Board Thread:Timeline Discussions/@comment-5709784-20130513183539/@comment-156.1.40.17-20130514195019

Invasion totally possible, if they made the effort. They took all of indonesia, phillipenes, indochina, and large parts of china in months, all from amphibeous assaults. Hawaii would not be so bad... Hell they were thinking of taking midway island.

Anyways, once Hawaii is neutralized, they can force a stalemate, which means overall victory because they get to keep a massive pacific empire in the peace treaty by the end of the war. If they had sent a force to take west pacific islands instead of indonesia, the Japanese could have won the war. It may not seem so likely today for the only reason that in OTL they lost, thus seeing them as victors is harder just because of this biassed view.