Mr. Shinohara will immigrate future dictators and hated people to America, to stop World Wars before they start, and other major adversities of the 20th century. What do you think could happen in those cases?

Others will take their place. Especially in the case of Saddam, where the CIA will simply choose another puppet to install in Iraq. And the repercussions on history will be massive. (And believe me, if this intervention results in the purging of anime from history, I will fight it tooth and nail.)

(i) There are a few of the people on the list who were essentially individual masterminds.

(ii) There were many lessons learned in the 20th century that are important for us as a people to learn.

(iii) What about the major American-based folks? Lee Harvey Oswald, James Earl Ray, Joseph McCarthy, etc.

@ragingloli No need to worry there – when Mr. Shinohara prevents (or delays?) the war with Japan, many soldiers otherwise killed in battle will go on to draw cartoon characters, so you’ll see an even bigger Animexplosion than we had in our original timeline!

@Christian95 It was a one-way mission. The apparition cannot return to his original setting until his host body dies in 1990 and lets him shuffle off that coil. The supercorporeal entity that possessed the body of Mr. Shinohara will be debriefed after his death, when he gets snatched back up by his observing compatriots.

@grumpyfish for (iii), Leon Czolgosz is relocated to an island off Jamaica to keep President McKinley alive. Similar plans will be made and carried out for the people you’ve mentioned.

Martin Luther King will attend Mr. Shinohara’s funeral after he dies on September 1, 1990.

I really think you should do more research on who did what, who were they influenced by, where did their rationale come from, what environmental circumstances did they grow up in, and also, what events did they trigger. Remember, A leads to B leads to C leads to D and E, D leads to F, E leads G, H, J, and so on. Some of those events following A will most certainly be positive, which will also be undone by your intervention. You need to study history in very high detail do have any hope of having at least some realistic extrapolation of your interventions. History is a complex deterministic and networked cascade, where events are caused by other events and influenced by events that have been caused by others. For example, Without Hitler, Europe would not have learned the lesson on what a horror war really is, and would not have become the peaceful entitiy it now is.
You basically need to consult historians, and I mean, academically trained historians and political scientists, and with all due respect to fellow flutherites, you will not get this on this site.

Do ever just sit and watch cartoons? Maybe you should.

Sorry, but I have to add this to my list of “Must-Miss Books.”

@gailcalled I understand when “Alternate History” is not a genre you’re most fond of. It’s a fact of life. People hate Star Trek, Star Wars, Pokémon, and Avatar, which I’ve grown fond of. Someone will be bound to hate something.

@SirGoofy How does watching cartoons somehow help the furtherment of my novel? I don’t think I can find too many “alternate history” cartoons.

(Maybe there are Alternate History animes, but they’ll not be easy to find, I’m sure.)

@ragingloli That must be the best answer of the entire set of responses here so far! Bravo!

The Giants attempted to sign Fidel Castro to a pitching contract. Didn’t work out. Instead, we got the Cuban problem.

@filmfann I can’t find anything on that here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fidel_castro (So, was this a joke?)

Anyways, when Mr. Shinohara finances the construction of Prosperity Bridge (Puente de la Prosperidad) between Key West and Havana, and finishes its construction an undecided amount of years later, Cuba’s economy will boost so far that their people won’t see a need for a government like Fidel Castro’s.

Sometime after Mr. Shinohara pays the Educational Ministry of Cuba to make English a compulsory subject from Kindergarten through ALL levels of schooling, he will set in motion the effort to admit Cuba to the Union as a US State.

@EgaoNoGenki
I would prefer Cuba to stay independent and preserve their own culture and language.

@EgaoNoGenki No joke. I remember reading this in the Chronicle years ago.
There are websites that mention the rumor of this, but nothing certain.
Even the site you cited mentions that he was a baseball player in college.

Write your own book, please. Unless, of course, you are going to give credit to everyone here for writing it for you.

To begin with World War 1. The causes of this war go much deeper than Princeps and disgruntled Serbs, The real issues were a realignment of alliances, many secret and complex, The Britisn motivation was fear of a German naval buildup caused by Kaiser Wilhem II demanding a modern battleship fleet not because he needed one but because he had read Alfred Thayer Mahon;s book “The Influence of Sea ower Upon History”. Perhaps preventing Willy from obtaing the book might have eliminated that causal factor,

The realignment that occurred between Britain and France was largely a factor of the Prince of Wales, later to becone Edward VII love of French culture, especially the casinos and social events. Some way of keeping him occupied in the UK may have orevented “La Etente Cordiale” of 1903 from being fornulated. The Austro-Hungarian Empire was dying as was the Ottoman Empire. Perhaps a Gernan intervention in the 1890s and incorporation into a Pan Germanic Enoire would have prevented tha tragic move that led te Kaiser to issue cate blache protection to A-H no matter vwhat they did, from happening, Keepinfg Turkey and Italy out of the war would have been simple. The Frano-German rivalry leading back to 1870 was inevitable to open into war. Without Britush intervention the German attack on Paris would have succeeded, a replay of 1870. British ties to Germany were strong prior to the early 1890s and should have renained so, Britain using naval poer and Gernay being thr predominate force on land in the continent. An Anglo-German hegemony would have cooled things off.. Let the Balkan Wars sputter on as a side show,Russia could be kept out of the vwar simply because she was not prepared and Niclas II could be easily dissuaded, A lightning war inb the west over Francewould have settled Frecnh ab=nger for abotherv 25+ years. America need not havev gotten involved until thevU-boat issue, occurring much later, Preventing these secret allianceswouldvbe peace,
Preventing WW1 would also have prevented WW2, in s peaceful society, the likes of Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini etc. would not have emerged. The soviet union could have been continued as a threat to neighbors if was isolated by all western efforts. Lenin was the polital genius, his early death left a power vacuum that Trotsky and Stalin could fight out. Executing the Schllfen plan with out BEF interventiions would have ended the war with another Gernan victory. Moving people would not have helpred as the causes were well-developed beforn the beginning.

As to the european WW2 would have been unnecessary as the Versailles treatment of Gernany went too far and would not have provoked the Nazi rise to power. Mussolini was a minor figure and without Nazi backing would have been a local phenomena,

Japan was a special case, rearmanent and agreement to spheres of influence could have peacemakers.. As for China, simply backing Mao and using intense pressure about his reforms may have worke. The korean Kim family was a sideshow created by China as to an anti-Japanese ploy. Pulling the plug on him would have nipped off the Korean War in the bud. Likewise Ho Chi Minh was susceptable to American influence prior to the war with Japan.

I think that your ‘keep the century more peaceful” by changing events rather than people. The dictators were opportunists and took advantages of high unemployment and people’s sense of hopelessness.

@Eureka Yes, of course. My list of acknowledgements in the beginning or the end of the novel will have a website subsection that will say something like:

THANKS TO THE USERS OF:
Answerbag.com
Fluther.com
Askville.Amazon.com
BlurtIt.com
(and any other site I sought help from.)

Ho Chi Minh

One thing to consider:
These were bad seeds, but their countries were fertile soil for what happened.
Germany was a mess after WWI.
Russia was a mess after the October Revolution.
Cuba was rife with corruption, and the people were sick of it.
Without these men, the same thing would have probably happened, but with different leaders.

@arpinum Yes, he’ll settle in Chinatown, San Francisco while he’s still a preteen.

@filmfann For WWI, see Gavrilo Princip on the original post

There’s no October Revolution, because he’s also immigrating Lenin, Stalin, and Trotsky, remember?

In Cuba, I think he bolsters the police force. He does a lot for Cuba, like construct a bridge to Florida.

@ THANKS TO THE USERS OF:
Answerbag.com
Fluther.com
Askville.Amazon.com
BlurtIt.com
(and any other

Good grief. You ask this type of question at that many sites? And the moderators accept this type of thing?

@Eureka Unfortunately. However, not so much last night. Self-promotion is against the fluther guidelines. As are things that are “Vague, confusing, or generally non-sensical” and “Egocentric attention-grabbing.”