Communist North Japan+Super UN TL; need some help

Okay, i decided that my old TL idea was shitty and so I'm going to be making another one; this project will focus on the paths of certain nations in a world where the UN is much more potent as a result of American superiority over the other three victorious but exhausted and unstable superpowers (the UK, USSR, and ROC). See my "Dystopian UN" thread for a better idea.

The first nation I will direct my attention to is Japan. In my TL I plan to have a much more successful JCP, that eventually capitalizes on earlier failures in the Japanese militarist leadership and is able to mount an uprising against it. This leads to the creation of North Japan, backed by the Communist (Stalinist) world, and South Japan, backed by the UN.
In the Cold War, Soviet Japan lags behind the South, and like OTL North Korea becomes super extreme. Its leadership espouses the insane ideology of "Supreme-Principle Revolution" or "Shinri-Kakumei". This leads to it being distanced from its allies and forming ever-worse relations with South Japan, which leads to a brutal second Japanese Civil War.

So what I need help on is:
- How does the JCP get more powerful? Are there any online texts I can read to learn more about the situation, since Wikipedia is unhelpful?
- Is the scenario at all plausible, or how could it be?
- Are there any suggestions?


There are three other possibilities, occurring in the same TL but in different nations/times:
- USSR: How the USSR, without American aid early on, is heavily damaged by WW2 (moreso than OTL) and after a short but bloody civil war in the aftermath of Stalin's 1949 death, joins a super-powerful USA in forming the UN with South China (ROC) and the UK.
- USA: How an intelligent, ambitious President, after a string of crappy predecessors, liberates Europe and negotiates the forming of the UN.
- North China: How Mao Zedong fights against Jiang Jieshi in a vastly different Anti-Japanese War and is forced to settle for the north part of China, where he becomes the leader of the international communist movement to counter the UN.

What do you guys think? Can anyone with a good knowledge of Asian history help?
 
So far, the most suitable POD for a Communist North Japan is this: Have the war go on longer. Either bugger up the Manhattan Project in some way other than messing up with the laws of physics or have General Anami's coup against the Emperor succeed. That way America will be forced to invade Japan, dragging the war. A longer Second World War might also give the Soviets the chance to invade Hokkaido and turn it Communist with the JCP in charge when the war ends. It is a very plausible scenario though.

The North China idea, however, is quite implausible. Unless you can make Jiang Jieshi and his cronies less corrupt and strengthen his really weak and poorly trained army overnight, I don't see how he could have held Mao's forces to a standstill. Jiang basically mismanaged most of the aid the Americans gave him and even made ludicrous requests. He wanted the Americans to provide him with super heavy tanks to combat the Japanese when it was clear that a Sherman was more than enough. Also, during the Second World War, Jiang devoted most of the aid provided by the Americans to combat Mao instead of the Japanese. So, no North Japan.
 
Well, my idea for the war in Asia is quite different than OTL. There are several important differences:
- Japan attacks Russia in 1941 (TTL Barbarossa happens in early 1942), instead of 1939. Because Stalin is more paranoid at this time, he orders the annexation of parts of Manchuria to create a buffer.
- As a result, the Japanese are forced to put their best divisions in Manchuria, instead of fighting the ROC. This leads to a stronger GMD.
- Stalin also gives more aid to GMD, as does America (the US doesn't enter the war until 1944).
- There is no Pearl Harbor, as the Japanese military is scared shitless by the Russians. However they run very low on resources due to hostile US relations
- This leads to an attack on the Philippines (as a gateway to Indonesian oil) in 1944 which unlike OTL turns out to be a massive blunder. War with USA.
- At home, the JCP is gaining support and tries to take power amid a coup following the Philippines fiasco. This attempt fails but sets the stage for Communist dominance.
- In 1945 or 46, Japan sues for peace with the United States in lieu of Stalin's invasion of Manchuria and Hokkaido. There is a another communist plot to take power, which leads to a civil war on Honshu, and is the first proxy war, with both the Soviets and Americans backing their respective allies.
- Civil war ends in 1947-8. North Japan has Hokkaido and Tohoku, as well as a slice of Kanto and half of Tokyo, mirroring the OTL division of Germany.

- Stalin dies in 1949, shortly after WW2. There is a Soviet civil war which ends up with a Stalinist Siberian state (which allies itself to North Japan, the PRC, and Korea) and a pro-West USSR in which has the rest of the Soviet Union. Because of extreme damage incurred during WW2 and the civil war, it accepts American help and has a hand in setting up the UN.


As I said before, what I need help on is the internal Japanese (and JCP) political dynamic from around 1930 to 1945.
 

TheCrow__

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I think it would be more interesting to see Japan not being OTLs Korea. It would be more interesting to see Japan develop it's own form of communism-based off of maybe Confucian principles and such. Instead of being Stalinist.
 
Well part of the idea is that Japan goes it's own path, being alienated from the rest of its alliance. I guess that doesn't make it less like North Korea though (although I'm planning a more apocalyptic touch, based on influences from Aum Shinrikyo). hence, "Shinri-Kakumei."
 

TheCrow__

Banned
I just respect that the people of Japan after already being controlled by capitalist millitants. Would not allow something so even more state controlled to take power. Especially after a harsher WWII with the USSR being directly involved in taking them out. I see the Japanese being a little smarter. Maybe it could be more municipally controlled?
 
Alas...history is tragic. Russia had been controlled by a tsar; that didn't stop the Bolsheviks from taking power and setting up an even more ruthless regime.
 

TheCrow__

Banned
Yes I know this but at the time those people were very under-educated. As far as I know the people of Japan have seemed to be some very intelligent people. And it's a little bit later and the socialist doctrine could be seen differently for the people of Japan. Other than the strict party controled dictatorship of the proletariat. And I would find that more interesting. But it's your TL so do as you may just suggestions.:D
 
A longer Second World War might also give the Soviets the chance to invade Hokkaido and turn it Communist with the JCP in charge when the war ends. It is a very plausible scenario though.
I knew this is a popular cliche, but I don't see it as very plausible.
Stalin had agreed at the Tehran Conference to take Karafuto, and leave the other home Islands to the US & GB.
Given the state of forces in the pacific theater, I don't see cautious Stalin trying to break this agreement.
 
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