The Japanese War
KitFisto1997
Banned
We've hit 200 posts! Here's the first post for the Japanese War arc! 
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Nuclear Age 1935-1959
Land of the Divided Sun: A History of Japan (1942-1999)
Avaline Yamamoto, Oahu University Press 2010.
The Empire of Japan has had a rather rough history. The ancient nation, having been ruled by the Yamato line since 660 BC has gone through periods of military rule, division and Communalist rule in the North. The latter of which can be traced to the division of Europe down ideological lines in the 1870's that only abated in the 1980's when the German regime came crashing down in the October Revolution. The division of Japan by the Allied Powers and their Communalist associates in the 1940's has been seen as one of the many rough points in Japanese history that still has left scars across the former DMZ that crosses through the countryside.
The first strirrings of trouble began in the early 1930's when the nascent Japanese Worker's Party began to accumulate votes in the rural areas of Northern Japan, this region was known to be a hotbed of spying activity between Japanese and Red Russian spies who were trading information on troop movements and armament production that was vital to the constant patrolling of what was known as the 'Pacific Front' of the Cold War where an ever-present naval blockade was enforced by the governments of the Allied Treaty Organisation and the newly formed Warsaw Pact. The blockade extended from the Russian coastline all the way to their fellow Russophones in Aleyska and went as far south as the Spice Islands in what is now the Moluccas Republic.
The rise of spy activity in the region continued to be an issue for the Japanese government. Emperor Hirohito had formed ties with British monarch King Edward VIII as an honourary member of the Allied Treaty Orginisation (South Japan would later become a full member after the Japanese War had ended), but the Emperor didn't want to jeporadise Anglo-Japanese relations by closing off the country to foreign interests. When the national elections went ahead in 1937, the Japanese Communalist Party, being influenced by the recent revolution in California, came out on top as the most popular party in the northern prefectures. Small scale rebellions against the government in Japanese Korea and Manchuria were also putting pressure on the government as the Communalists began to gain more power by threatening local leaders with insurrection if they didn't convince their constituencies to vote for the Party.
When 1940 rolled around, the Japanese Empire had put down a small scale rebellion by a radical group of Korean nationalists and was well on the way to a signing in a set of Acts that would promote the equality of the Japanese, Korean and Manchu languages in local governments. The Act was signed into law that year, granting the local populaces similar rights to that in the United Kingdom. More Red activity that was later found to be backed by a Russian spy ring was secretly leaked to the British government in an attempt to gain support from the Allied Powers. After the elections of 1942, the country had reached an ideological breaking point, the Communalists had taken over most of the northern half of the country while a recently unified Liberal-Conservative coalition government was unable to stop them, lest a Russian-backed invasion was to occur.
One event in particular would spark the powder keg that lead to the start of the war... The British Nuclear Program.
Map of Japan after the Japanese War (1942-1946)
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Nuclear Age 1935-1959
Land of the Divided Sun: A History of Japan (1942-1999)
Avaline Yamamoto, Oahu University Press 2010.
The Empire of Japan has had a rather rough history. The ancient nation, having been ruled by the Yamato line since 660 BC has gone through periods of military rule, division and Communalist rule in the North. The latter of which can be traced to the division of Europe down ideological lines in the 1870's that only abated in the 1980's when the German regime came crashing down in the October Revolution. The division of Japan by the Allied Powers and their Communalist associates in the 1940's has been seen as one of the many rough points in Japanese history that still has left scars across the former DMZ that crosses through the countryside.
The first strirrings of trouble began in the early 1930's when the nascent Japanese Worker's Party began to accumulate votes in the rural areas of Northern Japan, this region was known to be a hotbed of spying activity between Japanese and Red Russian spies who were trading information on troop movements and armament production that was vital to the constant patrolling of what was known as the 'Pacific Front' of the Cold War where an ever-present naval blockade was enforced by the governments of the Allied Treaty Organisation and the newly formed Warsaw Pact. The blockade extended from the Russian coastline all the way to their fellow Russophones in Aleyska and went as far south as the Spice Islands in what is now the Moluccas Republic.
The rise of spy activity in the region continued to be an issue for the Japanese government. Emperor Hirohito had formed ties with British monarch King Edward VIII as an honourary member of the Allied Treaty Orginisation (South Japan would later become a full member after the Japanese War had ended), but the Emperor didn't want to jeporadise Anglo-Japanese relations by closing off the country to foreign interests. When the national elections went ahead in 1937, the Japanese Communalist Party, being influenced by the recent revolution in California, came out on top as the most popular party in the northern prefectures. Small scale rebellions against the government in Japanese Korea and Manchuria were also putting pressure on the government as the Communalists began to gain more power by threatening local leaders with insurrection if they didn't convince their constituencies to vote for the Party.
When 1940 rolled around, the Japanese Empire had put down a small scale rebellion by a radical group of Korean nationalists and was well on the way to a signing in a set of Acts that would promote the equality of the Japanese, Korean and Manchu languages in local governments. The Act was signed into law that year, granting the local populaces similar rights to that in the United Kingdom. More Red activity that was later found to be backed by a Russian spy ring was secretly leaked to the British government in an attempt to gain support from the Allied Powers. After the elections of 1942, the country had reached an ideological breaking point, the Communalists had taken over most of the northern half of the country while a recently unified Liberal-Conservative coalition government was unable to stop them, lest a Russian-backed invasion was to occur.
One event in particular would spark the powder keg that lead to the start of the war... The British Nuclear Program.
Map of Japan after the Japanese War (1942-1946)
