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  • Assumption I: Japan sides with Germany and Austria-Hungary due to some diplomatic circumstances.
  • Assumption II: Japan, along with Germany, loses the war with an earlier intervention from the US.
  • Assumption III: Japan loses Korea, Formosa, Southern Sakhalin and the Ryukyus. (plausibility zero, let's just say this happened)
  • Assumption IV: Japan, along with Germany and Italy, turns ultranationalist and expansionist when the Great Depression hits; WWII also goes similarly as OTL.
  • Assumption V: Japan(the home islands, I guess) experiences similar levels of economic development as of OTL. Same goes for Korea, Manchuria, etc(as independent nations or otherwise).
Under these assumptions, how far can Japan expand? Will they be able to achieve what they did in OTL, almost entirely swallowing East Asia whole? Or will they be stopped short due to the lack of bases in the Pacific and lack of resources from Manchuria?
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