Timeline 191 - Random Events Post Second Great War

No, because the boundry between North and South Japan was actually north of Tokyo, but south of Nagano.
But there's two question that didn't get answered is:

A: Were there celebration of the Japanese people during the Reunification of Japan?

B; Whatever happened to the European monarchy after the Second Great war?
 
So were their celebrations after Japanese people after they finally got unified like Germany in 1989?
In Northern Japan, following the reunification there were a lot of official ceremonies, and reuniting of divided families, but for the most part there weren't many spontaenous street celebrations. In the South there were firework displays and parades, but even in the south, the street celebrations were kept to a minimum. Most people watched diplomats signing documents on television, and then went back to work the following Monday.
 
Whatever happened to the European monarchy after the Second Great war?
Those which managed to survive were reduced to ceremonial figureheads by the second half of the twentieth century. The role of Kaiser still exists, but he really doesn't wield any more authority than does a modern British monarch in our timeline.
 
Speaking of Reunion the two Japan's, is Northern Japan going to be a big problem to the South?
Because an example is after Germany got reunited the eastern part that were East Germany has a poorer and undeveloped economy compared to Western Germany.
Does this same problem carried to this Japan 🗾
 
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Speaking of Reunion the two Japan's, is Northern Japan going to be a big problem to the South?
Because an example is after Germany got reunited the eastern part that were East Germany has a poorer and undeveloped economy compared to Western Germany.
Does this same problem carried to this Japan 🗾
Perhaps somewhat mindful of the missteps carried out by the United States during its earliest phases of annexing the defeated Confederacy, the leadership of South Japan implemented a phased merger of the two Japans, as to minimize economic and cultural dislocation. Although technically part of the Republic of Japan on the morning February 14, 1987, the change wasn't immediately obvious to the average resident of North Japan, and due to the secretive nature of the North Japanese government, the average person in North Japan wasn't even aware that changes were afoot until just a month or two before the final merger happened.

Nearly everyone working within the national government of North Japan lost their positions of authority, upon the merger, but these people were guaranteed lifelong pensions and immunity from prosecution within secret provisions of the merger agreement. Although the national government quietly went out of business, for a time, the Republic of Japan kept local North Japanese prefecture governments largely intact for the purpose of implementing the necessary changes throughout society and industry. Since lower level North Japanese government officials were not guaranteed immunity from prosecution, most were eager to implement the changes dictated by their new bosses from Tokyo.

To the average citizen of North Japan tuning into The People's Central Television Network news on the morning of February 14, 1987, few things would have seemed different from the day before. Except maybe the news anchors are dressed in a slightly more liberal fashion, there is a strange watermark logo in the lower right corner of the screen indicating a new partnership with the NHK network of South Japan. The next noticeable change might be an influx of consumer products on the shelves of stores occurring gradually over the next few weeks. Following that, there would be a gradual increase of Toyotas, Suzuikis, and Hondas on the streets of Northern Japan.

Also, while most units of the North Japanese Army were disarmed and assigned to other duties, the border troops of the North Japanese Army were rearmed with more modern equipment from the Republic of Japan, and were instructed to maintain the old border between North and South Japan. Officials in Tokyo were uncertain how the North Japanese populace would react to their new found freedom, and they feared the possibility that hundreds of thousands of North Japanese citizens might suddenly come flooding across the border in search of a better life in the South. It is a full two years before the border is totally dismantled, and Japanese citizens can travel freely between both halves of their formerly divided country.

Immediately preceding merger, the military forces of North Japan were put under the direct control of Republic of Japan commanders, but there was not a direct attempt to merge the two forces together. For a time, the military forces of North Japan were allowed to exist as a disarmed force as most of their equipment was sold off to developing countries in Africa and Latin America. It was agreed that one of the best ways to fight unemployment in the north would be to keep the disarmed North Japanese military in uniform for up two years, and to assign them minor details such as fire-fighting, mine-clearing, and other types of community based work. North Japanese military personnel wishing to remain in uniform beyond the official disbandment date of February 15, 1989 were required to pass an aptitude test, attend Republic of Japan basic training, and to swear an oath of loyalty to the Republic of Japan. In the end, less than a third of North Japan's fighting force ended up serving long term within the forces of the Republic of Japan.

Meanwhile, upon the merger, the government of the Republic of Japan took ownership of all state owned enterprises which has previously been owned by the People's Democratic Republic of Japan. These enterprises included such heavy industries as mines, steel foundries, ship-yards, and munition factories. However, rather than selling off such enterprises at pennies on the dollar, the Republic of Japan kept their newly acquired factories operating at an idle pace to avoid layoffs. Those industrial facilities which could be quickly retooled were given free-trade status, and were allowed to operate as a private business, even though for the time being, they were still state owned enterprises. For example, the Nissan plant located in Fukishima was put to work producing low-cost tractors for export, and it also produced replacement parts for the North Japanese tanks which has been shipped to developing countries around the world. The revenue from such enterprises were used to help pay for upgrades to nearby infrastructure within the surrounding free-trade zone. Eventually, by the end of the century, the Japanese government divested itself of its North Japan assets by selling them off to private investors at market prices.

This isn't to say that there wasn't some economic and societal dislocation associated with the merger between the two Japans. Industrialists in the South bristled at the free-trade zones established around certain areas in Northern Japan, and many complained that state owned enterprises were being given unfair market advantages. Also, the former People's Democratic Republic of Japan industrial facilities never earned quite enough money to completely pay for the rebuilding of Northern Japan, they did help to off set the expense. Additionally, in spite of the governments best efforts, unemployment surged in Northern Japan during the first decade following the merger. This was mainly due to former military personnel and munitions workers who could not find comparable employment following the merger.

Unfortunately, this high unemployment helped to create a fertile breading ground for the Yakuza of Southern Japan to exploit. An officer who once served in the North Japanese Army might find himself serving a few years later as a mid-level functionary with the Yakuza. For a short time quasi legal casinos, karaoke clubs, and bikini bars cropped up as city officials turned a blind eye. However, this trend gradually following the turn of the century.

One of the most unusual things to come out of the merger between North and South Japan is the Worker's Paradise resort village covering roughly nine hundred hectares just outside of Sendai in Japan. For a fee, residents can enjoy faux communistic style architecture, mock communal living, fake state owned grocery stores which sell Dr. Hopper. The staff of the Worker's Paradise resort wear uniforms reminiscent of those worn by the police and military of the People's Democratic Republic of Japan. However, the loudspeakers mounted on the street corners tend to play easy-listening music from the US, instead of patriotic music from North Japan, the military skirts worn by the female staff members are a bit more revealing than those worn by actual female soldiers of the North Japanese Army, and if anyone has a sharp enough eye, they might notice that the tires mounted on the huge black Nissan Premier limousines are actually Toyo Brand tires which have been repainted to look like North Japanese Red Star brand tires.
 
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What are the potrayals and views on the Previous Regime of the Japanese Empire?
In the communistic People's Democratic Republic of Japan, the imperial expansionist era was looked upon as thoroughly corrupt period in which peasants were treated as valueless cannon fodder and beasts of burden. Furthermore, the Japanese Trotskyists ruling in Nagano saw a direct cause in effect between Japan's Bushido traditions, and the terrible war crimes which committed by imperial troops throughout Asia and the Pacific basin. Thus the People's Democratic Republic of Japan undertook an effort to remove all things which were deemed traditional, and to remake Japanese society and culture under Marxist-Trotskyist theory. Just as in China, as sort of revolution took place as students went about the countryside smashing relics of the past. Likewise, the government of the People's Democratic Republic of Japan did not initially accept any blame or guilt for the war-crimes which were carried about by imperial forces.

In the South, however, things were somewhat different. Following the end of the Japanese Civil War, and the partitioning of the home islands in 1954, the South Japanese at first tried to hold onto their old system of imperial government, but they soon learned that they would not receive any support from the US and Australia unless political reforms were made. Thus Southern Japan was reorganized into the Republic of Japan, and the emperor was reduced in status to a mere religious figurehead without any constitutional power. The agreements granting the Republic of Japan diplomatic recognition called for the head of the new government to make an official apology to all of the victims of Imperial Japan's past aggression, but the agreement did not call for the South Japanese to pay reparations. The remarks made by South Japan's new Prime Minister, Shigeru Yoshida, drew muted scorn from the populace of South Japan, who still saw the imperial era in a positive light, but they were widely received throughout much of the rest of the world.

As the people of North Japan attempted to erase all memories of the imperial era from their collective memories, the people of South Japan began to openly romanticize about the Meiji Era, and to some minor degree, about Japan's earlier military adventurism into Mainland Asia. This many took the form of television movies and books about a an idealized imperial Japanese soldier who has torn feeling about his country's incursion into China, but still manages to find the motivation to fight against the brutal Chinese Communists. Eventually, such stylized dramas would reach the attention of both the Australians and the Chinese Maoist government in Beijing.

In Australia the outrage would usually take the form of local politician making a statement about the people of South Japan were never really held accountable for their war-crimes, and now they are celebrating their blood-lust in cinema. The usual result would be to have a spokesman from the South Japanese Embassy issue a statement reminding everyone how the Republic of Japan is an ally in the fight for democracy, and that the people and government of the Republic of Japan deeply regret the tragedies which were committed during the imperial era. If such a statement would fail to squash the latest outbreak of anti-Japanese sentiment, then the South Japanese would buy local Australian bonds, and then someone from the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs would make an appearance, and politely tell everyone to shut their gobs.

However, the South Japanese would persist with the peculiar irksome school books, movies, and television shows, followed by a round of apologies, and overseas investment, followed by more romanticized worshiping of the past.

The People's Republic of China maintained a very dim view of Japan's imperial era, and they continued to use Japan's actions during the imperial era as an excuse to saber rattle, and to keep anti-Japanese sentiment alive well into the twenty first-century. Although relations between the Maoist People's Republic of China and the Trotskyist People's Democratic Republic of Japan were never very cordial, the Chinese were always very careful to explain that it was the Republic of Japan which deserved to be held accountable for the war crimes committed by Imperial Japanese soldiers, because in the view of the Maoists, the Republic of Japan was really nothing but a thinly disguised rump-state continuation of Imperial Japan, and it would be just a matter of time before the South Japanese, and their US allies, launched a renewed attack upon the rest of Asia.
 
I don't really know. My sense is that the US killed a lot of Native Americans after the War of Succession, and maybe there aren't many of them left in most areas. Also, some tribes appear to have sided with the Confederacy, so I'm guessing that relations would be difficult for many years to come.
I think this video will help you understanding about Native Americans in your work
 
Do you want to rewrite your TL191 or is it perfect as way it is?
I think that I'll leave the timeline at the start of this thread as it is. It isn't really meant to perfect, it's just meant to entertain, and maybe provide a glimpse of what might of happened after In at the Death. Also, I've been working on a completely separate timeline, which also takes place after In at the Death, but in this second timeline, events will unfold somewhat differently.
 
I think that I'll leave the timeline at the start of this thread as it is. It isn't really meant to perfect, it's just meant to entertain, and maybe provide a glimpse of what might of happened after In at the Death. Also, I've been working on a completely separate timeline, which also takes place after In at the Death, but in this second timeline, events will unfold somewhat differently.
I didn't provide you with some videos about the American Indian to understand them better in your TL191, are you still watching them?
 
I didn't provide you with some videos about the American Indian to understand them better in your TL191, are you still watching them?
Yes I did watch the videos, and I learned about these same things many years ago when I was in school.
 
Yes I did watch the videos, and I learned about these same things many years ago when I was in school.
All right but are you okay to finally answer my question about what the situation lived in the Native americans and the US government in your world?
 
All right but are you okay to finally answer my question about what the situation lived in the Native americans and the US government in your world?
Well, it seems as though there really isn't enough information in the later books to say for certain. But if I had to guess, I suppose that after the Confederacy had been completely reabsorbed, maybe the US government would grant them some sort of semi-autonomous region out in Utah or one of the other lower population western states. Maybe some of the Native Americans might not trust the US government, and they might migrate to Canada as well. I don't think that there would be a Native American uprising in the second half of the twientieth century.
 
Were there any stereotypes of the Mormons in your TL191? Like what a potrayal as still friendly happy religious people or something else
 
Were there any stereotypes of the Mormons in your TL191? Like what a potrayal as still friendly happy religious people or something else
Probably the Mormons had to endure some stereotypes during the decades following the war. During the 1950s, 60s, & 70s children's cartoons which had been made earlier during the war often depicted a thinly disguised villain character, which was meant represent a deceitful and treacherous Mormon from during the war period. However, these cartoon largely disappeared by the late 1970s, partly because they were so out of date that modern children could no longer be entertained by them, and partly because a number of Mormon war heroes emerged during the Japanese War. Additionally, in the years after the Second Great War, Mormons were sometimes looked upon with suspicion by the fellow Americans, and for a time, urban legends circulated regarding a secret Mormon spy ring operating in conjunction with Mormons who had fled to other parts of the world. No evidence of a Mormon spy ring was ever uncovered, and by the time the late 70s and early 80s rolled around, Mormons were seen as a curious group of people who led a strict life style, but they were no longer seeing as deviant, or undesirable as they had been during the war.
 
What is The stereotype of Southerners in your TL191? There's only three wars they fight with the CSA especially with the last one causing numerous deaths and Capital being nuke. ... . . . . . Let's just say it won't be nice
 
What is The stereotype of Southerners in your TL191? There's only three wars they fight with the CSA especially with the last one causing numerous deaths and Capital being nuke. ... . . . . . Let's just say it won't be nice
During the first eight to ten years following the end of the war, the Average US citizen begins to view the people living in the defeated Confederacy with less and less hostility. This is due to a number of reasons; There hasn't been a major uprising in the defeated Confederacy since 1946, and the US government officially declares the Freedom Party resistance movement to be defeated in 1950. Following that, steps were made to ensure that US school children were no longer being taught that the people living in the New South were nothing but simple-minded monsters, inclined to follow the orders of a madman without so much the blink of an eye. Likewise, beginning in the early 1950s Hollywood producers are told to tone their portrayals depicting Southerners as being sub-human or slow. The last former Confederate state is readmitted into the US in 1957, and by this time there is an entire generation of young adults living throughout the New South who have been educated in a school system which was overseen by US occupation authorities. - Also, by this time the standard of living in the New South is beginning to catch up with the rest of the United States, and few people living in the New South long for the old days of the Confederacy. By the early 1960s most Americans living outside the boundaries of the former defeated Confederacy consider the people living in the New South to be solid US citizens. In the coming years, people from the New South will distinguish themselves in arts, sports, and politics. But, there is a minor problem. Throughout the late 1940s and 1950s, US run school boards in the defeated Confederacy put a heavy emphasis upon nonviolence, and demilitarization. As a result, later on when the US faced the possibility of an armed conflict with Trotsky styled Communism in Alaska, Japan, and elsewhere, many people living in the New South thought that war should be avoided at all costs, and that the Reds (as the were called) could be negotiated with. This situation led to the election of President William Carter in 1972, with his disastrous campaign promise to keep the US out of a war in Northeast Asia. Between 1965 and the end of the century, many people living throughout the rest of the country might tend to view the people of the New South as being just ever so slightly too liberal, too pacifistic, too intellectual, and maybe as in the case of President Carter, too idealistic. For the most part however, they are not viewed as people trying to regain their independence by any means.
 
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