raharris1973
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What if immediately after the Hiroshima detonation of August 6th, 1945, Japan, including all its people and all objects and waters within its 12 nautical mile limit into the ocean, and encompassing the Homelands, the Kurils, southern Sakhhalkin, the Bonins north of American-captured Iwo Jima, and the Ryukyus north of American captured Okinawa, is sent back in time to August 6th, 1845. None of the other Japanese overseas territories or protectorates or occupied territories like Korea, Taiwan, Manchukuo, occupied China or Indonesia are coming with them, north the military forces there, north the Japanese civilians and officials abroad.
Japan is now in the mid-19th century, with no one trying to invade it, just curious westerners trying to trade with it. It is heavily burnt, damaged, and food insecure, with possibly a female-skewed gender ratio. It's inland waters are mined. But at least the Japanese soon find the sky won't be raining bombs. Although back on it's here's, with damaged infrastructure and urban housing stock and low fuel supplies, it's people possess the most state of the art technical knowledge and weapons in 1845.
One of the first things the Japanese notice, in addition to the end to the bombing, submarine attacks, and shore bombardments, is the sudden absence of anyone's radio traffic but their own. And furthermore, the absence Japanese overseas radio traffic.
How will Japan go about surviving, rebuilding, prospering, and reshaping the new neighborhood and world it finds itself in?
....meanwhile...
In a dimension of the multi-verse next door, where all this Japanese territory vanished in an instant on 6 August, life goes for the world of 1945, but those Japanese lands are replaced by their equivalent lands from 6 August 1845.
Later on August 6th, Americans notice the sudden 'radio silence' of the Japanese home islands, which is inexplicable.
American reconnaissance flights overfly to inspect damage and look for further targets. Their reports are uniformly...strange.
Their finding nary a factory, a ship, an airfield or metal weapon.
Close-flyboys show fields and urban masses, with pilots and navigators saying the landscape "doesn't look built up, it doesn't look knocked down, it just looks...pretty as a picture"
How do the Americans, and the world community, deal with a Japan 100 years behind, not actually responsible for the late war, and war crimes, yet which they want to never become a warlike state, and is the only place to deposit a over million Japanese overseas (overwhelmingly servicemen) from the 20th century who need to be repatriated from countries the Japanese empire conquered and occupied during the late war or even earlier?
Japan is now in the mid-19th century, with no one trying to invade it, just curious westerners trying to trade with it. It is heavily burnt, damaged, and food insecure, with possibly a female-skewed gender ratio. It's inland waters are mined. But at least the Japanese soon find the sky won't be raining bombs. Although back on it's here's, with damaged infrastructure and urban housing stock and low fuel supplies, it's people possess the most state of the art technical knowledge and weapons in 1845.
One of the first things the Japanese notice, in addition to the end to the bombing, submarine attacks, and shore bombardments, is the sudden absence of anyone's radio traffic but their own. And furthermore, the absence Japanese overseas radio traffic.
How will Japan go about surviving, rebuilding, prospering, and reshaping the new neighborhood and world it finds itself in?
....meanwhile...
In a dimension of the multi-verse next door, where all this Japanese territory vanished in an instant on 6 August, life goes for the world of 1945, but those Japanese lands are replaced by their equivalent lands from 6 August 1845.
Later on August 6th, Americans notice the sudden 'radio silence' of the Japanese home islands, which is inexplicable.
American reconnaissance flights overfly to inspect damage and look for further targets. Their reports are uniformly...strange.
Their finding nary a factory, a ship, an airfield or metal weapon.
Close-flyboys show fields and urban masses, with pilots and navigators saying the landscape "doesn't look built up, it doesn't look knocked down, it just looks...pretty as a picture"
How do the Americans, and the world community, deal with a Japan 100 years behind, not actually responsible for the late war, and war crimes, yet which they want to never become a warlike state, and is the only place to deposit a over million Japanese overseas (overwhelmingly servicemen) from the 20th century who need to be repatriated from countries the Japanese empire conquered and occupied during the late war or even earlier?
