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I've been going about this over and over again in my head when I think about alternate history. We all know the story from history class. After Japan won World War I as a member of the Allies, they immediately got shafted by the Allies and their country was not economically strong, although it was strong in the area of the military, which would take over the government and plunge the country into a brutal war.

My question is: would this have still happened had the Central Powers won World War I in 1914? Japan being defeated that early in the 20th Century by a European power could've laid the groundwork for a militaristic government to take power after the war.

What do you think? Was the rise of Japan's militaristic government inevitable, regardless of who won World War I?
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