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as yet another part of the timeline im working on, japan remains a monarchy and begins to expand starting at around the same time it did OTL (im pretty sure thats in 1931 with the conquest of manchuria) and--in teh current version--stays that way through to 2032. there's no WW2 in this timeline, so japan would presumably continue expanding outward into the pacific and continental asia (but i was planning to keep it so that china still holds the greater part of the continent; maybe japan would just be limited to the korean peninsula). but what's the maximum extent of islands and other regions that japan could conquer and annex into their proper empire? australia and new zealand should still remain british or independent, and hawaii still remain american, but what else? could they perhaps expand to and annex parts of indonesia and even get to the indian ocean? or would they eventually try conquering hawaii and parts of the americas anyway? what would teh reactions of other powers in teh area be?
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