Japanese Conquest of Asia

### Aftermath

Japan gains all of East Asia, Southeast Asia, Assam Province, Tibet, Bhutan, Sikkim, Xinjiang, Micronesia and the East Indies.

## Events

### Events During War

Conquest of all European Colonies in Asia
Persian Coup de'at
Indo-Persian unification

## Participants

### Allied Faction

United Kingdom
Russian Empire
Chinese Empire
Qajar Persia
British India
Australia
New Zealand

### Opposing Faction

Empire of Japan
Kingdom of Korea
Maharajahnate of Manchukuo
Kingdom of Siam
Fengtian Government
Indo-Persian Empire (after 1916)
German Ost Pacific

### Allied Commanders

George V
David Lloyd George
Claude Maxwell MacDonald
Nicolas II
Anatoly Stessel
Yevgeni Alekseyev
Robert Viren
Zinovy Rozhestvensky
Yuan Shikai
Ahmad Shah Qajar (after 1916)

### Oppossing Commanders

Yoshito
Terauchi Masatake
Hermann Detzner
Yi Un
Yi Wan-yong
Yi Geun-taek
Aisin Gioro Puyi
Zhang Haipeng
Zhang Jinghui
Rama VII
Reza Shah (after 1916)
Pan Asian Rebels

The Japanese Conquest of Asia was a major campaign in Asia done by the Germans, Japanese and their Asian Collaborators in the region which dismantled the British and Russian Empires in Asia.

## History

### Prelude to Conquest

Under the slogans of *Fukoku Kyōhei* and *Shokusan Kōgyō*, Japan underwent a period of industrialization and militarization, the Meiji Restoration being the fastest modernization of any country to date, all of these aspects contributed to Japan's emergence as a great power and the establishment of a colonial empire following the First Sino-Japanese War, the Boxer Rebellion and the Russo-Japanese War. Japan despite being a great Colonial Empire was discriminated by Europeans and Americans due to them not being an Empire of Caucasian Descent and Japan was a rising Empire during the age of the Yellow Peril. The End of the Sino-Japanese War was a victory, but Laudong was taken by the Russians to get them warm water and to appease the French and Germans who want to use Russian expansion in the Northeast Asia Region to help the two Empires maintain contact with their Asian Holdings due to British Naval Supremacy. The Japanese were friends with the British who desired to be their friend to prevent Japan from being a victim of Russian aggression. Sadly the friendship took a bad turn when Japan "unfairly" annexed Korea.

A revolution culminated a decade of agitation, revolts, and uprisings. The Qing dynasty had struggled for a long time to reform the government and resist foreign aggression, but the program of reforms after 1900 was opposed by Manchu conservatives at court as too radical (as they might piss off the Chinese traditionalists who have influence within the Government) and by Chinese reformers as too slow. Underground anti-Qing groups, revolutionaries in exile, reformers who wanted to save the monarchy by modernizing it, and activists across the country debated how or whether to overthrow the Manchus. The flash-point came on 10 October 1911, with the Wuchang Uprising, an armed rebellion among members of the New Army. Similar revolts broke out spontaneously around the country. The abdication of the last Chinese emperor, the six-year-old Puyi, was promulgated on 12 February 1912.

Puyi's abdication ended thousands of years of Imperial Rule in China and the start of the Chinese Republic, The Chinese Traditionalists had nasty wars against the Republicans which resulted in China being split up.

### Pan Asian Pressure

Germany had created an alliance with the Pan Asian Organizations known as the Black Ocean Society and the Black Dragon Society and other Pan Asian Organizations in Japan to pressure Japan's military in waging war against the British, French and Dutch Colonial Regimes in Asia. The head of the German Pan Asian Coalition Sai Jinhua, a Chinese courtesan who became the acquaintance of Alfred von Waldersee and her fiancee who is a member of the National Assembly, Wei Sijiong, who was a former head of the Jiangxi Province Bureau of Civil Affairs who told Yoshito and the Japanese Cabinet that if they help the Asian Peoples under European Domination, then the Germany will give Japan it's Pacific territories and Japan will even have all of the Entente's Colonies in Asia and China. Japan agreed since they Germans had aid of the Pan Asian Organizations in Japan who are against European Rule and Germany promised to help Japan get an easy expansion in Asia.

### Creation of Manchukuo

Japan had influence in Manchuria ever since the Russo-Japanese War and after the fall of the Qing Dynasty. Fearing they would loose Manchuria to their enemies in Russia and Manchuria being an important region due to its rich natural resources including coal, fertile soil, and various minerals, Japan solidified their control of the region.

The Yuan Shikai Declaring himself Emperor crisis influenced Japan in creating a Puppet Regime in Manchuria to combat the false Emperor with the deposed Manchu Emperor. Japanese officials met with Puyi who went to the Japanese Concession of Tianjin in which the Japanese moved him up to Manchuria and declared him High King of Manchuria. Puyi then married Yoshiko Kawashima, a Manchu Princess adopted by Kawashima, a Japanese espionage agent and mercenary adventurer after his coronation.

### Japan gets Indochina and the East Indies

Japan had conquered Indochina which was easy as the colony was in disarray after the Scramble for France and the Pro-German Kingdom of the Netherlands allowed Japan to conquer the East Indies as a way to help the Japanese conquer the British.

### Japan gets help from German Soldiers

Japan then gets help from the German forces in China who gave them their territories to appease the Pan Asian organizations to help Japan get an easier victory. The Japanese and the Pan Asian organizations with Puyi's forces gained support from many Pan Asian Organizations who marched in as Liberators of Asia from Anglo-French oppression.

The German plan to use Japan and the Pan-Asian organizations to weaken Britain and France was easy as the Japanese and Manchu Soldiers with Pan Asian Groups caused rebellions against the British and the French as the Germans funded the rebellions. After they supported the rebellions, the Germans then decided to train the organizations in German and Japanese Army drills as the organizations after weeks of training then waged war on the British Police as the Japanese and German Pacific Navy then bombarded the British and French owned Legation cities.

The British then bombarded Japanese holdings in Taiwan which resulted in Japan responding with a big naval war that was a resulted in 20 victories and 20 defeats for Britain and 21 Victories and 19 defeats for Japan.

However Japan was victorious on land with aid of it's allies and the instability of China which resulted in more victories for Japan as Pan Asian groups took control of the ports. Japan used it's defeats to anger the populace and their supporters to make the British out as killers which resulted in more anger and hatred against the British and French as it caused more resentment against British and French citizens which caused brawls in the concessions and all over China. The Japanese helped the rioters as they fired upon the citizens and policemen which resulted in the people who had no help from the troopers due to them all fighting elsewhere to retreat to Hong Kong.

### Empire of the Rising Sun vs Empire of a Stupid Warlord

Yuan Shikai decided to fight against the Japanese to save the Europeans resulting in him being called a European Puppet by the Chinese. His former Priest of a Prime Minister was assassinated by a Pan Asian Chinese assassin and the Japanese rallied all the Chinese loyalists and Pan Asian Organizations to fight the Beiyang Army. Japan had then gained help from Zhang Zuolin, a Warlord in Manchuria who desired to resurrect the Republic that Yuan Shikai destroyed all for the stupid notion of creating his own monarchy.

The Zhang Zuollin and his forces in the Beiyang Army then marched on Beijing as they bombarded the city, Manchukuo then helped Zhang take power in North China as he took over all of North China with aid of the Mongolian troopers who were allies of Japan. Sun Yet Sen accepted Zhang as his successor to appease the Japanese who took him in during Yuan's rise as Emperor. Yuan Shikai died in 1916 as a humiliating failure who ruined the Republic for his own personal gain. China had fallen into the hands of the Fengtian government with aid of Manchukuo and the Pan Asian Groups in China who conquered the Northern Portion of China and the Japanese who conquered the Southern Portion of China with aid of their Indochinese and Indonesian forces.

The Battles were easy because China was disorganized and the British and French had no help from their homelands, but it was hard due to fierce fighting against the Japanese by Anti-Japanese Chinese citizens and Europeans. The chaos spilled so much blood and was so destructive the war in Asia was known as the "Bloody Asian Theater".

### Russia causes a rebellion in Korea

Russia hating the fact it's allies lost the war incited a rebellion by the Koreans, this made Japan freak out as they needed Korea to maintain support for their puppet states in Northeast Asia. However Pro-Japanese Korean Collaborators put the Pro-Japanese Prince Imperial Yeong, Yi Un, Crown Prince Uimi on the throne as King of Korea. This ended the rebellions as Korea is now a Japanese Puppet State and the Koreans will no longer rebel against Japanese control and be loyal to Japan. Russia was pissed that it wasted resources because Japan easily ruined the rebellion Russia worked so hard to create to ruin Japan's efforts.

### Second Russo-Japanese War

Russia then decided to wage war on Japan as Japan wiped the floor with Russia due to instability with the country. Russia even accidentally destroyed US Navy Ports in Alaska which angered a bunch of Americans who then supported the Japanese. This defeat caused more instability in Russia as Soldiers in Siberia deserted the Imperial Russian Army.

### Japanese annexation of Malaya, Singapore and Brunei

The Japanese annexed Malaya, Singapore and Brunei which was easy due to instability in the regions as people were dissatisfied with British rule due to soldiers being forced to fight a European War. The Japanese then annexed the 3 colonies with ease due to them having the East Indies in their hands in which gave them an advantage in annexing the regions. Britain had enough and declared war on Japan as they then decided to use Burma to invade the Japanese Ruled Indochina, however this provoked the Kingdom of Siam who then got mad and invaded Burma with aid of the Japanese. This caused a massive war with India, Australia and New Zealand. Japan freaked out because it needed a way to stop themselves and their allies from loosing to the British Empire.

However Japan got the idea of using Persia as a proxy to fight against India, due to intelligence revealing that the British, Russians and Ottomans plan to divide Persia into 3 territories of British, Russia and the Ottomans. This resulted in Japan installing Reza Shah into power.

### Russian Revolution

The Russians had suffered many defeats to the point they broke apart and had nasty Socialist Revolutionaries who are at war with the monarchists and Nationalists. The Socialists won as the Nationalists retreated to East Siberia under American control and the Monarchists retreated west to St. Petersburg. The Japanese were unable to defeat the Mongolian Communists who conquered West Mongolia as they were unable to conquer the east Portion of Mongolia as the communists of China annexed central China.

However the Japanese due to helping Indo-Persia (ruled by Reza Shah) had annexed Tibet, Bhutan, Sikkim, the Assam Province and Xinjiang.

### The War continues

Japan had help in creating it's Empire with the aid of the Germans and Americans as America gave Japan the Philippines to prevent a Pan Asian Rebellion against them which could be trouble for America who is annexing Australia and New Zealand. Japan had gained Micronesia as the Germans decided to give it to Japan to get all of west Polynesia.

## Aftermath

Japan had gained all of East Asia, Southeast Asia, Manchuria and Mongolia with Tibet, Bhutan, Sikkim, the Assam Province and Xinjiang. Thailand has become a Client State of Japan and had become a pro-Japanese state.

Japan had a lot of turmoil as the 1923 Earthquake resulted in turmoil as the Japanese state demanded resources to help the master state recover from the Earthquake. This had caused anger from the Natives who rioted against the Pan Asian organizations collaborating with Japan to stop the unreasonable demands. The KMT led by Chiang Kai Shek did not approve of Zhang Zuolin being chosen as a successor of the Republic of China and desired to be the heir since Zuolin is a Japanese collaborator. The Communists hated both Republics as they see the Republic as shit and they desire to turn China into a communist state. Chinese Nationalist Monarchists and former Boxers then decided to rebel in Beijing and create their own monarchy ruled by the descendants of Confucius as Monarchs of the nation. The rebellion was a success due to Fengtian having a slapfight with the communists.

The Chinese Christians and the Europeans retreated to Hong Kong as a refuge. This all started the Second Boxer Rebellion.