The flag of Japan today
Japan is an island nation located in East Asia, off the coast of mainland Asia. Currently Japan is a parliamentary democracy. The extent of the country covers four main islands including Honshu, Kyushu, Shikoku and Hokkaido along with some processions in the Pacific Ocean including Okinawa. Today Japan is the third largest economy in the world (fourth by PPP) after the United States, and China. Japan also enjoys the highest life expectancy and one of the world's lowest homicide rates. Historically, religions such as the Asia based Buddhism and the native Shinto religion were adhered by the majority of the population. Despite enjoying success, Japan endures modern problems such as depopulation, a high national debt and vulnerability to earthquakes.
Japan is also one of most common countries featured on the Alt History Wiki, for reasons including but not limited to the memory of Japan's bid for conquest in World War II, Japan's modern day prosperity, the famous Sengoku Jidai period, and a general interest in Japan by the Alt History Wiki's users. Come here to post your fictional alternative versions of Japan and be creative!
Timelines where Japan is the POD[]
- 1941: Success
- 1995: The Armageddon
- A Cross Over Japan
- Asia for the Asiatics!
- Banzai for Japan!
- Cherry, Plum, and Chrysanthemum
- Divided Japan
- Hail The Shogun
- Mario Without... Yoshi - Both characters were Japanese creations.
- Nihon no heiwa
- No Sonic - Sonic the Hedgehog himself, even after cancellation ITTL, is/was a Japanese creation.
- Roses of Kirishitan
- Satomi Maiden ~ Third Power
- Socialist Samurai Timeline
- Toyotomi Japan (joint with Korea)
- Victory To The Rising Sun
- Tenka Fubu
- Buddha’s and Laozi’s Warriors
Timelines in the multiverse where Japan is featured[]
- East Japan (French Brazil)
- East Japan (Nuclear Apocalypse)
- Empire of Japan (Axis World)
- Empire of Japan (Central Victory)
- Empire of Japan (Concert of Europe)
- Empire of Japan (Colony Crisis Averted)
- Empire of Japan (A Different History)
- Empire of Japan (EternalFreedom)
- Empire of Japan (Hitler's Win)
- Empire of Japan (Pauvre Monde)
- Empire of Japan (Pax Americana)
- Empire of Japan (Split)
- Empire of Japan (Twilight of a New Era)
- Empire of Japan (Victory To The Rising Sun)
- Empire of the Rising Sun (1941: Success)
- Empire of the Rising Sun (The Empire of Atlantis)
- Empire Of The Rising Sun (North American War)
- Japan (1756 World)
- Japan (1861: Historical Failing)
- Japan (1879: Agreement)
- Japan (1983: Doomsday)
- Japan (1995: The Armageddon)
- Japan (Advancement)
- Japan (Alternity)
- Japan (An Independent in 2000)
- Japan (Apocalypse: 2012)
- Japan (At the End of Spring)
- Japan (Aztec Empire)
- Japan (A Cross Over Japan)
- Japan (A Different 1999)
- Japan (A Brighter Millennium Dawn)
- Japan (Broken Ice)
- Japan (Byzantine Glory)
- Japan (Central World)
- Japan (Cold Phoney War)
- Japan (A Confederate Victory)
- Japan (Differently)
- Japan (Double Collapse)
- Japan (Eastern Awakening)
- Japan (Fascist Britain)
- Japan (Fatherlands)
- Japan (Federalist Failure)
- Japan (The Fork in Time)
- Japan (Franz's World)
- Japan (French Trafalgar, British Waterloo)
- Japan (From Sea to Shining Sea)
- Japan (Great Global War)
- Japan (Here we go again)
- Japan (How many Sixes does Adolf Nazi have to Roll?)
- Japan (Joan of What?)
- Japan (The Kaiser Triumphant)
- Japan (The Kalmar Union)
- Japan (Long live the Qing)
- Japan (The Many Nations of North America)
- Japan (Medieval World)
- Japan (Misconceived Malaproper Mania)
- Japan (Multilateral Cold War)
- Japan (Napoleon's World)
- Japan (Nazi Nukes)
- Japan (New Union)
- Japan (No Manifest Destiny)
- Japan (No Napoleon)
- Japan (Nuclear Apocalypse)
- Japan (OTL Doubled)
- Japan (OTL Quadrupled)
- Japan (OTL Tripled)
- Japan (Pharaonic Survival)
- Japan (Proxima Centauri)
- Japan (Pure Arabica)
- Japan (Rebellion of 61)
- Japan (Russian America)
- Japan (Satomi Maiden ~ Third Power)
- Japan (Sacred White Europe)
- Japan (Space Race Didn't End)
- Japan (Think Before You Act)
- Japan (Treaty of Friendship, Commerce, and Navigation)
- Japan (The True Korea)
- Japan (Twilight of a New Era)
- Japan (Vegetarian World)
- Japan (Victory To The Rising Sun)
- Japan (Venetian-Italian Supremacy)
- Japan (Viva California)
- Japan (Vive l'Emperor)
- Japan (Washington Shot at Murdering Town!)
- Japan (A World Divided)
- Japanese Empire (DoH)
- Japanese Empire (Fatherlands)
- Japanese Empire (The Kaiser's New Clothes)
- Japanese Empire (Under the Reich)
- Japanese Republican Empire (Forested Bosworth)
- Japanese Shogunate (Superpowers)
- Nihon (Cabotia and Brasil)
- Nihon Teikoku (Heute Europa)
- Nippon (Chaos)
- North Japan (A-651)
- North Japan (Atlantic Iron Curtain)
- South Japan (A-651)
- South Japan (Atlantic Iron Curtain)
- State of Japan (1995: The Armageddon)
- The Empire of Japan (L'Uniona Homanus)
- The Japanese Empire (Alternate Cold War)
- Tokugawa Shogunate (Hail The Shogun)
- West Japan (French Brazil)
- West Japan (Nuclear Apocalypse)
- Yevraziya (Parallelity of Parallelities) (joint with Kyivan Rus (OTL: Ukraine) and Kazakhstan, but without the Ryukyu Islands)
- Japan (A New Era)
Broken, Occupied and/or Dissolved Japans (i.e. timelines where Japan itself, or at least much of mainland (main-island?) Japan, is either disunited, nonexistent, or subject to another country without being joint with other countries)[]
- Russian Empire (Different Civilization)
- Russian Empire (Generally Rewritten)