Let's say Germany decides not to follow the Schlieffenplan and instead attacks Russia. Britain stays neutral (and waits). Is it possible for Germany to get Japan in to the war by offering Japan all its possessions in China(with the exception of small parts of the port of Qingdao) and the Pacific Ocean and in the case of an CP victory also French Indochina?
Japan has only to take a few Russian and France Pacific ports and would gain a good position to further expansion into China and also the Malay Archipelago. (eg. DEI, Thailand, Malay, Borneo --> in two decades later ). And even in the case that Britain enters the war - Japan could still be an alley of the UK and sent war and supply vessels into the Mediterranean Sea without giving back what it gained in Russia and FIO.
(from in German point in the case that the UK enters the war, It make no sense to try to hold German possessions in China nor Papua New Guinea but a capture of Vladivostok might lower Russian moral and the same is true for France)
Japan has only to take a few Russian and France Pacific ports and would gain a good position to further expansion into China and also the Malay Archipelago. (eg. DEI, Thailand, Malay, Borneo --> in two decades later ). And even in the case that Britain enters the war - Japan could still be an alley of the UK and sent war and supply vessels into the Mediterranean Sea without giving back what it gained in Russia and FIO.
(from in German point in the case that the UK enters the war, It make no sense to try to hold German possessions in China nor Papua New Guinea but a capture of Vladivostok might lower Russian moral and the same is true for France)