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I feel that while Imperial Japan is less focused on than Nazi Germany, I feel the biggest elephant in the room is that the Second Sino-Japanese War, which indeed was the very lynchpin of lead up to the Pacific War, and what Japanese objectives are still ignored. The general assumption still seems to be the Japanese actions in the Pacific are basically to facilitate out and out conquest, when all their actions not in China were done to either cut off Chinese supplies, or once war became inevitable secure fuel to continue their war in China. And even with the Second Sino-Japanese War itself there is no real telling what Japanese war aims could have been, since it was caused by an escalation similar to the Mukden Incident.
Didn't ruth from AH.com make a timeline complete with wikiboxes from this scenario?Another factor is that Imperial Japan just wasn't that weird. Nazi Germany was a state with an insane vision for the world, Japan (at least in the popular western imagination) was just a bog standard "you have stuff we want, so we'll take it" dictatorship. Plus, well, China ended up as a US-hostile (at least for the early cold war) dictatorship anyway, so there's less interest in exploring the Japanese victory scenario.
Still, might be interesting to have a Ye Olde Axis Victory scenario where Germany falls over from partisan activity, no more economies to loot, and generally being insane and Japan becomes the dominant power of the world.