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A lot of people have tried to figure out how Japan could do better in WW2. Of course here was no way they could ever win a long war against the US alone let alone everyone else.
So I figured I would wile some time away with my own futile musing.
Japan takes the chance and in late 1941 does NOT attack Pearl Harbor but instead only Singapore and DEI. Gets the oil they desperately need and the other raw materials- mostly- that they need. Leave the Phillipines alone. Say this is all they want and that is it and propose a peace treaty to England. Make nice otherwise.
Big risk but considering what happened OTL why not?
Now they get ambitious and then in Mid 1942 attack Pearl Harbor and instead of a hit and run TAKE Hawaii in an amphibious assault.
That if successful would allow them at their leisure to take out the Phillipines and everything else down the road when they feel like it. Without Hawaii the US is in a world of hurt doing anything for quite a while.
Now of course the question is by say May 1942 could the Japanese have pulled this off?
Not likely. But hey at least its different then what happened originally.