Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-25170451-20150415214156/@comment-3428312-20150428201633

Lordganon wrote: "Intentions" and what they would have likely done instead are, however, different things. Their plans can say such things are they want, the Japanese would not have actually done them. To let the Philippines go back to the US, strategically and with those islands in mind to annex, would have been stupid at best. Their basic idea was to secure what they wanted such as Indoneasia, then return the US it's territory. IIRC, I think they wanted to have the Philippines and Guam demilitarized as part of the trade off as well.