Japan is very tangentially mentioned in v.1 as being sufficiently intact that Japanese merchants and traders penetrating into Soviet territory are the main source of information about conditions inside the USSR (from the .sov vehicle guide). In the 2300AD extension of the Twilight War timeline they're also one of the nations that contribute a garrison to replace the US forces in the Middle East when they get pulled out in the mid 2000s.
The thinking at GDW seems to have been that they made it through the war pretty intact, though probably with the same basic resource denial hits France took.
Can't remember what the v.2 timeline says for that but I just ignore that timeline completely for other reasons.
As noted in the other thread the fate of Taiwan is interesting, too, and unclear in the Twilight War scenario.
Edit to add: Japan's survival may have hinged on "pulling a France" and declaring neutrality and either closing US bases or stating they could only be used for regional missions like securing the territorial integrity of South Korea.
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