Alternative History
Alternative History
State of Japan
日本国
Timeline: New Union

OTL equivalent: The Habomai Islands, Japan, and Shikotan.
Flag Coat of Arms
Flag Imperial Seal
Location of Japan
Location of Japan
Anthem "Kimigayo"
Capital Tokyo
Other cities Nagoya, Osaka, Yokohama
Language
  official
 
Japanese
  others Chinese, English, Korean
Religion
  main
 
Buddhism and Shinto
  others Christianity, Taoism
Demonym Japanese
Government Unitary parliamentary constitutional monarchy
  Legislature National Diet
Emperor Akihito
Established February 11, 660 BC
Currency Yen (¥) (JPY)
Time Zone JST (UTC+9)
Calling Code +81
Internet TLD .jp
Organizations UN

The State of Japan (Japanese: 日本国, Nippon-koku), colloquially known as Japan (日本, Nippon), is an island nation located in East Asia. Japan is a constitutional monarchy headed by an Emperor. Japan sided with the Axis Powers during World War II, in which the Empire of Japan was able to expand across Asia and Oceania. The war came to an end in Auguast 1945 following the dropping of American nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki (the only instances in which nuclear weapons were used against a nation). Japan would gradually emerge from the war as an American-backed capitalist nation during the Cold War, with the Japanese economy becoming one of the largest on Earth.

Following the end of the Cold War, relations between Japan and the Soviet Union began to greatly improve. A formal peace treaty between the two nations took place in 1993. As part of the treaty, the Soviet Union transferred sovereignty over the disputed islands of Habomai and Shikotan, with Japan relinquishing their claims to Iturup and Kunashir. The USSR also allows visa-free access to the remaining Kuril Islands to Japanese fishermen.
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