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3_Orange_Japan
1940-1942: Fumimaro Konoe (Imperial Rule Assistance Association)
1942-1945: Hideki Tojo (Imperial Rule Assistance Association)
1942 (Majority) def. unopposed
1945-1946: Kuniaki Koiso (Imperial Rule Assistance Association)
1946-1946: Prince Naruhiko Higashikuni (Non-Partisan)
1946-1950: Douglas MacArthur (US Military Occupation)
1950-1953: Shigeru Yoshida (Liberal)
1950 (Coalition with Socialists and Cooperatives) def. Tetsu Katayama (Socialist), Mamoru Shigemitsu (Cooperative)
1952 (Coalition with Cooperatives) def. Tetsu Katayama (Socialist), Mamoru Shigemitsu (Cooperative)
1953-1960: Tetsu Katayama (Social Democratic)
1953 (Majority) def. Shigeru Yoshida (Liberal), Ichiro Hatoyama (Conservative)
1955 (Majority) def. Ichiro Hatoyama (Conservative), Taketora Ogata (Liberal)
1958 (Majority) def. Ichiro Hatoyama (National Democratic)
1960-1963: Suehiro Nishio (Social Democratic)
1960 (Majority) def. Nobusuke Kishi (National Democratic), Hayato Ikeda (Liberal)
1963-1975: Eisaku Sato (Social Democratic)
1963 (Majority) def. Nobusuke Kishi (National Democratic), Hayato Ikeda (Liberal)
1968 (Majority) def. Takeo Fukuda (National Democratic), Masayoshi Ohira (Liberal), Kozo Sasaki (Democratic Socialist)
1972 (Majority) def. Takeo Fukuda (National Democratic), Tomomi Narita (Democratic Socialist), Masayoshi Ohira (Liberal)
It was Japan who went to war with the United States, and in so doing dragged in her long-term allies in the British Empire (as well as her somewhat more recent allies in the German Reich). While America concentrated on smashing the opponents on her doorstep, invading Canada and struggling to overcome the Royal Navy, the Japanese were almost allowed a free hand in the Pacific, invading China, European colonies and managing to wrest the Hawaiian islands from America. But well the United States landed troops in Britain proper, the Japanese were already falling back as American troops jumped across the Pacific islands, and invaded the Japanese occupied East Indies. By the time of the fall of Britain in 1945, the US had already drawn up plans to invade the Home Islands.
Projections for the death toll of an invasion were astonishing, and a consequence of this was that Japan enjoyed the dubious privilege of being the only country to be bombed with atomic weapons. The Japanese surrender came swiftly afterwards. MacArthur was appointed as Military Governor, which prevented him standing for the Democratic-Republicans in 1948.
The post-occupation political scene was initially deeply divided and unstable between continuity parties and new parties that emerged from the aether. Under American influence, the forces of the centre-left united and in 1953 broke through and established majority government. On the other hand, the right only enjoyed occasional unity, and by the dawn of the 1960s the party system was firmly established with the Social Democrats as the arbiters of Industrial Government. A spoils system and political machine was established, ensuring Social Democratic dominance. In 1963, Eisaku Sato became Prime Minister. A former Liberal, he was an inveterate centrist and loyal to the American forged consensus, ensuring Japan's prominence in the Western International and de facto leader of the Westintern's members in the Far East.
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3_Orange_Japan
1940-1942: Fumimaro Konoe (Imperial Rule Assistance Association)
1942-1945: Hideki Tojo (Imperial Rule Assistance Association)
1942 (Majority) def. unopposed
1945-1946: Kuniaki Koiso (Imperial Rule Assistance Association)
1946-1946: Prince Naruhiko Higashikuni (Non-Partisan)
1946-1950: Douglas MacArthur (US Military Occupation)
1950-1953: Shigeru Yoshida (Liberal)
1950 (Coalition with Socialists and Cooperatives) def. Tetsu Katayama (Socialist), Mamoru Shigemitsu (Cooperative)
1952 (Coalition with Cooperatives) def. Tetsu Katayama (Socialist), Mamoru Shigemitsu (Cooperative)
1953-1960: Tetsu Katayama (Social Democratic)
1953 (Majority) def. Shigeru Yoshida (Liberal), Ichiro Hatoyama (Conservative)
1955 (Majority) def. Ichiro Hatoyama (Conservative), Taketora Ogata (Liberal)
1958 (Majority) def. Ichiro Hatoyama (National Democratic)
1960-1963: Suehiro Nishio (Social Democratic)
1960 (Majority) def. Nobusuke Kishi (National Democratic), Hayato Ikeda (Liberal)
1963-1975: Eisaku Sato (Social Democratic)
1963 (Majority) def. Nobusuke Kishi (National Democratic), Hayato Ikeda (Liberal)
1968 (Majority) def. Takeo Fukuda (National Democratic), Masayoshi Ohira (Liberal), Kozo Sasaki (Democratic Socialist)
1972 (Majority) def. Takeo Fukuda (National Democratic), Tomomi Narita (Democratic Socialist), Masayoshi Ohira (Liberal)
It was Japan who went to war with the United States, and in so doing dragged in her long-term allies in the British Empire (as well as her somewhat more recent allies in the German Reich). While America concentrated on smashing the opponents on her doorstep, invading Canada and struggling to overcome the Royal Navy, the Japanese were almost allowed a free hand in the Pacific, invading China, European colonies and managing to wrest the Hawaiian islands from America. But well the United States landed troops in Britain proper, the Japanese were already falling back as American troops jumped across the Pacific islands, and invaded the Japanese occupied East Indies. By the time of the fall of Britain in 1945, the US had already drawn up plans to invade the Home Islands.
Projections for the death toll of an invasion were astonishing, and a consequence of this was that Japan enjoyed the dubious privilege of being the only country to be bombed with atomic weapons. The Japanese surrender came swiftly afterwards. MacArthur was appointed as Military Governor, which prevented him standing for the Democratic-Republicans in 1948.
The post-occupation political scene was initially deeply divided and unstable between continuity parties and new parties that emerged from the aether. Under American influence, the forces of the centre-left united and in 1953 broke through and established majority government. On the other hand, the right only enjoyed occasional unity, and by the dawn of the 1960s the party system was firmly established with the Social Democrats as the arbiters of Industrial Government. A spoils system and political machine was established, ensuring Social Democratic dominance. In 1963, Eisaku Sato became Prime Minister. A former Liberal, he was an inveterate centrist and loyal to the American forged consensus, ensuring Japan's prominence in the Western International and de facto leader of the Westintern's members in the Far East.
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