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I am working on a TL of my own that I have been thinking about off and on for quite awhile now. A key part of it involves the saving the Anglo-Japanese Alliance and keeping it intact for WWII. Please help me with your answers to any or all of the following questions:

1) How can the Anglo-Japanese Alliance be saved in 1921? (I know it officially terminated in 1923)
2) Does saving the Alliance make the Washington Naval Treaty and the Nine-Power Treaty untenable?
3) If the Washington Naval Treaty does not happen, does the naval arms race heat up? What happens to the battleship vs. aircraft carrier ideas in the TL?
4) If the Nine-Power Treaty does not happen, what ramifications?
5) On the assumption that the Anglo-Japanese Alliance does persevere, any other observations, suggestions, questions, etc. that the AH.com community would like to put forth.

I have many of my own answers to all of these questions and if we get a good discussion going I will share them all. But I would like to hear your ideas untainted by my own first.

Thank you in advance for all your help.

PS. I already know that some (or many) on this site will say that this premise is ridiculous, impossible or generally worthless. If this is your opinion, I completely understand. But this is the PoD that I have chosen.
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