Specifically from a Filipino, South Asian, African, Korean, or Chinese perspective. We hear so much about World War II from the European and American perspectives, and The Man in the High Castle is the same, but often the Pacific War is narrowed down to Americans vs Japanese and you don’t really think about the war in Africa beyond the imperial powers fighting each other. Plus The Man in the High Castle only briefly touches on what happens in Africa in the alternate reality. So I don’t know if there’s a book like this out there, but if there is I really want to read it.
by simpingforMinYoongi
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Just a Google search. King Rat by James Clavell. It’s set in a Japanese POW camp, Singapore, 1945. 400 pages.
Cryptonomicon has hints of alternate history but it’s subtle. Much of it is set in the Philippines
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_alternate_history_fiction
*In Search of the Epitaph,* Bok Koh-il
>In 1909, Itō Hirobumi survives his assassination attempt by An Jung-geun and succeeds in a complete Japanization of Koreans, which leads to the Empire of Japan dominating Korea by 1987.
This is dystopian fantasy, but The Windup Girl by Bacigalupi.