Axis victory in World War 2, where Germany, Japan, and (to smaller extent) Italy divide the world between them.

But enough about the Nazis, what about the Japanese? How would Asia and the Pacific be under their "protection"?
All I know is the Greater East Asian Co-prosperity Sphere. A propaganda, but if they got more time, will they really create a federation or a bloc of Asian nations which free from Western influence?
And will their atrocities continue?

Thanks in advance!
 
To too much is known about their plans. They apparently wanted southern India for themselves, while they would set up Kingdoms in most areas. As for the protection part, it would likely involve the ruthless exploitation of the locals.
 
Well, there is a thread with maps of this in the Alternate History Books and Media section of the forum. Beyond that, Japanese would become the dominant language of Greater East Asia, though, interestingly, English might remain significant. Administratively, the Sphere is a series of authoritarian oligarchies with Japanese "advisors" in key posts.
 
I imagine the combination of local insurgency movements with the IJA's propensity for brutalizing their enemies, you could be looking at a seriously depopulated East Asia and Pacific.
 
Japan will create a series of puppet satellites which are independent in name only. Most of which are likely to have as much autonomy as Manchukuo. Their countries will serve as captive markets for Japanese exports and resource exploitation by Japanese companies. Their military will be very limited so not to be a threat to Japan (they'll have small arms, but not much ammunition; no artillery or other big weapons). There will be Japanese "advisors" who will actually run the government. Manchukuo, China, Philippines, Thailand, Burma, and India will be like this. Probably Vietnam and the other areas of French Indochina.

Other areas will be annexed directly to Japan, at least in the immediate future. Malaysia and Indonesia were annexed to the Empire during the war, but may become "independent" in the future.

Japan basically saw the Asian peoples as one big "family" with Japan as the father and mother, and of course you never, ever disobey Ma & Pa.

Since we're in fantasy land already, then we can say that Australia and New Zealand would become open to Japanese settlement with the intent to eventually replace the whites there (and maybe encourage them to eventually leave for Europe or North America).

Provided the locals do not threaten Japanese superiority, then the Japanese do not do much to them. Any organized resistance will be met with varying degrees of violence though, so atrocities are almost guaranteed if the Japanese military becomes involved.

You may want to check these links.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_East_Asia_Conference

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Investigation_of_Global_Policy_with_the_Yamato_Race_as_Nucleus
 
In my opinion the Japanese would probably continue brutalizing and slaughtering the Chinese. Indochina, New Guinea and the like would almost certainly become puppet states, but there could be serious forced depopulation in China and Korea to give the Japanese more "lebensraum."
 
I heard somewhere that the Japanese would relocate their industry to either China or Korea.

But how much the extent of proper Japanese Empire (not including puppet states)? What are their annexed territories?

I think the Western US will be converted into a puppet state a la East Germany, since the Japs didn't have enough manpower to fully control the area.
 
Japan will fall apart, Germany and Italy might initially help a little to prop up their Pacific Empire but Japan simply has too many deficiencies to last. Even with all the oil they would ever need they still need to control the territories that pump it, and they aren't going to engender loyalty by regularly massacring native populations, which might work for a bit but will never last in the long run.

Manchuria plus Korea plus some island stuff and probably forward bases at Formosa but not on Mainland China is probably the best bet for a sustainable Japanese Empire, but that would require the Japanese leadership to admit that they hugely overextended themselves and that their new Pacific Empire will crumble before them if they don't dial back the overextensions, that would require a vastly different leadership that did not exist OTL.
 
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