What would the world be like if Japan didn't lose the war

[ArmandV]

A Japanese submarine surfaced off the coast of Santa Barbara, California and shelled an oil facility. This incident was what the movie 1941 with John Belushi was loosely based on. Some of the timbers of the pier that was shelled was salvaged and is now part of a restaurant called The Timbers. On some of the timbers, you can still see some shrapnel from the attack.

 

[ricecake]

I now recall one cable TV history channel WW 2 documentary on Pacific War mentioned actual landing of Japan's " chemical warfare air ballons " in the state of Oregon or California.

 

[Ewok85]

We should have been scared of the Germans, the V2 rocket was amazing for the time - imagine if they had been able to produce a dirty nuclear warhead and fired it at Britain or America?

 

[cursore]

The European War would have turned out the same - Britain, America and Russia would have taken Berlin and ended the war. Its only Asia that would have felt an impact.

So if Japan didn't loose the war.. means it won over US, therefore no economic help to russians no Anzio, no Normandy.

 

[Ewok85]

So if Japan didn't loose the war.. means it won over US, therefore no economic help to russians no Anzio, no Normandy.

If Japan hadn't lost the war it would mean that they would have held their bubble in the Pacific. Only the US Navy and marines were involved with the Pacific war initially, and later on when Europe fell did the regular army units start seeing action enmasse in the the Pacific theatre.
What did or didn't happen in the Pacific would have little or even no effect on how the war panned out in Europe IMO.

 

[cursore]

If Japan hadn't lost the war it would mean that they would have held their bubble in the Pacific. Only the US Navy and marines were involved with the Pacific war initially, and later on when Europe fell did the regular army units start seeing action enmasse in the the Pacific theatre.
What did or didn't happen in the Pacific would have little or even no effect on how the war panned out in Europe IMO.

Ok you are the expert of war, I still prefer love

 

[Ewok85]

Ok you are the expert of war, I still prefer love

Who says you can't be an expert of both?

 

[caster51]

Quote:Originally Posted by caster51
oops .... Manchukuo was an independent country.
Yeah .... Ooops,PUPPET STATE of foreign meddling precisely.

If so, Cambodia was same by ccp
the fugu plan might have been held.
most cuntory admitted Manchukuo as a modern nation
Heavy industry of Manchukuo was better than japan at that time
tht begining of USA ,australia were same

 

[GodEmperorLeto]

Ok you are the expert of war, I still prefer love

Oh, wait a minute. He knows a ton about THIS SPECIFIC WAR! But I bet I can kick his butt when it comes to Graeco-Roman military science.

Nevertheless, Ewok85, you're definitely pretty knowledgeable. You and a friend of mine should get together sometime and talk about the World War II history. He can identify guns by their sound, and can distinguish between different series of a single tank model. My expertise is all pre-gunpowder, so everything I know about the Second World War is scanty.

 

[cursore]

Something is telling me I got in the wrong discussion... I lived WW II through my mother's memories of a Rome occupied by the Nazis bombarded by Americans. and battled between Fascists and Partisan, but that it is the other side of the globe.. ok i go... shhhh....

PS Leto say hello to duncan idaho

 

[Mars Man]

Ok...so, I will admit that I haven't read the whole thread--please do forgive my laziness--however, I simply cannot help but feel that if Japan had won the war, I wouldn't be sitting here now; in this country-side of a village in Nagano prefecture ...the practical center of Honshu.

ANd who knows, I may have had more hair......hummm....

 

[nhk9]

Well if you insist...

Pretty much all the Chinese/Koreans, and those living in Indochina would be either dead or put into slavery camps/prostitute camps, and/or treated as 3rd-class residents. Similar fate to all foreign POWs.

We would be using katakana for everyday writing, not hiragana

There wouldn't be population decline problems in Imperial Japan

Harakiri would still be a legitimate form of executing those that dissent the 'Emperor'

The world would be like the one in Orwell's 1984, with Soviets, Americans, and Japanese dominating.