"Japan’s Victory in World War I" Topic
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 Editor in Chief Bill   | 08 Jun 2021 5:53 p.m. PST |
A review of Japan's role as a principal Great War victor highlights critical lessons from naval history. From Naval History magazine: link Irony? Japan and the United States reached a secret agreement in 1917 that provided for Japan to patrol the waters around Hawaii, allowing the United States to devote more forces to the Atlantic This was new to me: Second, the United States and Great Britain rejected Japan's proposal for a racial-equality provision in the League of Nations charter, which would have marked acceptance of Japan as a co-equal actor. And for a what-if campaign: Out of concern for Japan's emerging power, Great Britain decided to allow its alliance with Japan to lapse in 1921, and it was annulled in 1923. The British feared becoming entangled in a potential war between Japan and the United States, which seemed increasingly possible. |
| John the OFM | 08 Jun 2021 8:16 p.m. PST |
Well, that's interesting, to say the least. |
| gamershs | 08 Jun 2021 9:00 p.m. PST |
There were two reasons why Japan could not be a coequal with The United States and Great Britain. The United States had commitments to the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans and the Gulf of Mexico. Great Britain had commitments all over the world. Japan had commitments to only the Pacific so any fleet she had would be concentrated giving her the advantage in any war. The United States and the British Empire were major economic powers while Japan was not at that time a major economic powers. While a major ship construction program would put a strain on the United States and Great Britain it would be disastrous to Japan. By freezing the ship ratios it stopped a ship race that would have been a disaster to the economy. |
| Striker | 09 Jun 2021 1:09 a.m. PST |
From what I've read the US and UK were impressed with Japanese ship handling. |
| Blutarski | 09 Jun 2021 8:39 p.m. PST |
Japanese naval forces were not only active in the Pacific, IJN destroyer flotillas served in the Mediterranean during WW1 as well. Japan was ditched by the victorious Entente powers after WW1 because her services were no longer required as a counter-balance to Imperial Russia in the Far East. B |
| advocate | 12 Jun 2021 1:20 a.m. PST |
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