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What if the Northern Alliance had succeeded against the Imperial faction in Japan during the Boshin war and managed to remain independent? How would this be possible, and what might the effects be?
-Would Imperial Japan still become a major power?
-What might become of the remaining Shogunate state in the North? Would it last?
-What will foreign relations be towards the two Japans?
-Would either state attempt to absorb the other at any point in time?