[@Doctoryzer]But there lies the problem, Japan is in no position to simply shut itself in and try to deal with it's domestic issues while letting go of, say Korea and Machuria; the Japanese home-islands possess nowhere near enough resources to sustain the kind of growth they experienced after the Meji-Restoration and subsequent westerizations, and certainly not a Japan in 1937. Especially with a collapsed US and cut off from the American steel, iron and oil, they would be forced to expand their territories. But that only leads to them needing more resources to protect said territories, which leads them to expand to get said resources and etc. etc. But this is all my opinion, and I fully understand your reasoning for this, and I'm looking forward to seeing more North Korea...I mean China!

And besides, having a Japan that is in dire need of resources gives me as a Pacific state an ace in any dealings I'll have with the Japanese, so I won't complain ^^ 

And (sorry to start a sentence with AND twice...I hate myself) now that I've re-read my very solid and factual source of history(aka Wikipedia) that Japan actually did very well during the Depression. [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Depression#Japan]Japan is awesome, even for killing people.[/url]