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As the titles says, what if Isoroku Yamamoto had lived to the end of the war in the Pacific. What if Operation Vengeance, a secret operation to intercept his bomber transport, had failed?

This is the bare bones background of the operation from Wikipedia:
Operation Vengeance was the name given by the Americans to the military operation to kill Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto on April 18, 1943, during the Solomon Islands campaign in the Pacific Theater of World War II. Isoroku Yamamoto, commander of the Combined Fleet of the Imperial Japanese Navy, was killed on Bougainville Island when his transport bomber aircraft was shot down by U.S. Army fighter aircraft operating from Henderson Field on Guadalcanal.
I doubt the admiral's continued life and involvement in the war would change the outcome, except with how imperial Japan eventually loses. It has been suggested by some posters here, that Yamamoto might later on have backed the dove faction in Japanese politics against the hawks supporting the army.


How might the remainder of the war progress with Yamamoto still alive?
If he survives all other attempts on his life, what might happen to him post war?
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