what if japan had invaded australia?

Answer 1

it would have been imposible for the japanese to invade as they would not be able to cover the whole of the country,they would need an army 20 times the size of the one they had,remember you can fit britain 32 times into australia,now thats big,also they could never survive in our bush,

Answer 2

Do you mean, if the invasion was successful, or if they tried?

Originally Japan had no intention of invading Australia, but after their early success when the colonial powers mostly capitulated, they considered where to keep going to next.

Japan had fought a mostly colonial war, that is one of colonial possessions rather than fought the countries directly. The exception being China which had tied up a fair amount of their military resources.

Japan made some intelligence gathering related landings in the Northern Territory of Australia.

The American plan was not to defend the north of Australia, but evacuate the sparsely populated north as far south as Brisbane. Japan would either have to stretch long supply lines over land or beat the Allies at sea.

In fact Japan had lost WWII at pearl harbor. By sinking battleships in shallow water, these ships were quickly refloated and ready for battle by the time of the battle of midway. Like many previous wars control of the ocean proved critical.

Attempting to invade Australia would have put the Japanese navy in a very weak position and not match its true colonial goals of ruling Asia (though note that, Japan was only able to do this because the powerful British fleet was back in England defending the home country).

Answer 3

The short answer is that there would have been a small number of Japanese soldiers fighting at the extreme end of a very long and perilous supply line, and they would have been crushed. The Japanese had a hard enough time fighting in New Guinea, well north of Australia. A further over-extention southward wouldn't have helped them a bit, and might even have hastened defeat.

Plus, the Aussies are tough. Have you ever gone drinking with an Australian? They can drink your butt under the table. And that's just among their skinny women.

Answer 4

Well they did bomb Darwin and Broome numerous times and also submarines were detected in Sydney harbor so they were very close.I have seen a couple of programs on the defense of Australia at that time manly the locals and indigenous communities were given a small amount of training.It must have been very scary and confusing for the population of Broome because they had a large amount of Japanese pearl divers in their community at the time of the war.

Answer 5

Vegamite and Sushi?!?! Kangaroo Teriyaki?!?!?

Guess we should just count ourselves lucky!