Japan (Advancement)

The Empire is a large nation in Asia, it has land borders with the Confederation of China, Mongolia and Great Buryatia. It also has maratime borders with Siam and New Westphalia and has colonys throughout the solar system.

Imperial Restoration
Emperor Go-Daigo restored the imperial house to power in 1333 in a revolution. He quickly removed the power from the Shogunate and the daimyo and restored power to a civilian government. To start with he striped all power from the military and set up a new panel of advisors to act as the imperial court. This court was made up of those who had supported Go-Daigo's revolution but advised him that an elected body would bring more stability to the nation. Therefore Go-Daigo set up a new panel called the Diet that would be elected by anyone who owned land, he was not bound to listen to the Diet but it did give him access to the views of the nation. This system has continued since then although the emperors power has decreased while the Diets has increased.

1st Imperial Expansion
Between 1333 and 1600 the Japanese Emperor (With the advise of the Diet) invaded Korea and Taiwan. It developed strong trading links with western powers such as Spain and Sweden. From them they were able to combine Japanese ingenuity with western developments to modernise there military and the Japanese Navy and Army were soon able to secure posistions in Korea and Taiwan after which they finaly conquered both regions.

The end of the Imperial Monarchy
When the Diet tried to force through a piece of legislation that would have granted suferage to all males Emperor Go-Yōzei chose to exercise his right to veto it, somthing that had not been done since the days of Emperor Go-Hanazono. In response to this the Diet asked for a referendum on the Emperors power. The Japanese constitution had stated that refrendums had to be allowed to go ahead by the Emperor and that he would have to abide by it. Eventualy the resolts came back in favour of the Emperors power to being limited to Strongly advising the Diet which was a complete reversal of its original task.

2nd Japanese Empire
After WWI the Japanese Empire was granted the opotunity to expand its empire and the Diet passed an act that asked the IJN,JA,IAF to increase there size and invaded Manchuria. The war was a quick and sudden victory for the Japanese Empire when it expand its size by a over half.

Space Exploration
Japan was one of the first powesr to reach the stars lauching its first satalites in the 1790's and putting a man in space a few years later. In 1800 the Empire put a man on the moon and claimed an area of it for Japan, it the folowing one hundred years Japan built its first moon base and serveral space stations in preparation for a mission to Mars in the 20th century. In 1905 Japanese uchūhikōshi (Astronauts) landed on mars's moons and on the planet itself. Both the moons and the planet have been in japanese control ever since.