The latest installment of the ongoing Command and Conquer Real Time Strategy Game Series, Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3, will have Japanese Imperial forces fighting both Soviet and Allied forces. Japanese Imperial forces will be fielding Gundam like fighter plane/mechs and large laser firing mechas.
The basic storyline to a bit too convoluted to explain succinctly, but this glib snippet from a EA press release gives you a sense of it.
In Red Alert 3, the desperate leadership of a doomed Soviet Union travels back in time to change history and restore the glory of Mother Russia. The time travel mission goes awry, creating an alternate timeline where technology has followed an entirely different evolution, a new superpower has been thrust on to the world stage, and World War III is raging. The Empire of the Rising Sun has risen in the East, making World War III a three-way struggle between the Soviets, the Allies, and the Empire with armies fielding wacky and wonderful weapons and technologies like Tesla coils, heavily armed War Blimps, teleportation, armored bears, intelligent dolphins, floating island fortresses, and transforming tanks.
What if the Japanese Empire had never fallen and instead became the ultimate high-tech military superpower? The end result is an imaginative and playful vision of an alternate future filled with possibility.
It will be interesting to see how this plays out in the Korean marketplace, a world hotspot for Real Time Strategy fans.
Thankfully for EA, the series' historical continuity has the Soviets possessing atomic weapons, not the allies (whose ultimate weapon is a Chronosphere, a transporter like device that warps units to anywhere in the world in an instant), so it won't be the Allies nuking Japan in the game...it will be the Soviets.
