Just saw a TV show about Australian ants that can kill ya. Friggin ANTS.
To be in this forum, a WI must be plausible, and Japan taking Australia just isn't.Good grief Charlie Brown, all this person wants is "what would happen IF the Japanese did take Australia" and everyone wants to talk about "how it's not possible". Just answer the god-damn question or don't answer at all.
To be in this forum, a WI must be plausible, and Japan taking Australia just isn't.
For what its worth I agree with you.Good grief Charlie Brown, all this person wants is "what would happen IF the Japanese did take Australia" and everyone wants to talk about "how it's not possible". Just answer the god-damn question or don't answer at all..
I read the Wikipaedia article and thought it was very interesting.So, maybe this will help. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_East_Asia_Co-Prosperity_Sphere#The_Land_Disposal_Plan there's a section on Australia and colonization plan (obviously very preliminary) and a map of the agreement between Germany and Japan on dividing the world along the 70 degree East longitude. I don't know if Germany would actually receive southern Australia, perhaps German (and other Aryan) Australians would be allowed limited self-rule and left alone as far as "death camps" and such. But we know at the end of the day Germany and Japan will turn on each other as surely as Stalin and Hitler knew their day would come.
Fewer natives, but the natives would be more resistant, and in many cases, better armed too.
On the other hand Australia was half way across the Pacific, with the U.S. on its flank, that would make it very vulnerable to isolation, as well as making shipping costs higher. Whereas China was right next door, and nearly as importantly, already had a Japanese army in place.The reasons for invading Australia are:
1) Defeat one of your enemies;
2) Deprive the Americans of a base they can use to attack the East Indies from;
3) Exploit Australia's economic resources: raw materials for Japanese industry; food and clothing for the Japanese people.
No 3 would be the most important because any scenario where the Japanese can actually mount a full-scale invasion is one where they have a much bigger economy and they would need all the raw materials they could get to feed their factories.
I read the Wikipaedia article and thought it was very interesting.
I think the Japanese would send even more of their own people to Australia in a timeline where they were able to invade and occupy the country. They would want somewhere to settle the overspill of their larger population. Australia might be thought better than Korea or mainland China as there were fewer unfriendly natives to deal with.
Good grief Charlie Brown, all this person wants is "what would happen IF the Japanese did take Australia" and everyone wants to talk about "how it's not possible". Just answer the god-damn question or don't answer at all.
Hey, guys.
Disregarding how it came to be, what would live be like for Australians under Japanese occupation? I have read a while ago, that enslavement and extermination was planned for both Australia and New Zealand, but also, that Germany wanted South Australia and Tasmania to be left for German-Australians.
What would life be like in SA and TAS? Would Germany appoint a German leader to send to Govern these areas, or would a local be incharge?
Again, I don't want answers like, "ASB, they wouldn't invade". We're by passing how they invaded, and we're looking at occupied Australia.
Cheers, Fat. (Also, please don't take offence to my name)
On the other hand Australia was half way across the Pacific, with the U.S. on its flank, that would make it very vulnerable to isolation, as well as making shipping costs higher. Whereas China was right next door, and nearly as importantly, already had a Japanese army in place.
The Australians much like New Zealand ate a very different diet frorm the Japanese, and much of Australia was very barren, not exactly suited for growing rice, or even the sort of rice Japanese actually liked. Whereas China................ and they had a population which was skilled in growing rice.
Australia's economy was based largely on sheep dairy and wheat. Contrary to what you may have heard the Japanese did not eat a lot of mutton Cheese and butter.
As for raw materials, with the exception of Coal and Zinc Australia largely didn't produce any.
So to answer Napoleonrules, the reason I didn't answer the original question. is because I think what would happen if the Japanese conquered Australia, is that they would eventually wake up, realise it had been a silly waste of time, and bugger off back to the Japanese Empire.
Hey, guys.
Disregarding how it came to be, what would live be like for Australians under Japanese occupation? I have read a while ago, that enslavement and extermination was planned for both Australia and New Zealand, but also, that Germany wanted South Australia and Tasmania to be left for German-Australians.
What would life be like in SA and TAS? Would Germany appoint a German leader to send to Govern these areas, or would a local be incharge?
Again, I don't want answers like, "ASB, they wouldn't invade". We're by passing how they invaded, and we're looking at occupied Australia.
Cheers, Fat. (Also, please don't take offence to my name)
So if a lodgement occurred the massing Australian and US forces wouldn't really allow an occupation routine to develop. That drives both Japanese behaviour as well as the locals, the Japanese are probably very brutal and the locals fight back knowing that the military is on the way a bit like the risings in Occupied Europe as the WAllied invasion loomed.
Good grief Charlie Brown, all this person wants is "what would happen IF the Japanese did take Australia" and everyone wants to talk about "how it's not possible". Just answer the god-damn question or don't answer at all.
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