Imperial Japanese factions in a lasting British alliance

How might Imperial Way and other Japanese nationalist factions develop if Britain and Japan continued sailing together as allies?

The alliance could encourage attention to northern resources and strengthen factions with British connections. Its effect on the balance among competing groups remains uncertain.

A continuing Anglo-Japanese alliance could direct Japanese nationalist factions toward the northern resource area. Friendly British contacts are considered possible, and repeated meetings between the British royal and Japanese imperial households could influence political relationships during the 1920s and 1930s. Other Japanese factions could gain prestige through their association with Britain as the country's principal ally. The resulting balance among competing groups remains conditional. Britain's earlier alliance with Japan is cited as a stabilizing influence through much of the First World War.