All Scenarios
Browse all alternate history scenarios across different time periods and regions.
What If Japan Never Closed Itself to The Outside World?
Exploring the alternate timeline where Japan never implemented the sakoku policy of national isolation, potentially reshaping East Asian geopolitics, global trade networks, and technological development for centuries.
What If Japan Never Surrendered in World War II?
Exploring the alternate timeline where Imperial Japan refused to surrender in 1945, triggering Operation Downfall, the Allied invasion of the Japanese Home Islands, and reshaping the post-war global order.
What If Japanese Americans Were Never Interned?
Exploring the alternate timeline where the United States government did not authorize the mass incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II, fundamentally altering the nation's civil rights trajectory and Japanese American community development.
What If Japan's Bullet Train Network Expanded Differently?
Exploring the alternate timeline where Japan's shinkansen system followed a different expansion path, fundamentally altering the nation's economic geography, urban development, and transportation culture.
What If Japan's Economic Miracle Never Happened?
Exploring the alternate timeline where Japan failed to achieve its remarkable post-war economic reconstruction and growth, dramatically altering the global economic landscape and Pacific power dynamics.
What If Japan's Keiretsu System Was Reformed Earlier?
Exploring the alternate timeline where Japan's powerful business conglomerates underwent significant structural reforms in the early 1980s, potentially averting the lost decades and reshaping the global economic landscape.