Increased Japanese participation during WWI

4) Russian Far East. The Tsar would be deposed, IMO.

Would this be possible shortly after the Russian Revolution and before the German Spring Offensive, when the Tsar was already out of the picture, the Germans transferring units to the West from the East and the Allies willing to take the extra-troops?
 
MUC, not really. The Anglo-French goal was to get Russia back in the war, not ruin all hopes of such a development by offering Russian soil to Japan.
 
As I recall the Japanese destroyers in the Med were built by the Japanese and sold to the French to make up for a shortage in in production in France. They were sometimes known as the 'Japanois' class if my memory serves me correctly. from what I remember of the story there was a certain level of diplomacy in putting the deal together. If you can get a hold of a copy of Janes or something along that line it will have a reference to them.​
There are two different groups of ships. Japan built a class of destroyers for France http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabe_class_destroyer and also sent a force to the Mediterranean http://digitalcommons.liberty.edu/c...9BjoFxxXA&cad=rja#search="sakaki 1917 saxton"
or http://works.bepress.com/tim_saxon/6/.
 
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