WI: Japan Invades Australia in WW2

There's another bay a little to the South West of Darwin, as a plot for a movie, Property developer moves up there in the 70's and find a group of Japanese Soldiers still "occupying" about 3 square miles of Australian bush having been there since the early 40's.


It seems about a realistic I think.
 
Cook said:
'The White races do not flourish in the tropical climate.'
Actually, I've seen it suggested had Spain colonized the continent instead of the Brits, the population would be around 100 million now.:eek::cool:
 

Robert

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In order for Japan to invade Australia several things would have had to have happened.

1. The Soviet Union would have had to have been beaten by Germany. This would allow the Japanese army to commit the ten divisions needed for as Australian invasion.

2. The U.S. would have had to lose the battles of Midway and the Coral Sea. This means the elimination of the U.S. Carrier force and the fall of Port Moresby.

3. The Fall of the Hawaii Islands. This would completely drive the U.S. on to a defensive West Coast strategy and prevent any aid to Australia.
 

Cook

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Actually, I've seen it suggested had Spain colonized the continent instead of the Brits, the population would be around 100 million now.
You are forgetting that as far as the British were concerned, brown started at Calais and just got darker the further from the English Channel you were. The whites were the 'British' races, and even the Irish were suspect.
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Is this instead of Pearl Harbor? As in, an atl in which America doesn't push Japan to attack and it is the UK that serves as a US analogue in this WWII?

If this is possible, I wonder what the effects would be...

I might include this as part of a scenario concerning a UK vs USSR Cold War.
 

Cook

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Tojo’s statement was directly contradicted by Prince Naruhiko Higashikuni’s memoirs and the records of the debates by the Japanese’ Supreme War Council. (They were used at the trial to contradict Tojo’s statement).
I forgot to mention the other document that destroys the credibility of Tojo’s claim on this matter. That is the ‘Land Disposal Plan in the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere’ produced by the Research Section of the Ministry of War. The Research Section was one of the very few times when the Army and Navy General Staffs, and the Overseas Ministry (the Japanese analogue of the British Foreign and Colonial Office) co-ordinated their plans. It was compiled in December 1941 and envisaged not only Australia as part of the Co-Prosperity Sphere, but also New Zealand, Ceylon, Burma and parts of India as well. It was submitted during Tojo’s trial at the International Military Tribunal Far East (Exhibit 1334).

And then of course there's the fact that they went to the effort of printing occupation currency:
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Cook said:
You are forgetting that as far as the British were concerned, brown started at Calais and just got darker the further from the English Channel you were. The whites were the 'British' races, and even the Irish were suspect.
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I can't speak to that. I merely meant the Spanish attitude to harsh environments such as Oz's seems different, & so they'd be less inclined to cling to the shore.:eek::rolleyes: (Or, at least, that appears to be the argument advanced by whoever it was I saw who said it.:p)
 
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