Pacific Wars (Dutch Superpower)

The Pacific Wars was a series of conflicts between Japan and the United States that saw Japan arise as the most powerful nation in the Pacific in the first two conflicts when Japan seized control of the Philippines and Hawaii and nearly brought the world to the brink of Nuclear war in the third Pacific War when Japan was on the brink of firing ICBMS at the United States to resolve the conflict.

Beginnings
The Japanese Empire and The United States had been in conflict over control of the Pacific trade routes since the 1890's when the United States had seized control of the Philippines and the Japanese had launched two new battleships that were some of the most advanced ships ever built and were easily capable of defeating the best ships that the United States had west of the Panama Canal. The Launching of the IJS Mikasa in 1901 had spurred on a naval race between the two powers and although both fought on the same side in the First World War neither had been significantly involved at sea or land, the Japanese had seized control of the Russian far east and a few small islands and America had expanded its borders slightly to the south.

The main point of contention between the two powers, control of the Pacific had not yet been determined. During WWI Japan and the USA had both significantly expanded the sizes of there navy, officially in order to better deal with there opposition in the North Pacific, namely what was left of the Russian Pacific fleet but in reality both sought to expand there fleets to combat the other. Japan in particular had significantly expanded its fleet in the War building ten new dreadnought battleships and six battle-cruisers to the United States Six and Four. After the war however the Japanese had let its production of large surface ships slide in order to focus on Aircraft Carriers and Submarines. In 1920 Japan had thirteen Battleships, eight Battlecruisers and five Aircraft carriers as well as an assortment of smaller ships. The United States could muster a significantly larger fleet of Twenty Battleships and twelve battlecruisers as well as smaller ships but these were split by necessity between the Pacific and Atlantic fleets.

In 1923 war had broken out between China and Russia, Japan's attention was drawn to the west and it fought two battles against the Russian fleet in which it emerged victorious. The American military establishment saw this as an opportunity to challenge Japanese rule of the Pacific and decided to send the Pacific Fleet north and Attack the Japanese port at Vladivostok.

Attack on Vladivostok
The Japanese naval base at Vladivostok was the cornerstone of the defense of the Northern Japanese home isles and was one of the largest and most important naval bases in the Northern Hemisphere. It was home to eight Japanese Battleships and four Battle-cruisers as well as a sizable percentage of the Japanese destroyer fleet. On January the 3rd the American's orchestrated a torpedo attack on the Japanese fleet that sunk three quarters of the Japanese fleet in one strike. The remnants of the Japanese fleet ocrhestrated a counter attack that took down a pair of American battleships before being sunk.