DBWI: Crisis in the Japanese Empire!

OOC: There have been many DBWIs set in a world with a surviving Nazi Germany, so I've decided to let the Japanese Empire survive instead. The Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere includes everything from Hawaii to New Guinea to Burma to Tibet and Mongolia. Japanese control over the GEACPS is maintained by a mix of Japanese zaibatsus dominating Asian economies and a very militarized and well-armed Japan. All Japanese men must do five years of IJA/IJN/IJAF service, and all other Asian countries' armies are at least 15 years behind that of Japan. Consequently, the Japanese economy is crumbling under its bloated military and Japan today feels exactly like Russia just before the Berlin Wall's fall.

IC: The BBC has obtained exclusive footage from the Taiwanese capital Taihoku showing angry mobs torching Shinto shrines and chanting "Down with the Japanese dogs!" This follows the coal miners' strike in Manchuria, the food riots in Vietnam, and the spate of bombings at the oil terminals of Borneo. Buddhist monks in Tibet are now openly marching in the streets chanting mantras against the Japanese. So far the IGH back in Tokyo has given a very muddled response both promising dialogue and merciless crackdown. Seems like dissent in the IJA's ranks is growing.
 
OOC: How did Japan come to possess Hawaii, Mongolia, and Tibet?
OOC: Magic is my best explanation. Hawaii, pretty obvious with the whole 'The United States owns it.' Mongolia? It was part of the Comintern, right? Tibet? Fuck. The Japanese physically couldn't get past the industrial coast in China.
 
OOC: How did Japan come to possess Hawaii, Mongolia, and Tibet?

OOC: Let's say Hitler lost power in the 1930s and Stalin's purges were even more brutal. Isolationists have a stronger hand in the US. Consequently, no re-armament, no lend-lease, no assistance to China. Japan strikes Mongolia and occupies parts of the Russian Far East, and Stalin agrees to hand over Mongolia. Britain is in no position to support its Tibetan protectorate, and Japan installs a puppet as Dalai Lama. Japan strikes Pearl Harbor, but this time Americans are in no mood to confront the Japanese, and the Hawaiian monarchy is restored like in Manchuria. I know this is ASB, but there are so many other threads about Nazi Germany dominating Europe, so I might as well have this thread.
 
OOC: Let's say Hitler lost power in the 1930s and Stalin's purges were even more brutal. Isolationists have a stronger hand in the US. Consequently, no re-armament, no lend-lease, no assistance to China. Japan strikes Mongolia and occupies parts of the Russian Far East, and Stalin agrees to hand over Mongolia. Britain is in no position to support its Tibetan protectorate, and Japan installs a puppet as Dalai Lama. Japan strikes Pearl Harbor, but this time Americans are in no mood to confront the Japanese, and the Hawaiian monarchy is restored like in Manchuria. I know this is ASB, but there are so many other threads about Nazi Germany dominating Europe, so I might as well have this thread.

Then this should be moved to the ASB section.
 
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