Ichiko Nobunaga

### Jobs

Minister of Economics : 1922 - 1961Deputy Minister of the Interior : 1950 - 1961

## Family

### Relatives

Murai Nobunaga (Father,Deceased)
Okabe Setsuko (Mother,Deceased)

Shibuya Nobunaga (Sister,Alive)

### Children

None

**Ichiko Nobunaga** (市子 信長) was a Japanese immigrant who served as the minister of economics from 1921 until her death in 1961.

She was born on the 31st of May 1900 in Saitama,a town in the kanto region in Japan.

## Early Life

Ichiko was born in a modest family in Saitama. She spent most of her early years wandering around with her older sister Shibuya. As she first started school : she quickly developed an interest in mathematics and most importantly : economics. According to her classmates she was relatively talkative but very shy and lacked self confidence. Ichiko would go on to graduate from High School with full honors and immediately went into the Saitama University to avoid military service. However as soon as she got her Doctoral diploma from the university : the army tried to conscript her,forcing her to accept a job in Ebreichten as secretary.

## 1922 - 1941 : From secretary to minister

### Under Karla

Ichiko was originally hired by Karla Schmidt,minister of security at that time,to be her secretary and associate. Ichiko was put in charge of budgeting the secret services and making sure that they didn't overspend. Ebreichten's economical situation at that time was abysmal to say the least,relying solely on taxes and the small profits collected by selling grain to neighboring countries. At the time minister of the interior : Michail Goldmann realised that he needed a minister of economics to manage this delicate economical situation. He quickly picked up on Ichiko's financial skills and hired her as his minister of economics : beginning ichiko's rise through the ranks

### Under Goldmann

Ichiko would prove herself useful by striking a deal with Ľubovít Jahoda and created the first transnational railway,linking etterstel,eylstadt and küsfelden together. She managed to get the economy roaring,but her true time to shine started during the Army insurrection of 1927

### The Army insurrection

Ichiko was not well known before this event. This event was what turned her from a regular office lady that anyone barely knew about to a national symbol of resistance. During the insurrection,while the rest of the government and the rest of the military were busy fighting each others and trying to take over : Ichiko held the palace on her own from both fascists,communists and soldiers from both sides with a machine gun. That act of defiance and of devotion to the center of Ebreichtist power cemented her as an Ebreichtist figure and the population was able to overlook her japanese heritage due to that event. It's also thanks to that insurrection that she met her future spouse : Sasha Schwann

### The Great Depression era and the following recession

Ichiko's first reaction to the depression was one of despair. She reportedly visited the stock market and just walked around with a look of terror on her face. However once she overcame her fears,she threw herself at work and tried to solve the situation as best as she could. Investing heavily in infrastructures and industries to restart the local production but due to her focusing on fixing the economical turmoil she did not take part in the Anti Karla coup of 1934

## 1941 - 1945 : The war

Following Germany's declaration of war,Ichiko mobilised the economy and turned it into a war economy. Trying her best to juggle between civilian demands and military supplies. However she's more well known for being one of the few members of the government to be actually on the frontline,mainly to look after sasha. She would however be one of the three ebreichtists to take part in the 1st burning of Munich in October 1941,alongside Jacques and Zachary from the 38DK. However following the fall of Küsfelden in May 1942 : she tried to prevent Sasha from fighting. After the witch fight above eylstadt however,when she saw that Sasha was severly wounded by her own allies : she took to defending her from her own allies. Experts say that this coupled with her experiences later with the army fueled her anti military views. After the battle : she directly confronted Marshal Erwin about this outrageous tactic. This is where she and sasha both did their coming out to each other. Ichiko and Sasha quickly became a propaganda symbol as the nazis were firmly homophobic and were beaten by both Ichiko and Sasha. Soldiers even adopted the saying "Ichi sends her regards!" as they walked into Munich again. However as nationalistic thoughts took hold of the people,Ichiko grew to hate those ideas of a newly reformed warden empire.

### The Sasha Crisis

At the end of the second world war : Ebreichten was faced with something commonly refer to as the Sasha Crisis. Ichiko would take the government's side after discussing the situation with Karla. She would lead Erwin , Goldmann and Karla to Sasha's hiding spot.

## 1946 - 1950 : Sand and Beginning in Politics

Ichiko would take part in the international forces sent to Israel to fight against the warmongering arabs. She would take part in the battle of Lod-Tel Aviv and visited the recently retaken east jerusalem with Sasha and Goldmann.

After the war : Ichiko became a politician despite her original wishes. She was thrusted forward as a main opposition voice to goldmann's government and to the military as a whole after releasing a novel named "The Alpine Jungle" in which she detailed every single bit of bad stuff that happened in the governmnent. She would be the 1st candidate to announce her intentions to run for office. Her ideas at that time were mainly focused around cutting down military spendings all together,an international neutrality,closer bounds with the german states in the hopes of forming a so called pan german economical union and a more liberal type of society focused on urbanisation. She found most of her influence within vraks' dissident population that grew to despise the air force. She would manage to get all the way to the 2nd round,only losing to Sasha in there. As sasha was forming her government,she invited ichiko over to be her deputy minister

## 1950 - 1961 : Deputy minister and Death

Ichiko became deputy minister of the interior right after sasha's election. Ichiko and her would marry as well later that year,marrying behind closed doors to not steer up conservatives. The country would be alright up until the Great asian war's beginning in March 1961. Where sasha would call for an emergency council. Ichiko's ideas would clash with Riko's and Karl's,with Ichiko wanting to conscript the germans for 10 whole years to help out Japan in the fight. The climate became tensed and very,very frustrating. Following an insult from riko,Ichiko walked,leaving the council. When sasha attempted to continue without her : Clémentine,Stéphanie and the Archiduchess walked too,there was no unity to be found. Ichiko would spearhead the "Pan Japanese Movement" within Ebreichten by starting the 1st full on japanese protest in Ebreichten's history. The protesters clashed with german nationalists in an event known as the Battle of the Palace. After an armed intervention,Ichiko would be beaten up by Eva while karl did nothing and brought back in the room.

Some days later,due to the sheer amount of stress caused by that decision,she died of a heart attack at 3:40PM, on the 20th of April 1961. Her death devastated the nation and most importantly : rallied up anti military elements within society. Sasha would give her a funeral with a small committee and later on Ichiko's body was moved to the Ichiko Mausoleum,where she still is to this day.

## Legacy and Conspiracies

Ichiko's legacy is undeniably important in modern Ebreichtist politics,prompting the japanese people in Ebreichtist to fight for their rights and to be heard but also prompting the students and other anti military figures to protest the military's actions.

Some people speculate on Ichiko's death,finding it too convenient to be a natural one. Some claim that Ichiko was assassinated and that her death was ordered by Riko,Erwin or Karl,as in to get rid of a main anti military voice within not only the government but also the country as a whole. Some others claim the C.I.A are behind it as to prevent a full scale ebreichtist intervention in the great asian war on japan's side. Others go as far as to suspect Ei Beelzebul to be the murderer due to Ichiko's close relation with Goldmann.