Your challenge, should you choose to accept it, is stop Japan from taking the empire it has in the Pacific today. Earliest POD allowed is after Meiji's death.
Is a Japanese Empire inevitable?
Is a Japanese Empire inevitable?
Your challenge, should you choose to accept it, is stop Japan from taking the empire it has in the Pacific today. Earliest POD allowed is after Meiji's death.
Is a Japanese Empire inevitable?
I wish the history books weren't so clogged with propaganda so I could know exactly how that happened.
Another way have america and Japan go to war during the second world war. We came very close to war over several incidents before the cold war with the soviets pushed us to make nice with each other.
The odd thing was that such tensions and the now forgotten US – Japanese naval race actual saved Japan from the danger of becoming embroiled in Germany's war with the USSR. The Imperial Navy continually demanded and received such a huge fraction of the Empire's steel production that the Army never had enough tanks and artillery to contemplate war with the Soviets. The Yamato class battleships and the Taiho class carriers like their more numerous American contemporaries the Iowa and Essex classes never saw action. However, they played their part in preventing either nation from joining the European war..... Another way have america and Japan go to war during the second world war. We came very close to war over several incidents.....
Finally, may I mention another possible way for the Empire to have fallen. Had Halifax's Government not decided to continue the war with Germany in 1940, Germany might have defeated the USSR in 1941-2 which would have brought Germany a long way towards Vladivostok. We now know of Hitler's plans for World conquest from his so called “Second Book”. Surely Germany would have demanded at least the return of the Netherlands East Indies and its former Pacific territories and how could Japan have resisted? Again Japan's luck ensured that the European War would continue until Hitler's assassination allowed a peace of mutual exhaustion.
May I post again to illustrate more ways by which Japan's Empire might have been destroyed. For example, if Britain and France had emerged triumphant from their 1939-40 clash with Germany, they might have intervened in Asia to stop Japan's advance south.