Russia did have the 1905 Revolution too, the Tsardom was seemingly losing its popularity even without WW1.
The Chinese, Koreans, Indochinese or Filipinos could invent them only it would be drastically different and might not have ecchi content if you consider China’s or even the Philippines’ culture.
I wonder how weeb culture in the west would be effected, can't say I know the nuances of those cultures so I'm not sure I'd notice much of a difference.
IIRC operation downfall would have been a massive slaughter but not only on the Japanese side. Through pure luck, the Japanese home defense command had anticipated the possible landing zones perfectly, the US did not have accurate intel on the japanese forces on Kyushu (the japanese regulars already outnumbered the planned US forces, not counting Jap militia) and the Japanese had prepared thousands of kamikaze planes, speedboats and midget subs.
Iirc there aren't a whole lot of places to land troops like that onto Japan, so the Japanese high command concentrated on the viable beach heads.
I believe it wouldn’t be that big. One thing to consider is some of them had a bit more vitriol towards the US because of some hang ups when the US ruled/hosted bases and they were a lot more vocal about it than Japan. The chances of it becoming similar if it was made in a Korea but it would be mixed with the K-pop stans and K-drama fans.
I wonder what the chances are for the Soviets if they invaded, since they also were planning an invasion.
There were plans to use nukes, I think about 6-9, to destroy most of the fortifications and reserves and have the US forces march straight through the fallout. Even then, US command expected to still take massive casualties. The expectations were so high that we are still using Purple Hearts minted in anticipation of the US invasion and there were several refrigerator ships that were converted to soley carry plasma for wounded soldiers. There was an excellent book put out by D. M. Giangreco, called Hell to Pay: Operation Downfall, that goes over the battle plans and expected results, if you're interested.
The United States had such an overwhelming edge in firepower by then and had developed the doctrine to use it effectively against kamikaze attacks after Okinawa, and most Japanese units were so inexperienced by that time and all of them were so badly equipped, there's no way they could have prevented a beachhead from being secured. They gave up on defending right at the beaches in mid-1943 anyway, it didnt work. They could have gained a victory counter attacking when the US tried to move off the beaches... by taking 20, 30 to 1 losses Zerging advancing American columns. They could have done a lot of damage then because of the US underestimating their numbers. But then they wouldnt have had enough left to destroy the beachhead. It woulda been like 100 fifteen year olds with rocks going after a tank with a hatch that cant be dogged. Yeah sure theyll get inside and kill everyone in the tank, but theres gonna be like 30 of them left at best when it's over. And plenty more tanks around.
I used to be in contact with a really fanatical Japanese neo-fascist and he claimed that even pre-war, the zaibatsu were abusing and exploiting small farmers and that rural areas were dangerously close to famine even pre war. Honestly the entire war came at a really bad moment for the japanese. They should have clamped down on NCO initiative after the mukden incident.
Soviets did not have the naval strength and naval logistics in the east to preform a landing on the home isles. Furthermore, the Americans had it under control and the Soviets still had a lot on their hands in the west.
The japanese government was busy conscripting about 28 million japanese into the civilian militia. 30-1 losses still means about 1 mil dead americans.
They'd be chewed up and spit out on KF in minutes. Fuck both of them, fully.
Believe the Russians would have been told to handle the Kwantung Army in China/Manchuria/Korea.
They took South Sakhalin in our timeline and would have had it in this one, likely the Kurils too. Don't see them getting to Taiwan - no sealift.
