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In the "No Spanish American War" thread, there was talk of the Japanese invading the Philippines if they were still held by Spain in 1905. It got me thinking--rather than an attack on Russia, what if Japan went to war with the United States over the Philippines in 1905? The USA had a precarious hold on the islands(constant guerrilla warfare) and didn't have a large fleet to defend the islands with. Then again, I don't know how much Japan had. So would it be possible, rather than a Russo-Japanese War, to get a Japanese-American War in 1905? What about a few years after 1905--if Japan decides they want both gains in Russia and the Pacific!(I don't know that much about Japanese militarism, so if this is ASB, yell at me angrily).
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