I think they could have gotten their request to be considered racially equal to the Europeans if there had been a more progressive president and congress.
Keeping the captured German leasehold on Qingdao.
If the Japanese had “earned” it through combat early in the war, Japan might have been able to add the phospate rich island of Nauru, and the Bismarck archipelago, to its central pacific mandate.
Of course if the Beijing or Canton governments are dumb enough to declare war on the Entente, Japan can get more, at Chinese expense, like a League of Nations mandate over Manchuria, maybe even Mongolia.
I do not see the racial equality clause passing, even if it was just about equality of the Japanese as suggested above.
The US, and even more the Dominions, saw that as a wedge Japan would try to use against immigration restriction policies those countries were becoming enamored of.
Keeping the captured German leasehold on Qingdao.
If the Japanese had “earned” it through combat early in the war, Japan might have been able to add the phospate rich island of Nauru, and the Bismarck archipelago, to its central pacific mandate.
Of course if the Beijing or Canton governments are dumb enough to declare war on the Entente, Japan can get more, at Chinese expense, like a League of Nations mandate over Manchuria, maybe even Mongolia.
I do not see the racial equality clause passing, even if it was just about equality of the Japanese as suggested above.
The US, and even more the Dominions, saw that as a wedge Japan would try to use against immigration restriction policies those countries were becoming enamored of.