SETTING SUN?
Is empire of Japan Collapsing?
from "La Triplice, n.11/anno 26
General Tojo submits his resignations to His Majesty Hiroito, the Emperor of Japan.
The Japanese Empire is the powerhouse of Asia.
The Sun never set on Tokyo, or so the Emperor says to his subjects on the mother islands and in the various dominions scattered in the Pacific Ocean.
Its navy is stronger and bigger than German and American ones combined and its alliance with British Empire allows to Tokyo a lot manuverability.
They felt invincible, and truly they armies and navies were a marvelous march of victories, from 1905 against Russia in Mnachuria, to 1936 against Usa in the Philippines.
But in 1946, the Japanese machines was interrupted by a crushing defeat: The war of Korean Indipendece.
Altrought Germany and Britain has signed a treaty and normalizing relations in the '20s and '30s, both empires conspired and plotted against each other.
When Japan declared war to China in 1940, to prevent the formation of a national assembly in Najing sponsored by Germany(in clear anti-Japanese and anti-bristish function), in Tokyo everything seemed only the next victory.
The were wrong.
Aided by italian(also if Italy was committed in its own wars, cannot refuse an invitation from Berlin) and german technicians and "conuselors", Japanese army found a match for its teeths.
Korean Volunteers in German uniform at battle of Pyongyang.
China mass armies and german technologies were too much for the overstreched and tired Japanese Empire.
After a war that lasted four years, Tojo Hideki, commanding general and minister in chief of Japan had to ask for a cease fire.
This ended the carreer of this "New Shogun" and changed Japan forever.
Japan resigned its territories in mainland china to the Nanjin government(Excepf fot Tsingao) and gave indipendence to Machukuo, that become a republic and to Korea.
In the streets of Peyongyang peoples rejoice to the news of indipendence.