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By a non-American, maybe, though obviously not by the British. By a member of congress from a district that didn't include a shipyard? No way in hell. Future foreign aggression wasn't something the American government believed in until we had to occupy Japan and parts of Germany and protect...

A militarist could only win in 1916 by pretending to be anti-war. Only Wilson could run on "He kept us out of war" while doing everything in his power to suck us into the war because only he was the incumbent.

They might, but they can only make things worse because they're another enemy Japan has to fear. To fix the naval treaties you must remove Woodrow Wilson, but if you remove Woodrow Wilson there is no 1919 naval program and thus no impetus for naval treaties.

Japan goes bellicose because the naval arms limitations treaties go badly for them. If they get the ratio they think lets them defend themselves from American aggression or keep the alliance with Britain that was broken by the Washington Treaty the Hirohito period probably resembles the Taisho...