Timelines with a Victorious Japan?

There are of course many timelines where Germany wins, but are there are any where Japan wins? For instance, a timeline with an isolationist US, a seizure of British colonies, etc?
 
The main issue is that the problems facing Japan are of a FAR higher magnitude. The IJA and IJN could simply not allow a threat of a potential belligerant who they had viewed as an advisary since about 1919 onwards to sit in the Phillipines building military bases etc there abreast their lines of communication and supply, thats what the Phillipines were. The IJA/IJN had basically spent the interwar period preparing to fight the US. But they have NO way of winning against the US. They are at the VERY short end of the logistics, manpower and manufacturing stick when compared to the US and save the US getting a massive case of the retard, they'd not throw in the towel after possibly loosing 'the decisive battle' as the Japanese kept thinking they would right up until 1945.

Because of the MASSIVE disparity in forces, capability and outright thinking and strategy, its REALLY hard to get a plausable Japan vs US and the Japanese win. It would literally require them to have Goku AND Godzilla.
 
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I get what you're saying, but it seems like there are ways around this, like someone other than FDR in 1932 who is generally isolationist.
 
I get what you're saying, but it seems like there are ways around this, like someone other than FDR in 1932 who is generally isolationist.

Even then they would still get drawn into a war. Japan NEEDED to secure the Far East, not Russia, not Siberia, because there was no resources there that were easily extractable, even by todays standards its a horror story to do so. So they have to get the DEI and Thailand, Burma etc. And then you've got a massive military presence of someone who you see as your enemy sitting on your main supply line from your newly won territories.

They WOULD attack the Phillipines. Its just military common sense.
 
So far the only timeline on this site I've found with a plausible Japanese victory is Three Fish by wiking. It's an Axis victory timeline. Japan never goes to war with the United States; they work out a deal with Germany to acquire oil and rubber from the Dutch East Indies (which is effectively under German control because the Netherlands is a Nazi puppet state), allowing them to get around the U.S. oil embargo. The U.S. and Britain increase their support for the nationalists in China, and the Flying Tigers still get sent to China to fight the Japanese, but Japan eventually "wins" in China, albeit they will have difficulty running the place. Meanwhile Japan invades the Soviet Union in late 1941 and manages to conquer some parts of Siberia and the Soviet Far East.
 
As others opine I do not see a compelling path for Japan to emerge a victor without a German victory in Europe, and that seems ground oft-time trod. From my reading the USA might not have gone to war over the Philippines so even under FDR it is possible to have Japan going to war short of what we know occurred so long as there is no strong desire to have cause to become involved in European affairs piggybacked off Japanese aggression. But then you likely need a different Europe that puts both Britain and France in a stronger place to deter Japan widening the war. I assume one still has a belligerent Italy and Germany is a viable enemy to both France and Britain.

However, in altering the situation in Europe one might find a path for Japan to gain more ground, obviously avoiding a war with the USA who supplied the bulk of its oil, steel and many other critical trade items. In my wanderings over this ground I see a Weimar Germany and China pulling closer against Japan as well as holding to at least neutrality with the USSR also poised as a threat to Japan. Without the fall of France I think the consensus is Japan never invades Indochina or attacks the British possessions. The real prize is the DEI but if Japan is never embargoed does it truly require Dutch oil? I think Japan could pick off the French, but that gets them principally rice and rubber from Indochina, and I am not convinced it is worth the risks. The other sticking point is Hong Kong if the British allow supplies to move to China. But if Japan is reasonably confident they can buy from the USA, and assume the USA is not likely to use the Philippines to cut them off by sea, then they might feel compelled to take on either cutting the route through Indochina and/or Burma, that gets a war with Britain and France. Depending on how one apprises the outcome of this more limited war, with France and Britain not entirely free to strip Europe of the Mediterranean bare, that seems at least a road to a more victorious Japan in Asia. I am still toying with this so I admit the ideas are very rough indeed.
 
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