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If they saw the need for them they probably would have built more transports.While the US would have been busy trying to replace the carriers and the rest of the fleet lost at Pearl Harbor, and I doubt the American lift capacity at the start of war was all that big either. With the transports they did have that would have been sufficient to form a bridgehead capture an airfield and fly troops into Hawaii. They would have hammered the island into submission with no US air cover to oppose them, and finnish off any ships that tried to oppose them with their huge navy and at least 6 aircraft carriers.
And what would have stopped them from invading Alaska and capturing and oilfield there. I guess that's why there was the urgency to build the Alaskan Highway through the north.
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