Comments by "John Walsh" (@johnwalsh4857) on "What if the Japanese Won World War 2?" video.

  1. I think Pakistan would have been crushed by both the USSR, China and India since they dont want a Japanese or American client state in their backyards . I can see, the 1962 border clash between China and Pakistan(instead of India) being a catalyst for war with Soviet supported indian and Chinese invasion of Pakistan and East Pakistan in 1962. Japanese threaten war but are counter threatened by the USSR who threatens to intervene.
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  2. I think the Japanese would have still tried to fight to retain their empire out of pride and ego, the Japanese would long be fighting American, Soviet, Chinese and Indian funded guerilla rebel movements all over their empire. The Japanese would use overwhelming brutal military force to try to crush them but would be unsuccessful and would be a drain to their resources and worse the Japanese would even lose more resources trying to fund their own factions in South America vs. the Americans., I think the most rebellious parts of their empire would be the the Malay and Chinese regions, and Burma. and yes I think the catalyst for the collapse of the Japanese empire would be the rise of the internet in the late 90sand the tsunami which would a horrible Japanese response would start a general uprising in Indonesia, Malaya, Ceylon, Thailand and spreading to the Philippines, Burma, Indochina. and even to the mainland Chinese puppet states. The Japanese would try to suppress even with the use of nuclear and chemical and bio weapons but this will just illicit massive worldwide condemnation further isolating the Japanese(such as it is) and leading to strong tensions with the USA, India and China, NATO(all nuclear armed). Japan withdraws from major parts of its empire but keeps, Hainan, Formosa, Korea and Manchuria and Hawaii and Pacific islands. the Chinese states are subsumed by the Chinese commies and I dont think they would still keep Maoism, in this timeline Mao is deposed in a coup by his head general Lin Biao(in OTL, his coup failed) in the early 70s but go for authoritarian capitalism which massive American economic investments and the Americans see the Japanese as a military bulwark vs. the much reduced but still existing isolationist Japanese empire who the USA still sees as a grave threat. As for the former Japanese colonies and puppet states in the SEA, the Philippines, Indonesia(also including Brunei and all of Borneo, Malaya(also includes Singapore) join into a huge malay state called Maphilindo with a unique three head of state federated ruling system. its nationalistic authoritarian and not democratic with a very anti Japanese slant. Maphilindo, New Guinea(also including Irian Jaya and Timor) would be turned into Australia(which includes New Zealand and Fiji and Samoa) client states. Indochina would encompass, Vietnam , Laos and Cambodia, Burma , Thailand independent states. Ceylon would become an Indian client state, all of them USA and Chinese supported. So after hte fall of the USSR. the USA now main rival is Japan which has now become a isolationist authoritarian state with North Korea levels of control over the non Japanese populations within eht empire but varying degrees of freedom for the ethnic Japanese.
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  3. As for South Am, yah its a player but its quickly crushed by the americans who view Latin America as its protected sphere of influence and would brutally crush anyone who tried to put an influence there esp. the Japanese. who the USA still have a hate on.
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