Japanese Troops on the Western Front

Japan was asked by Britain to send troops to Europe to help push back the Germans in World War I. They refused. They fought for their Asian interests only.

What if they did send troops to fight in France? Would American troops still be needed?

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Yes definately.

Wouldnt make much of a differenceto be honest,might be a better world with no Japanese invasion of Russia in the Civil War better cultural intergration and probably no Euro-Asian Axis in WW2
 
Only reason I could see Japan doing this is if they were explicitly promised something such as a colony in return.
 
Would American troops still be needed?
Needed in what sense? In OTL, the yanks didn't make all that much of a contribution on the battlefield but the threat of a large number of fresh troops at the stage when the German army was thoroughly exhausted was considrable... which probably did play a major role in provoking the Kaiserschlact (I've probably got the spelling wrong) of early 1918 and later the peace.

Of cause, in hindsight having the war last into 1919 and the allies advance into Germany proper may have been better (reduced 'stab in the back' stuff and so reduced chances of Nazis seizing power?).
no korean war, because the entire pennisula will be fully communist.
This isn't a n00b WI.

Butterflies alone will be enough to dramatically change any WW2 that results... add in the Japanese officers and their British and French counterparts; the general reduction in militarism experianced by the allies after the heavy losses suffered in the trenches; etc. and there is a fair chance that the growth of militarism in Japan is delayed or possibly eliminated... thus, no/later Pacific campaign in WW2, thus Japan is not crushed, thus Korea remains a Japanese colony/puppet.
 
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