Personally, I am very interested in the Indian war. If Dalits embrace Buddhism that greatly increases the chances of Buddhism. Also, northeast states are ripe for missionary activities. I think if they synergize some sorta personal cults for Buddha like those of pure land Buddhism, Jodo-Shu or Jodo-Shinshu they will get more converts among Hindus. Buddha considered 9th avatar of Vishnu can getting something like canon hare Krishna movement not impossible. Also, they can get right wings like Hindu Mahasabha by pointing out Buddhist age of Indian golden age which they are trying to revive.
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They are primerely targeted by the new western Buddhism and it will become a massive majority religion in India at the End of TTL.
What is their plan with the afgan area? I mean many of Buddhist sites present there surrendering them to Muslim ruler of Afghanistan will not make Buddhist militants happy. how do they wish to deal with Muslims? I mean they are sympathetic towards the neo-ottoman state. With Japanese empire being far to focused on Buddhism and their own ideal they never accept such divided loyalty. Maybe conversion attempt among lower class Muslims or invent Japan approved version of Muslim faith like bahai faith?
Neo-Ottoman-Japanese tensions over relations in Sumatra and benghal will grow and cause first tensions, this will later increase and militant Buddhists will try to relaim Afghanistan and Central Asia as well by any means. The Japanese will support them or even Muslim sects and cult groups similar to Bahai to that extent, just like they allready do TTL in East and Southeast Asia.
I won't be surprised the Japanese Emperor will have a full coronation ceremony in front of Mahabodhi temple as chakravartin and restorer of Buddhism in it's the birthplace. What is the other Buddhist states view towards reclaiming India and restoration of Buddhism there?
Also is there a Illuminati sorta group in Japan and it's empire to spread Buddhism?
Will we see more Japanese setters in India? I am sure Nichiren sect will send a lot of colonists to secure Bengal, Bihar and Odisha. they will certainly support racial intermixing so that prime Buddhist holy sites remain in their control.
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The Japanese State Shinto-Buddhism (goverment sort of) and military will fund and support many of this Buddhist reclaims and conversion in India and encourage other Buddhist member states (like Chosen, Manchruia, Mengjiang, Tang, Siam/ Thailand, Vietnam, Laos or Cambodia to help out too), some Buddhist sects will help too but it's more of a out in the open government-military thing TTL. There might be some Japanese settlers in India/ Benghal TTL but most will settle in East Asia (along the coasts and rivers to the Japanese Homeland) as well as in Southeast Asia, the Pacific and the West Coast of the Americas. For them and the German settlement in ACP Europe later chapters and maps are allready planend or prepared to follow once we get there in the timeline of TTL.
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Do you intend to create a sorta centralize organization combining three strains of Buddhism to promote Buddhist policy, missionary activity, religious discourse, restoration of Buddhist sites? I think it will streamline their separate attempt and allow them to operate more efficiently. Along with that they can also promote Japanese policy which will be good thing in long run.
We will see some sects try that but besides the Japanese main State Shinto-Buddhists that aim for such a thing under Japanese guidence/ rule, they Japanese will try to keep them small and rather split so that they provide a cultural/ religious unification ot the C-PS but posess not so much power as to threaten their rule.
When you are going to start writing Indian war? Also if you include few Buddhism related and Japanese espionage updates in India it will be much appreciated.
What is the Japanese view towards Indian Muslims?
Also in canon Netaji was very much admired by the Japanese, and he was given far more authority. Is it same here? How they view him as a person and his goals?
What is the Japanese view towards Indian Muslims?
Also in canon Netaji was very much admired by the Japanese, and he was given far more authority. Is it same here? How they view him as a person and his goals?
1943 so this year of the TL, as Assam-Benghal is majorly Muslim and muslim party dominated, so is the provisional government the Japanese have installed there under Bose (for now only in one major city, but since Bose hasn't warned them about the British counter-offensives into Burma, the Japanese ar forced to push furhter into India to secure Burma, Tibet and Yikoku as well as their whole western flank to southeast asia. That was a gamble by Bose but one that has played of and he will become one of the major Indian heroes and liberty fighters TTL).
Will Japan try to make sure India remain undivided or they will try to divide it. After all nationalists, all want undivided India, Netaji himself want that. Muslims are considered collaborators to Japanese and independence movements. I am sure Buddhists in Japanese military want to secure India to spread Buddhism. Maybe Japan will have a far closer relationship as it will allow them to project power in the middle east and central Asia.
Will netaji start a empire like puyi?
Will netaji start a empire like puyi?
Like China they will try to divide it and furhter split it up so they can rule it better. Strangely enought their Assam-Bengal state will remain Hindu-Muslim undivided for far more longer then the Indian parts reamining in the British Empire (as the Muslims there are a majority and do not fear Hindu dominated democratics therefore). However Japan will try to divide India and split it from British Rule completely even after the End of WW2 for obvious reasons.
How much success will they get? This is not after all warlord china. Social consciousness more or less unified. The propaganda being made solely for a pan Indian state. The main tool that will allow them to give that want a pan Indian state. India can act as bulwark against middle east and spring board for any advancement towards middle east. New ottoman state will want to get land from India so Indians will be far too focused to deal with them. They will need infresture, training and money to deal with migration from middle east. A balkanized India will only weaken such defence from the ottoman empire. Is it not better to have something similar like greater manchukuo? Also Japan already got support from lots of dalits and if they can send lots of colonists there they can intermarry and create loyal group which follow policy of Tokyo in India.
Japanese might fear the indian numbers and potential development once they build them up, therefore spliting them is (in their idea) the best option, but it's not the easiest or wisest one clearly as we will see.
Because the Soviets are nearly finished, their main cities fallen and their army depending on ALleid supplies (or so the Germans belive) truely the Russians lack some oil and other goods and therefore attacking the nearest Allied supply of those (the Middle East from where much goes to the Soviets is not a bad idea).
Chapter 779: National Monarchism: Finnish Wolfgangism
Chapter 779: National Monarchism: Finnish Wolfgangism
Under Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim, the Marshal of Finland the Finnish had opposed the Soviet expansion and aggression against their territory and independence, soon aided by the German Empire and the Axis Central Powers, that the Finnish Kingdom would soon join. Thanks to this protection and the failed support from Britain, France and Sweden (before the Germans occupied it) relations between the Finnish kingdom and the German Empire increased. Then when the Axis Central Powers turned East for the Eastern Crusade against the Soviet Union, Finland was able to retake not only the lost regions, but to capture all of the Kola Peninsula, East Karealia and parts of Ingria to fulfill their ambitions of the Kingdom of Greater Finland. Becoming a co-belligerent of the German Empire, the Allies declared war on the Finnish Kingdom, further driving it into German arms, quickly signing a direct alliance by having Finland join the Axis Central Powers directly. To further increase these Finish-German relations Prince Wolfgang of Hesse-Kassel (or Hesse-Cassel, born 6 November 1896) was the designated Hereditary Prince of the monarchy of Finland (including the irredentist pretension to Estonia and parts of Sweden and Norway), and as such, already called the Crown Prince of Finland officially until 14 December 1918, and also afterwards by some monarchists. Wolfgang was born at Castle Rumpenheim, Offenbach am Main. He was the second-born of a pair of twins, the fourth child and son born to Prince Frederick Charles of Hesse (1868–1940) and Princess Margaret of Prussia (1872–1954). His maternal uncle was the German Emperor William II. Wolfgang's father Frederick Charles of Hesse was elected King of Finland on 9 October 1918, to replace his first cousin once removed, the deposed Russian emperor, Nicholas II, who was titled Grand Duke of Finland. However, Frederick Charles renounced the throne on 14 December 1918, and the title was never actually held by the family.
Still Wolfgang would have been his father's heir as King of Finland instead of his elder twin Prince Philipp of Hesse (1896–1980), apparently because Wolfgang was with his parents in 1918 and ready to travel to Finland, where a wedding to a Finnish lady was reportedly being prepared for the coming Crown Prince. Philipp was on active service and incommunicado at the time. Wolfgang married on 17 September 1924 Princess Marie Alexandra of Baden (1902–1944), daughter of Prince Maximilian of Baden and Princess Marie Louise of Hanover; they had no children. Wolfgang finally became King of Finland in 1942 after the Marshal of Finland Mannheim had agreed to strengthen the Finish-German ties and relations. Wolfgang adopted his nephew, Prince Karl Adolf of Hesse (born 1937), elder son of his younger brother Christoph who was killed in action in 1943. During the Second Great War, King Wilhelm I of Finland would rise to glory when he fulfilled the ambitions of a Greater Finland. After the Second Great War Wilhelm I of Finland would go on and further modernize the newly integrated parts of the now Greater Finnish Kingdom, by building new roads, railways and even new Finnish towns and cities to make these areas Finnish again after the Soviet Union and it's Red Army had deported so many Finnish out of the area during their first attack on Finland in the Winter War. Known as the man who not only expanded the Finnish Kingdom by about 1/3 but also greatly modernized it and brought it into the same league of modern central Europe by modernizing it's infrastructure and industries further. When he died as the most beloved modern Finish Kings in Helsinki on 12 July 1989, King Wolfgang I was the only surviving great-grandchild of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom who had been born in her lifetime, as Victoria died in 1901 when Wolfgang was four years old. His son Wilhelm II would follow him upon the Finish throne a few days later.
Under Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim, the Marshal of Finland the Finnish had opposed the Soviet expansion and aggression against their territory and independence, soon aided by the German Empire and the Axis Central Powers, that the Finnish Kingdom would soon join. Thanks to this protection and the failed support from Britain, France and Sweden (before the Germans occupied it) relations between the Finnish kingdom and the German Empire increased. Then when the Axis Central Powers turned East for the Eastern Crusade against the Soviet Union, Finland was able to retake not only the lost regions, but to capture all of the Kola Peninsula, East Karealia and parts of Ingria to fulfill their ambitions of the Kingdom of Greater Finland. Becoming a co-belligerent of the German Empire, the Allies declared war on the Finnish Kingdom, further driving it into German arms, quickly signing a direct alliance by having Finland join the Axis Central Powers directly. To further increase these Finish-German relations Prince Wolfgang of Hesse-Kassel (or Hesse-Cassel, born 6 November 1896) was the designated Hereditary Prince of the monarchy of Finland (including the irredentist pretension to Estonia and parts of Sweden and Norway), and as such, already called the Crown Prince of Finland officially until 14 December 1918, and also afterwards by some monarchists. Wolfgang was born at Castle Rumpenheim, Offenbach am Main. He was the second-born of a pair of twins, the fourth child and son born to Prince Frederick Charles of Hesse (1868–1940) and Princess Margaret of Prussia (1872–1954). His maternal uncle was the German Emperor William II. Wolfgang's father Frederick Charles of Hesse was elected King of Finland on 9 October 1918, to replace his first cousin once removed, the deposed Russian emperor, Nicholas II, who was titled Grand Duke of Finland. However, Frederick Charles renounced the throne on 14 December 1918, and the title was never actually held by the family.
Still Wolfgang would have been his father's heir as King of Finland instead of his elder twin Prince Philipp of Hesse (1896–1980), apparently because Wolfgang was with his parents in 1918 and ready to travel to Finland, where a wedding to a Finnish lady was reportedly being prepared for the coming Crown Prince. Philipp was on active service and incommunicado at the time. Wolfgang married on 17 September 1924 Princess Marie Alexandra of Baden (1902–1944), daughter of Prince Maximilian of Baden and Princess Marie Louise of Hanover; they had no children. Wolfgang finally became King of Finland in 1942 after the Marshal of Finland Mannheim had agreed to strengthen the Finish-German ties and relations. Wolfgang adopted his nephew, Prince Karl Adolf of Hesse (born 1937), elder son of his younger brother Christoph who was killed in action in 1943. During the Second Great War, King Wilhelm I of Finland would rise to glory when he fulfilled the ambitions of a Greater Finland. After the Second Great War Wilhelm I of Finland would go on and further modernize the newly integrated parts of the now Greater Finnish Kingdom, by building new roads, railways and even new Finnish towns and cities to make these areas Finnish again after the Soviet Union and it's Red Army had deported so many Finnish out of the area during their first attack on Finland in the Winter War. Known as the man who not only expanded the Finnish Kingdom by about 1/3 but also greatly modernized it and brought it into the same league of modern central Europe by modernizing it's infrastructure and industries further. When he died as the most beloved modern Finish Kings in Helsinki on 12 July 1989, King Wolfgang I was the only surviving great-grandchild of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom who had been born in her lifetime, as Victoria died in 1901 when Wolfgang was four years old. His son Wilhelm II would follow him upon the Finish throne a few days later.
Chapter 780: The Manchu Restoration
Chapter 780: The Manchu Restoration
Pujie (Chinese: 溥傑; 16 April 1907 – 14 June 1994) was a Qing dynasty imperial prince of Manchu descent. He was born in the Aisin Gioro clan, the imperial clan of the Qing dynasty. Pujie was the younger brother of Puyi, the last Emperor of China. After the fall of the Qing dynasty, Pujie went to Japan, where he was educated and married to Saga Hiro, a Japanese noblewoman. In 1937, he moved to Manchukuo, where his brother ruled as Emperor under varying degrees of Japanese control during the Chinese Civil War). Pujie's Manchu name was ᡦᡠ ᡤᡳᠶᡝ; Pu-giye, his courtesy name Junzhi, and his art name Bingfan. Zeng Guofan was a source of inspiration for Pujie's art name, Bingfan. Bingfan means "live up to (the legacy of Zeng Guo)fan". Pujie was the second son of Zaifeng (Prince Chun) and his primary consort, Youlan. As a child, he was brought to the Forbidden City in Beijing to be a playmate and classmate to his brother, Puyi. A well-known incident recounted how Puyi threw a tantrum when he saw that the inner lining of one of Pujie's coats was yellow, because yellow was traditionally a color reserved only for the emperor. In 1929, Pujie travelled to Japan and was educated in the Gakushuin Peers' School. He became fluent in Japanese. Later, he enrolled at the Imperial Japanese Army Academy and graduated in July 1935. Pujie was first married in 1924 to a Manchu noblewoman, Tang Shixia, but they had no children. He left his wife behind when he went to Japan, and the marriage was dissolved some years later. After graduating from the Imperial Japanese Army Academy, Pujie agreed to an arranged marriage with a Japanese noblewoman. He selected Saga Hiro, who was a relative of the Japanese imperial family, from a photograph from a number of possible candidates vetted by the Kwantung Army. As Puyi did not have an heir, the wedding had strong political implications, and was aimed at both fortifying relations between the two countries and introducing Japanese blood into the Manchu imperial family. The engagement ceremony took place at the Manchukuo embassy in Tokyo on 2 February 1937 with the official wedding held in the Imperial Army Hall at Kudanzaka, Tokyo, on 3 April. In October, the couple moved to Manchukuo, where Puyi was then the Emperor. As Puyi had no children, Pujie was regarded as first in line to succeed his brother as the emperor of Manchukuo; the Japanese officially proclaimed him the heir presumptive.
However, Pujie was not appointed by his brother as the heir to the throne of the Qing dynasty, as imperial tradition stated that a childless emperor should choose his heir from a subsequent generation instead of from his own generation. While in Manchukuo, Pujie served as honorary head of the Manchukuo Imperial Guards, a position that would later help him during the so called Manchu Restauration, or Manchu Coup. After his brother Puyi's failed 100 Banner Offensive, Pujie sought out alliances to the Kwantung Army, the Manchu People's Political Consulate Conference, the Privy Council, the General Affairs Council and the local Tenkō, former leftists and liberals brainwashed to become Coprospists. As his wife Hiro Saga (嵯峨 浩 Saga Hiro, 16 April 1914 – 20 June 1987) was a Japanese noblewoman and memoir writer, the daughter of Marquis Saneto Saga and a distant relative of Emperor Shōwa. After her marriage to Pujie, she was known as, and identified herself as, Aishin Kakura Hiro (愛新覺羅•浩) or Aixin-Jueluo Hao in Chinese. With his Japanese-Manchu daughters Huisheng (born in 1938) and Husgeng/ Kosei (born in 1940) Pujie was soon the Japanese favored designated next regent for the Empire of Manchuria, especially as his brother Puyi once again refused a Japanese wife and had no kids of his own. Much more pro Japanese then his brother Puyi who was officially killed during a Communist uprising, but secretly imprisoned for life. In what the new Emperor Pujie called the Qing Restoration he promoted Manchu and Japanese language, architecture, culture, tradition and art as well as Shenism, the Manchurian version of Shinto he had helped promote massively even before, while suppressing Han Chinese movements and Pan-Chinese ideas to legitimate his own state and rule. His programs of modernization would earn him the title of Manzhou Emperor (modern Emperor), Xiandai Emperor (modernization Emperor), Kokyo-ka Emperor (industrialization Emperor in Japanese) Gongyehua (industrialization Emperor in Chinese), as he would modernize the Empire of Manchukuo on pair with Chosen and Japan itself, who in return would become as modern as American and European Nations, eventually surpassing them. The modern Manchu Emperor would also make his Empire of Manchuria one of the biggest producers of oil, gas and petroleum inside the Co-Prosperity Sphere (the biggest one in former China even before Yankoku and National Han China) and the rest of the world (within the top 20 oil producing nations).
Pujie (Chinese: 溥傑; 16 April 1907 – 14 June 1994) was a Qing dynasty imperial prince of Manchu descent. He was born in the Aisin Gioro clan, the imperial clan of the Qing dynasty. Pujie was the younger brother of Puyi, the last Emperor of China. After the fall of the Qing dynasty, Pujie went to Japan, where he was educated and married to Saga Hiro, a Japanese noblewoman. In 1937, he moved to Manchukuo, where his brother ruled as Emperor under varying degrees of Japanese control during the Chinese Civil War). Pujie's Manchu name was ᡦᡠ ᡤᡳᠶᡝ; Pu-giye, his courtesy name Junzhi, and his art name Bingfan. Zeng Guofan was a source of inspiration for Pujie's art name, Bingfan. Bingfan means "live up to (the legacy of Zeng Guo)fan". Pujie was the second son of Zaifeng (Prince Chun) and his primary consort, Youlan. As a child, he was brought to the Forbidden City in Beijing to be a playmate and classmate to his brother, Puyi. A well-known incident recounted how Puyi threw a tantrum when he saw that the inner lining of one of Pujie's coats was yellow, because yellow was traditionally a color reserved only for the emperor. In 1929, Pujie travelled to Japan and was educated in the Gakushuin Peers' School. He became fluent in Japanese. Later, he enrolled at the Imperial Japanese Army Academy and graduated in July 1935. Pujie was first married in 1924 to a Manchu noblewoman, Tang Shixia, but they had no children. He left his wife behind when he went to Japan, and the marriage was dissolved some years later. After graduating from the Imperial Japanese Army Academy, Pujie agreed to an arranged marriage with a Japanese noblewoman. He selected Saga Hiro, who was a relative of the Japanese imperial family, from a photograph from a number of possible candidates vetted by the Kwantung Army. As Puyi did not have an heir, the wedding had strong political implications, and was aimed at both fortifying relations between the two countries and introducing Japanese blood into the Manchu imperial family. The engagement ceremony took place at the Manchukuo embassy in Tokyo on 2 February 1937 with the official wedding held in the Imperial Army Hall at Kudanzaka, Tokyo, on 3 April. In October, the couple moved to Manchukuo, where Puyi was then the Emperor. As Puyi had no children, Pujie was regarded as first in line to succeed his brother as the emperor of Manchukuo; the Japanese officially proclaimed him the heir presumptive.
However, Pujie was not appointed by his brother as the heir to the throne of the Qing dynasty, as imperial tradition stated that a childless emperor should choose his heir from a subsequent generation instead of from his own generation. While in Manchukuo, Pujie served as honorary head of the Manchukuo Imperial Guards, a position that would later help him during the so called Manchu Restauration, or Manchu Coup. After his brother Puyi's failed 100 Banner Offensive, Pujie sought out alliances to the Kwantung Army, the Manchu People's Political Consulate Conference, the Privy Council, the General Affairs Council and the local Tenkō, former leftists and liberals brainwashed to become Coprospists. As his wife Hiro Saga (嵯峨 浩 Saga Hiro, 16 April 1914 – 20 June 1987) was a Japanese noblewoman and memoir writer, the daughter of Marquis Saneto Saga and a distant relative of Emperor Shōwa. After her marriage to Pujie, she was known as, and identified herself as, Aishin Kakura Hiro (愛新覺羅•浩) or Aixin-Jueluo Hao in Chinese. With his Japanese-Manchu daughters Huisheng (born in 1938) and Husgeng/ Kosei (born in 1940) Pujie was soon the Japanese favored designated next regent for the Empire of Manchuria, especially as his brother Puyi once again refused a Japanese wife and had no kids of his own. Much more pro Japanese then his brother Puyi who was officially killed during a Communist uprising, but secretly imprisoned for life. In what the new Emperor Pujie called the Qing Restoration he promoted Manchu and Japanese language, architecture, culture, tradition and art as well as Shenism, the Manchurian version of Shinto he had helped promote massively even before, while suppressing Han Chinese movements and Pan-Chinese ideas to legitimate his own state and rule. His programs of modernization would earn him the title of Manzhou Emperor (modern Emperor), Xiandai Emperor (modernization Emperor), Kokyo-ka Emperor (industrialization Emperor in Japanese) Gongyehua (industrialization Emperor in Chinese), as he would modernize the Empire of Manchukuo on pair with Chosen and Japan itself, who in return would become as modern as American and European Nations, eventually surpassing them. The modern Manchu Emperor would also make his Empire of Manchuria one of the biggest producers of oil, gas and petroleum inside the Co-Prosperity Sphere (the biggest one in former China even before Yankoku and National Han China) and the rest of the world (within the top 20 oil producing nations).
For comparison of Manchruian oil reserves OTL:
A chapter about their discovery and use will follow soon. ;D
A chapter about their discovery and use will follow soon. ;D
I'm actually curious to see what a modern Empire of Manchukuo would look like and what kind of identity its people would developed, being heavily Japanized and having to deal with the fact that their country is the product of Japanese aggression and that it was essentially founded as a puppet state.