Correct me if I'm wrong, but all the studying and reading and knowledge that I've gathered has led me to understand that the Japanese war was an attempt to occupy resource-rich lands to compensate for the physical small size of Japan and it's inability to produce goods and foodstuffs and other essentials (rice, rubber, land for crops, etc). I don't think the Japanese would have stopped at the Malayan doorstep. They'd already taken Siam, China, Manchuria, Laos, Cambodia...they would have just gone ahead and taken the British colonies in my opinion.

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