I think I've said it before on this forum that I don't think Japan escaped the Twilight War without much damage. Its just too important of a country for a whole load of reasons to not be targeted by nuclear weapons. Their military is also on the large size, particularly their naval and air forces.
I haven't yet done an overview of likely targets but there would be a lot. The US bases, the Japanese military bases, ports, airports, oil refineries and industrial war targets. I just couldn't see the Soviets allowing them to remain intact when there at war with the US, NATO, China and others. I think in Twilight 2000 the Japanese are actually fighting the Soviets over control over the Kuriles islands and Sakhalin Island, and I could easily see that fighting spreading over to Japans Hokkaido Island. At the very least I could see all sorts of naval actions and air strikes going round the sea and coastline of Japan in the Twilight War, as well as quite a few Soviet nuclear/EMP strikes to knock it out of the war and deny its facilities to America.
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