Japan retains pre-1931 territories: How powerful

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I think it'll come down to how successful the policies to integrate Korea/suppress Korean identity are. If they work, it'll be Japan hunting down insurgents in the Korean mountains. If they don't work, it will be a full on France in Algeria. But I get the feeling that Japan would be pretty damn brutal to hang on to Korea.
Japan Archipelago still needs resources....
 
IIRC, Onkel Willie made a similar TL before, albeit with a militarist Japan that fought on the Allied side in WWII. Economic prosperity and general modernization liberalizes society from the 60s onward, though the government would itself not be reformed until the late 80s-early 90s, and Korea becomes independent about the same time. Japan though manages to keep Formosa, Micronesia, Kuril and the whole of Sakhalin/Karafuto. As of the beginning of the 21st Century, Japan has the world's second largest navy after the USN, the third largest nuclear arsenal after Russia and the USA, and is the fourth largest economy in the world.

You can find it here: A Shift in Alliances.
 
The Japanese Empire may not necessarily have an economy larger than it does now, since post-war trade within the Western world order was what made them rich. But assuming it has the same fanatical military culture its hard power may be disporportionate to its economy, much like Russia today. Much would depend on who the other world powers are and alliance politics, but surely more powerful than Japan in this timeline.
 
Japan Archipelago still needs resources....
The Japanese Empire may not necessarily have an economy larger than it does now, since post-war trade within the Western world order was what made them rich. But assuming it has the same fanatical military culture its hard power may be disporportionate to its economy, much like Russia today. Much would depend on who the other world powers are and alliance politics, but surely more powerful than Japan in this timeline.
What richard v say, that is a pretty pausable and even that fucking meme of resoruce, was that line of thinking that lead japan to get struck with nuclear fire in OTL, here they will get resources like anyone else...with trade. Specially with resource rich but capital poor post colonial world
 
Was extra population from the Archipelago and the Korean Peninsula need to go somewhere? KMT warloard controlling Inner Manchuria produces coal, lumber, agriculture including soybeans and Soviet Union Outer Manchuria produced lumber and tin. Northern Sakhalin produced petroleum and some natural gas.

If Japan retains pre-1931 territories, novel technology allows off-shore natural gas exploitation, greenhouse agriculture on the warmer part of Sakhalin, minerals from the Kurils, and fishing and agriculture from Micronesia. The jewels of these places: Taiwan and Korean Peninsula were either part of or per se independent countries. Japan may need to return them.
Taking the anaolgy from the economy of Hokkaido, the combined economies of Micronesian islands (Ms) southern Sakhalin (sS) and Kurils (Ks) are likely to provide natural gas (sS), paper milling (sS), beer brewing (sS), energy and chemicals from paper and brewery biomass, natural gas (sS), minerals (sS Ks), fishing (sS, Ks,), some agriculture (sS, Ms), ecotourism (sS, Ks, Ms). In other words, Japan would have two Hokkaidos than one. Would that make a difference?
The Japanese Empire may not necessarily have an economy larger than it does now, since post-war trade within the Western world order was what made them rich. Much would depend on who the other world powers are and alliance politics, but surely more powerful than Japan in this timeline.
 
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