How much worse...much much worse. Hirohito and the adults in the royal family get the drop. Pretty much all commanders in areas where POWs/civilians were killed, the drop. Any accommodations with existing Japanese society, forget it. Diving on the left side, gone. The weird Japanese house numbering system, gone. Using the Latin alphabet (Romaji) for Japanese, likely (until Ataturk Turkish was written in Arabic characters not Latin ones). English mandatory in school, likely. Occupation lasting longer. Places like Okinawa, Iwo Jima, other islands taken by the USA that had been Japanese (not Imperial possessions like Formosa or Sakhalin) ain't never going to return to Japanese sovereignty like OTL. Japanese history books ain't getting away with the whitewash they give WWII actions by Japan, not now not ever...
Just for grins, I bet the Americans decide to totally obliterate the Yasakuni Shrine and, at Japanese expense, erect a memorial there to the slaughtered POWs and civilians.
There will also be a much stronger hunt for war criminals, think Simon Wiesenthal on steroids. No free passes for guys like Ishii in exchange for information, tell us and get prison, don't tell us and maybe you end up a maruta.
It is worht noting that there were a lot of people in high places who, OTL, would have been glad to see all of the above happen. If the Japanese do the slaughter, they may look like the softies.
Just for grins, I bet the Americans decide to totally obliterate the Yasakuni Shrine and, at Japanese expense, erect a memorial there to the slaughtered POWs and civilians.
There will also be a much stronger hunt for war criminals, think Simon Wiesenthal on steroids. No free passes for guys like Ishii in exchange for information, tell us and get prison, don't tell us and maybe you end up a maruta.
It is worht noting that there were a lot of people in high places who, OTL, would have been glad to see all of the above happen. If the Japanese do the slaughter, they may look like the softies.
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