What if:German submarine U-234 arrives in Japan

The Nakajima Kikka first flew on Aug 7, 1945. It was a twin-jet fighter-bomber. The Mitsubishi J8M rocket intercepter first flew on July 7, 1945, and crashed.
 
Why would they invade? They'll just keep dropping bombs and blockading Japan until they either surrender or there's nothing left.

The US was afraid that the Japanese population would be killed off to a sustainable level for the home islands and that Japan would be able to exist as a political entity without surrendering at all, hence that an invasion was needed.
 
The US was afraid that the Japanese population would be killed off to a sustainable level for the home islands and that Japan would be able to exist as a political entity without surrendering at all, hence that an invasion was needed.

Sources?

I've got a lesser TL* featuring the population of the Home Islands crashing to the point Japan ends up being annexed to the United States.

I think I could learn from this.

*I.e. not the Afrikanerverse
 
I think they did. They still have around 6 months to make some and if they have a couple of hundred by the time the home islands are invaded, it would make stuff interesting.

Untrue. Japan's industry had been utterly annihilated by American firebombing. Further, the American's submarine and raiding campaigns againt Japanese shipping had reduced the amount of resources flowing into the Home Islands to a trickle from Manchuria; barely enough to maintain enough ammunition to resist an invasion, much less begin mass production of advanced aircraft designs.

The Soviet Yak-9 could also fight and win against German jet aircraft, and the Allies were already deploying several jet fighters which were more advanced than German designs.
 
As noted above, Japan's industry had been firebombed into oblivion and the nation had been cut off from overseas trade. To exacerbate it all further, whatever of its skilled workforce that wasn't dead had been conscripted into the army. The best this submarine could give the Japanese would be a morale boost... and that won't change the fact that the Americans and Russians are coming.

EDIT: And I just necroed a dead thread...
 
As noted above, Japan's industry had been firebombed into oblivion and the nation had been cut off from overseas trade. To exacerbate it all further, whatever of its skilled workforce that wasn't dead had been conscripted into the army. The best this submarine could give the Japanese would be a morale boost... and that won't change the fact that the Americans and Russians are coming.

EDIT: And I just necroed a dead thread...
It is less than a week so I think you just bumped it, no worries
 
A grand total of four of them. "Three crated Messershmitt Me-262 jet fighters and an ME-163 rocket-propelled fighter", remember. It's not like Japan had the industry or the time left to build any more.

I don't know why, but I'm reminded of the episode of Dungeons and Dragons where Venger planned to send a German pilot back to his own time with an up to date 1980's jet fighter instead of his Stuka.

Problem was the pilot stated he was from '1945', so I always thought Venger was a bonehead. What could Germany do with one jet fighter by 1/1/1945 (at the earliest) to avoid losing the war.
 
A grand total of four of them. "Three crated Messershmitt Me-262 jet fighters and an ME-163 rocket-propelled fighter", remember. It's not like Japan had the industry or the time left to build any more.

I think Japan Would be betters served if they just forget about the Jet fighters and Tiger tanks and just ask for Blueprints for the panzerfausts and panzerschreks and Germany might even be able to deliver that without risking a sub voyage...(Diplo puoch to Japanese embassy in Turkey..Japanese embassy in Turkey to Japanese embassy in Moscow to tokyo)
 
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