The timing of Japanese intervention can unify powers already facing German and Italian aggression. Their ability to send ships east still depends on which European opponents remain active. A stalled or shortened European war could release forces that were historically occupied elsewhere. Japan consequently faces several possible fleet dispositions, rather than one fixed historical response. Each depends on a different path through the earlier scenarios.
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Japan's entry changes which Allied fleets it would face
A Japanese attack could bring the Allied powers together, but the available response depends on the course of the European war.