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If Japan had annexed Siberia
by u/Aofen
Japan and Russia historically vied for control in Northeast Asia, with territorial disputes over Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands, and struggles for influence in Korea and Manchuria. Japan controlled Southern Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands before WWII, and briefly occupied much of the Russian Far East during their civil war, but ultimately lost both to Soviet Russia. In this timeline, the Russian defeat in the Russo-Japanese War is even more lopsided, and Japan is awarded all of Sakhalin and the Kamchatka and Chukchi Peninsulas in the following treaty. Japanese attention is diverted from Korea, which maintains independence as a de-facto Japanese client state, to further expansion in Russia. Japan occupies much of Siberia during the Russian Civil War, and following the defeat of the White Army they annex everything east of the Yenisei. Japan never devolves into the increasingly intense militarism and authoritarianism that they did in reality, and manages to avoid all but brief skirmishes against the Soviets in WWII. Eastern Siberia remains an integral part of Japan into the 21st century.
