The Imperial State of Japan (Japanese: 日本, Nippon or Nihon, and formally 日本国) is an island country in East Asia, located in the northwest Pacific Ocean. It is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, and extends from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north toward the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south. Part of the Ring of Fire, Japan spans an archipelago of 6852 islands covering 377,975 square kilometers (145,937 sq mi); the five main islands are Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu, and Okinawa. Tokyo is Japan's capital and largest city; other major cities include Yokohama, Osaka, Nagoya, Sapporo, Fukuoka, Kobe, and Kyoto.
Japan is the eleventh-most populous country in the world, as well as one of the most densely populated and urbanized. About three-fourths of the country's terrain is mountainous, concentrating its population of 125.36 million on narrow coastal plains. Japan is divided into 47 administrative prefectures and eight traditional regions. The Greater Tokyo Area is the most populous metropolitan area in the world, with more than 37.4 million residents.
Japan is Southeast of it's Puppet States; The Kingdoms of Korea, Manchukuo and Transamur, East of the China and Northeast of Taiwan.
History[]
Early History[]
Japan has been inhabited since the Upper Paleolithic period (30,000 BC), though the first written mention of the archipelago appears in a Chinese chronicle finished in the 2nd century AD. Between the 4th and 9th centuries, the kingdoms of Japan became unified under an emperor and the imperial court based in Heian-kyō. Beginning in the 12th century, political power was held by a series of military dictators (shōgun) and feudal lords (daimyō), and enforced by a class of warrior nobility (samurai). After a century-long period of civil war, the country was reunified in 1603 under the Tokugawa shogunate, which enacted an isolationist foreign policy. In 1854, a United States fleet forced Japan to open trade to the West, which led to the end of the shogunate and the restoration of imperial power in 1868. In the Meiji period, the Empire of Japan adopted a Western-modeled constitution and pursued a program of industrialization and modernization. In 1937, Japan invaded China; in 1941, it entered World War II as an Axis power. After suffering defeat in the Pacific War and two atomic bombings, Japan surrendered in 1945 and came under a seven-year Allied occupation, during which it adopted a new constitution. Under the 1947 constitution, Japan has maintained a unitary parliamentary constitutional monarchy with a bicameral legislature, the National Diet.
Japan is a great power and a member of numerous international organizations, including the United Nations (since 1956), the OECD, and the Group of Seven. Although it has renounced its right to declare war, the country maintains Self-Defense Forces that rank as one of the world's strongest Armed Forces.
World War III[]
Japan had conquered the unstable Korea with the Manchuria and Vladivostok regions of China and Russia to gain their resources and prevent those resources from falling into the hands of the communists and give those resources to Taiwanese rebels who are fighting against Soviet and Chinese occupiers fighting each other and help liberate east Asia from Communism. Japan had restored the Qing Dynasty, Yi Dynasty and the Romanov Dynasty as rulers of a group of Satellite States who can wage war on the communists and defend Japan so Japan can flourish as a nation without waging war on people.
After World War III[]
Japan has paranoia of Imperial Iran's rise to power as a great power and even condemned their invasion of India due to the fact Japan had great relations with India. Japan also has paranoia of Imperial Iran having the same aspirations as Japan itself during WWII especially with Iran's war hungry desire to become the "Greatest Civilization". Japan despite it being a pacifist nation now has to become a great power and to become the master and peacekeeper of South and East Asia due to the fact America is no more, especially if it has to strengthen it's military.
Government[]
Japan is a unitary state and constitutional monarchy in which the power of the Emperor is limited to a ceremonial role. Executive power is instead wielded by the Prime Minister of Japan and his Cabinet, whose sovereignty is vested in the Japanese people. Naruhito is the Emperor of Japan, having succeeded his father Akihito upon his accession to the Chrysanthemum Throne in 2019.
Japan's legislative organ is the National Diet, a bicameral parliament. It consists of a lower House of Representatives with 465 seats, elected by popular vote every four years or when dissolved, and an upper House of Councillors with 245 seats, whose popularly-elected members serve six-year terms. There is universal suffrage for adults over 18 years of age, with a secret ballot for all elected offices. The prime minister as the head of government has the power to appoint and dismiss Ministers of State, and is appointed by the emperor after being designated from among the members of the Diet. Fumio Kishida is Japan's prime minister; he took office after winning the 2021 Liberal Democratic Party leadership election.
Order of Succession[]
The Order of Succession of Japan is a Saliac order of succession and it was since the establishment of the Japanese Empire. Japanese Princes due to this have free reign to marry any woman they fall in love with and get away with marriage, whereas women are only allowed to marry royals within the Imperial family and any Princess not married to a royal shall give up her titles and membership in the Imperial family unless they divorce their husband. If a Princess divorces her non-royal husband, then she is forbidden custody of her children as they are part of her husband's family.
When the 1947 Imperial Household law was drafted by the government of Shigeru Yoshida, Prime Minister during the American occupation by the Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers, membership in the Imperial Family to the Emperor Hirohito's immediate family, his widowed mother, and the families of his three brothers. The shinnōke and the ōke, which had traditionally been a pool of potential successors to the throne if the main imperial family failed to produce an heir were abolished. The fifty-one members of the eleven cadet branches renounced their Imperial status; and they were formally removed from the Imperial household register and became ordinary citizens on October 14, 1947. However after the fall of America and the monarchist revolution, the Japanese erased the part of the law that abolished the shinnōke and the ōke and allowed them to return.
Cabinet[]
- Naruhito - Emperor
- Fumio Kishida - Prime Minister
- Yoshimasa Hayashi - Foreign Minister
- Shunichi Suzuki - Finances Minister
- Koichi Hagiuda - Industry Minister
- Nobuo Kishi - Minister of Defense
- Yasushi Kaneko - Minister of Intelligence
- General Kōji Yamazaki - Chief of Staff
- General Yoshihide Yoshida - Chief of Army
- Admiral Hiroshi Yamamura - Chief of Navy
- Air Marshall Shunji Izutsu - Chief of Air Force
Military[]
Japan is the second-highest-ranked Asian country in the Global Peace Index 2020. Japan maintains one of the largest military budgets of any country in the world. The country's military (the Japan Self-Defense Forces) is restricted by Article 9 of the Japanese Constitution, which renounces Japan's right to declare war or use military force in international disputes. The military is governed by the Ministry of Defense, and primarily consists of the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force, the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force, and the Japan Air Self-Defense Force. The deployment of troops to Iraq and Afghanistan marked the first overseas use of Japan's military since World War II.
The Government of Japan has been making changes to its security policy which include the establishment of the National Security Council, the adoption of the National Security Strategy, and the development of the National Defense Program Guidelines. In May 2014, Prime Minister Shinzō Abe said Japan wanted to shed the passiveness it has maintained since the end of World War II and take more responsibility for regional security. Recent tensions, particularly with North Korea and China, have reignited the debate over the status of the JSDF and its relation to Japanese society.