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Well Japan elmintaing the Soviets would have freed up a lot of troops sitting in Manchuria and they could have then more easily controlled China, South East Asia and Burma and such.

In reality, Japan was forced to keep a big army against the Russians, fight China, the British (Commonwealth) in Burma and South East Asia and the Americas who were steamrolling through the pacific.

If the Japanese were able to get rid of Russia and control most of East Asia, Japan would have become far far more powerful as they would have a secure hold on resources.

Combined with increased power and their strong fighting spirit, I think the Americans would have a much harder time (they had a very hard time anyways). America did not display its full potential in WW2, but I think America would have been quite stressed fighting a much stronger Japan and Germany.