Would armed Alaskans stop a Japanese landing?

Would a Japanese landing force in Alaska face enough well-armed irregulars to stop it?

Probably not; 1941 Alaska had a much smaller and more scattered population than the modern territory, leaving local resistance badly overmatched.

A viewer asks whether Japanese troops would face a large body of well-armed irregulars in Alaska. Projecting the population and settlement pattern of present-day Alaska backward to 1941 gives a misleading picture. The territory then held far fewer people across a much less densely settled area. That demographic reality and the Japanese army's willingness to use extreme violence would leave local resistance unable to bear the main burden of defeating a landing.