Points of divergence concerning alternate historical developments within the modern day territory of Japan.

Japan is an island country in northeast Asia, wellknown for its many contributions to international culture, namely ninjas, samurai, karate, and sushi. Besides Japan's current proficiency for everything technological, AH.commers also adore Japan for its awesome history. After being ruled for centuries by petty kings and warlords, the nation unites, invades all of its neighbors, loses, and isolates from the world only to be reawakened another couple of centuries later, where it almost repeats the process. Because of Japans great and influential history, it is featured in many AHs and is constantly studied by AHistorians.

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Discussion about Japan being Hindu

A more diverse Korea and Japan

Challenge: Buff up the Ryukyu Kingdom

Plausibility check: Spain colonizes Japan

WI: Longer Sengoku Period

Challenge: Japan develops a strong gun culture

Miscellaneous feudal era Japan POD ideas

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Plausibility check: Could the Japanese conquer China in the 1600s ?

WI: Tokugawa decides some expansion may be desirable

Non-political developments in a Japan without the Tokugawa shogunate

What if Japan did not abandom firearms manufacturing?

Discussion about Japan being converted to Catholicism

More discussion on a potentially Christianised Japan

Plausibility check: No Sakoku Policy and a Catholic Japan

Discussion on Japan being opened to trade in the 1660s

Challenge: Japan East Indies Company

Discussion on Spain conquering Japan during the colonial era

Discussion about Japan going south instead of attacking Korea

Japan a Great Power of the World by the 1600s ?

An earlier 'Meiji Restoration' equivalent ?

Earlier end to Japan's isolation

Challenge: Civil war in 19th century Japan

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WI: Japan partitioned by European Powers

Pulling a Meiji

A sane Japanese Empire

Challenge: Bring Japan into the American Civil War

Japan purchasing Alaska from Russia

WI Japan opens to Russian trade earlier ?

Plausibility check: 1894 - Japan buys the Philippines

First Sino-Japanese War PODs

Plausibility check: Earliest possible Pacific War between Japan and the US ?

Challenge: Avoid the militarists usurping power (with a POD after 1900)

Russo-Japanese War PODs

Japan acquiring Madagascar pre-WWI

Japan being more involved in WWI

Challenge: Prolong the era of "Taisho Democracy" that occured in the OTL 1920s

WI Japanese militarists do not take over ?

Discussion on Japan staying neutral and staying Imperial run to present day

Japan becoming Communist with a POD between 1900 and 1939 ?

WI: Soviet Invasion of Honshu

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Second Sino-Japanese War PODs

An isolated war between Britain and Japan in the 1940s

Japan not entering WWII

Japan stays neutral in WWII

WI Japan wins the Battle of Khalkhin Gol ?

Plausibility check: Was the USSR actually capable of conquering Japan at the end of WWII ?

Japan chooses not to attack Pearl Harbour. What do Americans do ?

A Soviet-Japanese War in 1939-1941 ?

Japan rebuilding the Kwantung Army

Yamamoto is placed in charge of the attack on Pearl Harbor

Japanese invasion of Hawaii succeeds, but ends in disaster

WI: Japan wins WWII ?

WI Japan had radar at its disposal during WWII ?

Plausibility check: Hideyoki Tojo's Alaskan Alternative

Plausibility check: Japan securing the Sakhalin oil fields in 1939 ?

Terms for Japanese surrender in 1942/43 and its long-term consequences

WI Japan surrenders early (e.g. in 1944) ?

Help with a plausible Japanese WWII victory

WI: No atomic bombs dropped on Japan

Operation Downfall 1945: US invasion of Japan

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Discussion about Japan keeping Taiwan after WWII

Challenge: Japan keeps the Meiji Constitution after WWII

Discussion about Japan getting carved up into occupation zones after WWII

WI: Post-WWII Communist North Japan and capitalist South Japan (with a POD in late WWII)

Japan becoming an industrial or minor superpower with a POD in or after 1946

No economic bubble for Japan after the 1980s

Japan dodges the Bubble

Challenge : A Japanese response that avoids the Lost Decade

The NHK as the sole national broadcaster of Japan for many years

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Discussion on the importance of more original PODs concerning Japan

Popular Culture PODs

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Landlocked Nations, Navies, and Islands ISOT to Waterworld

Western Japan ISOTed to 1616

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