Japan

Japan was an island nation in East Asia before the Great War of 2077.
==History==
=== Pre-great war ===
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 (the Book of Han) finished in the 2nd century AD. Between the 4th and 9th centuries, the kingdoms of Japan became unified under an emperorand 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. Amidst a rise in militarism and overseas colonization, Japan invaded China in 1937 and entered World War II as an Axis power in 1941. 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 and began a military alliance with the United States. Under the 1947 constitution, Japan has maintained a unitary parliamentary constitutional monarchy with a bicameral legislature, the National Diet.
Japan was one of the few nation states that weren‘t heavily directed by resource depletion pre-2077. Due to, Japan being one of the few nation states that were still allies with the US before the Great War, it has gained many new technologies that were developed by the united states and they also began researching on their own technologies powered by nuclear energy. Japan also had one of the most powerful and advanced militaries in the world due to trade with the US (such as using American made weapons, vehicles, aircraft and equipment). This however, made Japan a target to the People‘s Republic Of China (who recently annexed Mongolia and was involved with the recent North Korean invasion of South Korea which Japan condemns). By 2077, Japan was one of China‘s targets for nuclear weapons, but most of the population was successfully evacuated to fallout shelters that were inspired by vault-tek (except without the social experiments and they actually wanted to help people survive Nuclear War).
=== Post Great War ===
The Japanese government managed to survive the nuclear conflict and reformed as the State Of Japan. Throughout the next 100 years, The State Of Japan would reunite the island through peaceful unification or conflict. 
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