hey, all.
recently, i've been developing some ideas for how Japan develops in my ASB ATL. these are still very early-development, but i wanted to get some peer review on the basic concepts so far. the gist of it is that, even considering other PODs, (the whole point of the TL is to make an interesting world, not to be 100% plausible) Imperial Japan still becomes a thing and tries to establish the Co-Prosperity Sphere. a major difference, though, is that there's no Axis for them to join and they're basically doing it on their own. without getting into too terribly much detail, it involves them reaching the Indian Ocean and maybe even expanding the Co-Prosperity Sphere into that larger region, possibly unifying with Ethiopia, (which was actually attempted, as some of you may know, but basically ended when Japan chose to side with also-Axis Italy over Ethiopia) and maybe even reaching far enough to get at the Suez Canal
hopefully without getting bogged down with those details--again, since this is still pretty early in development--does anyone think that Imperial Japanese ambitions might inevitably cause a world war? i'd long been designing TTL with a few basic premises, one being that the World Wars don't take place, but i'm starting to think that Japan may well force the issue (for the record, i'm well aware that there are plenty of other conflicts that could qualify as world wars, including in much earlier centuries). thoughts?
recently, i've been developing some ideas for how Japan develops in my ASB ATL. these are still very early-development, but i wanted to get some peer review on the basic concepts so far. the gist of it is that, even considering other PODs, (the whole point of the TL is to make an interesting world, not to be 100% plausible) Imperial Japan still becomes a thing and tries to establish the Co-Prosperity Sphere. a major difference, though, is that there's no Axis for them to join and they're basically doing it on their own. without getting into too terribly much detail, it involves them reaching the Indian Ocean and maybe even expanding the Co-Prosperity Sphere into that larger region, possibly unifying with Ethiopia, (which was actually attempted, as some of you may know, but basically ended when Japan chose to side with also-Axis Italy over Ethiopia) and maybe even reaching far enough to get at the Suez Canal
hopefully without getting bogged down with those details--again, since this is still pretty early in development--does anyone think that Imperial Japanese ambitions might inevitably cause a world war? i'd long been designing TTL with a few basic premises, one being that the World Wars don't take place, but i'm starting to think that Japan may well force the issue (for the record, i'm well aware that there are plenty of other conflicts that could qualify as world wars, including in much earlier centuries). thoughts?