I just don't think the Japanese will be able to outnumber whites in less than maybe a half-century, especially when a winning Japan will likely have other, more appealing places for settlers.Well, the majority of Australians lived in the big cities, and while yes, year-long Guerilla warfare would happen, with the influx of Asian immigrants to Australia, soon the Australian population would be bred out with Asians. Soon Guerilla fighters will be going further, and further inland away from Japanese authority.
Do we have evidence that the Japanese planned to make Australia into a settler colony in the first place? I imagine any plausible Japanese Empire peace deal doesn't include the annexation of Australia, as they couldn't even invade it.In my opinion, the Aboriginals will have very little change in their lives. Maybe treated slightly better, but considering how bad it was even slightly better doesn't mean good.
I don't understand how the Japanese would hold Australia. Conquering it is near-impossible, but holding it sounds even harder. I can't imagine 8 million white Australians will just how down to Japanese rule. I'd expect a long, hard guerilla conflict to expel the Japanese that simply would make the occupation force question why they were holding such a relatively useless territory at such high cost.
As for the Japanese using the aboriginals as a collaborator class, I simply don't think they were well enough educated or numerous to be an effective controlling force.
Given the way the Imperial Japanese treated other non-Yamato race peoples...it is probably worse in some ways and maybe better in others. I know the Aussies did not treat the Aboriginal people even half decently, but I'm not sure where on the spectrum Australia circa 1940 is compared to the Japanese.
With out wishing to trivialise what DID actually happen, which was terrible, I wish people would get over this particular fantasy.Australian Aborigines were considered fauna by the Australian government, just to give you an idea.
look up the Aniu in Japan
With out wishing to trivialise what DID actually happen, which was terrible, I wish people would get over this particular fantasy.
Well, the majority of Australians lived in the big cities, and while yes, year-long Guerilla warfare would happen, with the influx of Asian immigrants to Australia, soon the Australian population would be bred out with Asians. Soon Guerilla fighters will be going further, and further inland away from Japanese authority.
What fantasy?
"Year-long", try "decades long", funded by the CIA. And what Asians, the same Asians also being oppressed by the Japanese? Because there's not enough ethnic Japanese to make up even a majority.
Given the way the Imperial Japanese treated other non-Yamato race peoples...it is probably worse in some ways and maybe better in others. I know the Aussies did not treat the Aboriginal people even half decently, but I'm not sure where on the spectrum Australia circa 1940 is compared to the Japanese.
Given how under-utilised the Australian continent was in the 1940's it is entirely plausible that a Japan that occupied Australia would bring in large amounts of slave or near slave labour in order to exploit it. Outnumbering whites would take a little while, but without the migration of the post-war era it would be quite possible.
It was underutilized then and is still under utilized for good reasons. Even with slave labor it is still probably not worth the effort for what you would get out of it. What does it offer Japan that somewhere like Korea doesn't?