Better-equipped, more industrialized Japan during World War II

We've gone a bit off from what I originally wanted to discuss. Regardless of how it's done, Japan is an industrial power capable of rivaling Britain at the start of World War II, with a far more competent army.

Well, if you dont want to address the inherent obstacles to accomplishing this, go full ASB. Give them equivalent of T-34s or Tigers and let them roll on Siberia. Wank away and have fun with it.

Lest you think I am being trite, engineering and design often do go hand in hand with production as the experience in production aids the engineering and design. So you can pretty much let your imagination go.
 
Well, if you dont want to address the inherent obstacles to accomplishing this, go full ASB. Give them equivalent of T-34s or Tigers and let them roll on Siberia. Wank away and have fun with it.

As I've pointed out, it's difficult, but not impossible. It is certainly plausible with the right POD. Japan rapidly overhauled a two century-old social order and modernized at rapid speed, so I'm sure it's within the realm of possibility.
 
Is there a way to convince the IJA it needs better tanks before Khalkin-Gol?

Maybe have a delegation visit a French factory and look at the H-35 and R-35 plus the prototype of the Char B-1? Or visit the UK and the the Matilda I and II?
 

raharris1973

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Is there a way to convince the IJA it needs better tanks before Khalkin-Gol?

Maybe have a delegation visit a French factory and look at the H-35 and R-35 plus the prototype of the Char B-1? Or visit the UK and the the Matilda I and II?

I think actually having an expeditionary force in wwi's western front could do a lout to increase the IJA' s respect fore firepower and armor.
 

nbcman

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As I've pointed out, it's difficult, but not impossible. It is certainly plausible with the right POD. Japan rapidly overhauled a two century-old social order and modernized at rapid speed, so I'm sure it's within the realm of possibility.
It would be an ASB event but a POD would be no Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923. It caused over a Billion US dollars (1923 dollars) in damage which was 4 times the Japanese goverment budget for that year. The earthquake and the aftermath resulted in the deaths of 100k+ people. Avoiding that loss of life, money and property could allow for greater economic development. The earthquake also caused great changes in the Japanese psyche as some felt it was divine retribution.
 
I think actually having an expeditionary force in wwi's western front could do a lout to increase the IJA' s respect fore firepower and armor.
I think it might have helped, perhaps as important as those lessons would have been the appreciation of the sort of logistics system that the Allied powers would be able to create from scratch. It might have highlighted to Japan that how outclassed they were.
 
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