Japan emerges as arguably the war's biggest winner because it gains resources, victories, treaty standing, and operational lessons at comparatively low cost. Its forces avoid the devastation of the Western Front. Japan also considers sending a large army to Europe and could have arrived in 1915 or 1916, well before American forces. The effects of such an expedition on land warfare remain open here and are left for a specialist in that subject.
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Japan emerges from the First World War stronger
Japan gains territory, resources, status, and operational experience without suffering the Western Front's devastation.