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There has been a suggestion that Japan should have been more decisive at Pearl Harbor and invaded and occupied Hawaii. A recent blog post [1] analysed this idea

• throwanem 5y ago
  In advance of reading the post, but what an intriguing idea! I doubt they could have sustained an occupation force, though, not with their resource problems, not in advance of expansion across much of the Pacific. You'd have a general on the end of a hell of a long and skinny string, but you'd potentially pin down the entire US Pacific Fleet trying to deal with it and protect the response force...honestly, it's not impossible you could lose the entire invasion force and still achieve the strategic objective, if they held out long enough. And if any army in human history could do it, it'd be the IJA circa 1941, right? What a thought!
  • DrPhish 5y ago
    You may find Konpeki no Kantai [0] interesting as a thought experiment. Its quite a bit more broad-ranging than just a single question, and has a lot of Japanese nationalistic sentiment, but I don't think that detracts from it being an entertaining and thoughtful watch. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konpeki_no_Kantai https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konpeki_no_Kantai