Japan loses Sino-Japanese War

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What would happen to Japan if a stronger KMT pushes them out of China, Manchuria, and Korea? Japan almost certainly will not attack the European colonies in 1941, I'm more interested in what would happen to Japan domestically.
 
I honestly don't see, without a much earlier PoD, the KMT pushing Japan out of Korea, out of China, perhaps, but Korea was an integral
part of the Empire and as such would be able to be defended against the inferior (in terms of equipment and training) KMT.

Now, that all said if they do lose expect heads to roll, figuratively and literally for those who were in charge of the operations and such.


All in all, without having to worry about China I think Japan would go one of two ways;

1. Going 'neutral' and basically favouring whoever's winning during the course of WW2, being able to trade openly without the problems
(IE the American embargo) that occupying China caused.
2. Still join the Axis and go after European colonies, particularly Indonesia with even more zeal since they've lost the resources they were
getting from China.
 
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I honestly don't see, without a much earlier PoD, the KMT pushing Japan out of Korea, out of China, perhaps, but Korea was an integral part of the Empire and as such would be able to be defended against the inferior (in terms of equipment and training) KMT.

Now, that all said if they do lose expect heads to roll, figuratively and literally for those who were in charge of the operations and such.


All in all, without having to worry about China I think Japan would go one of two ways;

1. Going 'neutral' and basically favouring whoever's winning during the course of WW2, being able to trade openly without the problems China caused.
2. Still join the Axis and go after European colonies, particularly Indonesia with even more zeal since they've lost the resources they were getting from China.

The POD can go back to anytime after WWI. What happens to the military-industrial complex which ruled Japan since 1936?
 
The POD can go back to anytime after WWI. What happens to the military-industrial complex which ruled Japan since 1936?

Well I would'nt really say that Japan was ruled by such, really the other way around, but anyways Japan's military industry would likely become export based.
 

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Japan was a defacto military dictatorship after the 2-26 incident

The army demonstrated that it had near autonomous power to set policy for Japan in 1931, the decision to invade of Manchuria and later China in 1937 was made directly between the Zaibatsu and the military.

The Emperor, really the only real effective resistance to the army and the Zaibatsu, was cowed in the aftermath of 2-26, the war minister held all the power, and the government had limited power to effect that post. The elected government and the bureacracy was rendered toothless. The combined power of Zaibatsu, the army, and later the navy domininated Japanese life more and more and culminated in the abolition of political parties in 1940 and total war in the Pacific in 1941.
 
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Japan was a defacto military dictatorship after the 2-26 incident

The army demonstrated that it had near autonomous power to set policy for Japan in 1931, the decision to invade of Manchuria and later China in 1937 was made directly between the Zaibatsu and the military.

Mind you if the KMT/GMD actually managed to push the Japanese out of China proper (let alone Manchuria, forget about Korea), the Military would lose a lot of its power. This might let saner leaders take charge.

Japan NEEDED to go after DEI because the US embargoed their oil. That happened because of the US China lobby. If Japan isn't in CHina, the US sells oil, and Japan can play nice (or go after Russia, if they want, maybe).
 
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