The PRC's failed attempt at "reclaiming" the Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands from Japan is seen as the first domino to Japan's emergence as a military and economic superpower, with the world's second largest economy and third in overall military strength, as well as establishing a successor to the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere.
What if the Chinese invasion of the Islands never occured in the first place?
What if the Chinese invasion of the Islands never occured in the first place?