Hitler made his mind on partitioning Poland with Stalin earlier, so no German recognition of Manchukuo, Germany got more cordial with USSR and China, while antagonizing Japan.
Winter War happened before invasion of Poland, and Finland did worse than historically, so Stalin was viewed as an aggressor earlier.
Nanjing was evacuated during the battle of Shanghai, and when IJA entered the city it's largely empty, with a considerable portion of Japanese sympathizers and boot lickers among those who remain. Perhaps the Japanese soldiers took the piss out of the government buildings Cockburn-style instead.
Either Fall Weiß happened earlier or delay the escalation of Khalkhin Gol in order to have the USSR battling Japan as the Red Army was rolling into Poland. This way the Allies and Japan became friends of circumstances. Perhaps the Allies could agree to turn a blind eye on Japanese invasion of China as long as Japan open a second front against the Communazis and respect foreign interests in China.
Political system side, I hate to say this but Japan appears to have been less repressive than China. Political violence in China was pretty similar to Germany and USSR where the state hunted down oppositions, but in Japan it's more like oppositions killing government officials whose policy they didn't like. Democracy wise, Japan was leagues ahead. While an MP could be removed due to his speech, Saitô Takao made an epic comeback in 1942(!) after being kicked out of the Diet in 1940 even as his dogpilers became the IRAA, and there was a constituency where a defeated opposition filed a lawsuit regarding the legality of the election as he was harassed by soldiers during his campaign. The supreme court actually launched an lengthy investigation and finally declared the results invalid in early 1945(!) and held an reelection which sadly didn't fully close the gap. So it's not really as morally intolerable as many would make it sounds like.
Winter War happened before invasion of Poland, and Finland did worse than historically, so Stalin was viewed as an aggressor earlier.
Nanjing was evacuated during the battle of Shanghai, and when IJA entered the city it's largely empty, with a considerable portion of Japanese sympathizers and boot lickers among those who remain. Perhaps the Japanese soldiers took the piss out of the government buildings Cockburn-style instead.
Either Fall Weiß happened earlier or delay the escalation of Khalkhin Gol in order to have the USSR battling Japan as the Red Army was rolling into Poland. This way the Allies and Japan became friends of circumstances. Perhaps the Allies could agree to turn a blind eye on Japanese invasion of China as long as Japan open a second front against the Communazis and respect foreign interests in China.
Political system side, I hate to say this but Japan appears to have been less repressive than China. Political violence in China was pretty similar to Germany and USSR where the state hunted down oppositions, but in Japan it's more like oppositions killing government officials whose policy they didn't like. Democracy wise, Japan was leagues ahead. While an MP could be removed due to his speech, Saitô Takao made an epic comeback in 1942(!) after being kicked out of the Diet in 1940 even as his dogpilers became the IRAA, and there was a constituency where a defeated opposition filed a lawsuit regarding the legality of the election as he was harassed by soldiers during his campaign. The supreme court actually launched an lengthy investigation and finally declared the results invalid in early 1945(!) and held an reelection which sadly didn't fully close the gap. So it's not really as morally intolerable as many would make it sounds like.