Shinomiya affairs

The Shinomiya affairs, also known as the Shinomiya-Tokyo affair, the Affair of April 5, 2015 and the Scandal of April 5, 2015. and codenamed Operation Into the Shadows by the NSC's Federal Intelligence Service, is a national and political scandal in Japan that occurred five days after the One Sith War victory party. The Shinomiya affairs started 10 years after the War of the Titans, started by Gan'an Shinomiya, then head of the Shinomiya Group at that time, who signed a series of shady deals with other Japanese corporations. The Shinomiya affairs is exposed when a rag-tag team of Japanese police officers, NSC military personnel, JSDF personnel and Merdinan Black Guard soldiers exposed the knee-deep corruption Gan'an built over the years with the help of Admiral Borealia, who is already involved in the Lord Admiral's investigations over rumored reports of corruption in Japan.
The resulting exposure led to the resignation of Prime Minister Shinzo Mori, elected two years before, the collapse of the Shinomiya Group, and the subsequent downfall of the National Liberal Party of Japan and collapse of the Japanese economy. However, the scandal have led to Grand Marshal Borealis III's establishment of a military-guided democratic government, one where Shinzo Abe of the Liberal Democratic Party is heading.
==Participants and parties==
===Watchdog Group===
*Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department: The Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department uncovered the corruption during its investigation into the murder of a factory owner, which led to their discovery of a network of intrigue that encompassed not just the Greater Tokyo Area but also the entirety of Japan.
*Novayan Stellar Commonwealth: While the entire NSC isn't involved, only several NSC military personnel were involved.
**Team Watchdog: Several NSC military personnel, as part of a platoon-sized team codenamed Watchdog, were involved in the investigation and rescue of a high school girl, who is abducted by several gangsters. After interrogating them, a covert raid into the gangsters' hideout led to the capture of various sensitive documents and data pertaining to the corruption. This led to their aiding the TMPD in rooting out the corruption.
**Order-State of Merdina (Team Watchdog): Several Merdinan soldiers were attached to Team Watchdog, and they were the first to discover incriminating evidence of nationwide corruption.
**Federal Intelligence Service: Admiral Borealia Norsoutha, under the codename Agent Orphelia, is involved in investigating corruption prevalent throughout Japan. Agents under Orphelia were all involved.
*Japan Self-Defense Forces: Lt. Itami Youji and his comrades and superiors find themselves in a web of intrigue after a joint search with Team Watchdog for the missing high school girl.
===Shinomiya Web===
*Shinomiya Group: The Shinomiya Group is the center of the web of intrigue, and its CEO, Gan'an Shinomiya, is responsible for the corruption throughout Japan. The murder of a factory owner led to Gan'an's downfall and arrest by elements of the Novayan Expeditionary Force and Kyoto Prefectural Police.
*Japanese Government (NLP-J): The Japanese government under Prime Minister Shinzo Mori and the National Liberal Party of Japan is the largest participant in the Shinomiya Web. Despite the Tokyo Comprehensive Agreement signed in April 1, Prime Minister Mori sought to take the island of Dokdo through Operation Kagemusha.
*Yamato Foundation: An influential Japanese ultranationalist organization with ties to the Japanese government. Prime Minister Shinzo Mori is a member of this faction. The Yamato Foundation fell after its members were arrested by joint NSC-Japanese teams in their simultaneous raids.
===Post-exposure and economic collapse===
*Novayan Stellar Commonwealth: On the orders of Grand Marshal Borealis III, the NSC sent large amount of money to Japan to alleviate and restore the Japanese economy's collapse. Various NSC corporations, independent or state-authorized, were also involved in reviving the Japanese economy.
**Novayan Expeditionary Force: The Novayan Expeditionary Force, stationed throughout East Asia and Southeast Asia, deployed its forces stationed at Japan to maintain order.
**NSC Outer Territories: The Outer Territorials launched several charity missions to give money, food, water, medicine and clothes to the Japanese people. Small number of Outer Territorial troops were sent to help maintain order.
*Indepol Group: The Indepol Group launched a charity campaign to provide food, water, medicine, clothes and money to the Japanese people.
===Neutrals===
*Ogiwara Food Corporation: Based at Hokkaido, the Ogiwara Food Corporation and its owners, the Ogiwara family, and CEO, Issa Ogiwara, were unaware of the corruption that permeates Japan yet they signed a favorable deal made by the Shinomiya Group, unaware of their shady dealings and manipulation, one day before the affair is exposed. After Sayu Ogiwara and her mother reconciled thanks to a 25-year-old salaryman named Yoshida, they learned of and were shocked by the corruption permeating Japan; they convinced the NEF investigators, sent on orders from Captain 1st Rank Wilhelmina Heinrike herself to investigate, they are not aware of the Shinomiya Group's shady dealings and the circumstances behind the death of their daughter's close friend and classmate. The Ogiwara Food Corporation, for its part, is spared from the collapse of the Japanese economy, and is now involved in healing it after begrudgingly agreeing to let their daughter visit the salaryman every weekend; this immediately shortened to each day afternoon or evening after a bunch of thaumaturges, having already done a big brainstorming time session, decide to open up a portal transportation services company to allow for interpersonal travels.
*Novayan Stellar Commonwealth
**Military Staff Committee of the Grand Marshal: The MSCGM - composed of Grand Marshal Borealis III, Vice Admirals Ushanka Zoborov and Pina Co Lada, Captain 1st Rank Wilhelmina Heinrike von Gebaur zu Berlichingen-Weizenbaum, Staff Sergeant Scarlet Rangers, Oberstgruppenfuhrer Reinhilde Heydrich, Schattenfuhrer Yarin Norsoutha, and General Salta Norsoutha - were unaware of the Shinomiya affair. However, the corruption prevalent is enough to force the MSCGM to set up a military-guided parliamentary democratic government.
*Special Sword Administration Bureau: The Special Sword Administration Bureau is shaken by the exposure of the affair, of which it was unknowingly involved in. Despite the loss of respect, evidence and testimonies confirm it is just as surprised as many Japanese people.
*Co-Axis Company: Its Japanese branch is given to the Shinomiya Group in 2001 by Lord Admiral Borealis I, who owned Co-Axis and unaware of the corruption and Gan'an's plans. After learning about that, the enraged Lord Admiral took back his company's Japanese branch; he later had the Shinomiya Group stripped to the bone (as in looted, property speaking), to the joy and/or horror of those seeing such pillaging, of all its properties.
*Circle of the Revue: The Circle of the Revue is taken by surprise when the affair is revealed despite it not being involved with the scandal.
*Deus Ex Machina Industries: The Japanese branch of DEM Industries collapsed after the affair included said branch. The collapsed Japanese branch is then purchased by Co-Axis Company; what cannot be salvaged were instead looted by Borealis I and his forces, much to Sir Isaac Westcott's dismay. Half of the Japanese branch is given back to DEM Industries in an equal agreement signed by Sir Isaac and Borealis I, who now turned his looting-induced wrath on the Shinomiya Group, much to Sir Isaac's ever-growing dismay.
*Asgard Electronics: The Japanese branch of Asgard Electronics avoided the affair five years before, yet it is taken off-guard.