Comments by "John Walsh" (@johnwalsh4857) on "Knowledgia"
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well my take on it is that a Allied(mainly USA and USSR but with small contributions from the British and French) invade and conquer the Japanese home islands by like 1947. The Soviets would have conquered all of the Sakhalin, Kuriles and Hokkaido islands while the USA would take all of Honshu, Kyushu and Shikoku. Not surprised the campaign would have been extremely brutal for all sides as the Japanese would fight to the death and both sides would be using chemical weapons, and the US would be using multiple atomic weapons. The Soviets would have deported all the surviving Japanese civilians in their conquered areas as they did in OTL to the USA zone of control. and repopulate these areas with Russians, in fact Hokkaido main northern Japanese island was sparsely populated at the time of invasion of its population would have been drastically reduced. The USA would have been responsible for literally all the rebuilding of its controlled Japanese territories and would have executed a bit more Japanese war criminals than in OTL. Since many Japanese gov officials were probably killed during the invasion or executed later, the post war Japanese gov would have made up mostly of USA and Soviet military and civlian personel. The Soviets annex its conquered Japanese areas in the USSR . the USA would designate its occupied areas of Japan as administered territories which is a nice term for colony, essentially USA controlled areas of Japan becomes a USA colony. and would not be given independence due to the hundreds of thousands of American casualties just taking Japan. I can see the USA immigrating hundreds of thousands of Americans from the mainland to Japan. as Japan rebuilds. and settling down so Japan by the 70s has a sizable American minority. the Japanese population post war is reduced from its pre war levels by around 50 percent noting millions of Japanese died during the conquest of Japan 1945 to 1948, and probably a million or so more in the brutal pacification campaigns of the late 40s and 50s. (note Emperor dies during the invasion of Japan). USA occupied Japan gets completely Americanized. so by 2000 Japan(Okinawa, Kyushu Honshu and Shikoku) becomes the 51st state of the USA. where English is the main language spoken followed by Japanese. Japan is one of the richest states in the USA and rivals the GDP of the states of Texas and California.
Meanwhile the invasion of Japan by the Allies has a major effect on the rest of Asia, KMT and CCP start fighitng each other in a major way starting 1946 , even with the Japanese still controlling eastern China. without USA aid(as the USA is focused on the invasion and conquest of Japan), the CCP defeats the KMT by 1949. as in OTL what replaces USA aid however is the hundreds of thousands of Japanese troops in Eastern China and Formosa whose Japanese military govs surrender to the Allies in 1947 however many Japanese troops join the KMT to fight the CCP. Chiang and the KMT remnants flee to Formosa now being called Taiwan. All of Korea is overrun by the Soviets by 1946. and the new Korean country is headed by Soviet puppet Kim Il Sung.
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