New Oda

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The **Viceroyalty of New Oda (新織田副王領, Atarashī Oda fuku ō ryō)**, commonly known as **New Oda (新織田, Shin Oda)** is a country located in the North American west coast (More preciselly the old states of California and Oregon). It is a country of approximately 26,1 million inhabitants. The official languages are english, spanish and japanese.

The country is the only Japanese Viceroyalty. It consists of 9 states and 3 regions. The capital of New Oda, **San Diego**, is located in Southern California, the most populated region in the Viceroyalty.

Previously, Nova Oda was part of an independent republic, **The United States of America**.

## History

### First inhabitants

Settled by successive waves of arrivals during at least the last 13,000 years, New Oda was one of the most culturally and linguistically diverse areas in pre-Columbian North America. Various estimates of the native population range from 50,000 to 150,000. The indigenous peoples of New Oda included more than 70 distinct ethnic groups of Native Americans, ranging from large, settled populations living on the coast to groups in the interior. New Oda groups also were diverse in their political organization with bands, tribes, villages, and on the resource-rich coasts, large chiefdoms, such as the Chumash, Pomo and Salinan. Trade, intermarriage and military alliances fostered many social and economic relationships among the diverse groups. In recorded history, mentions of the land date to as early as the 16th century. During the 18th and 19th centuries, European powers—and later the United States—quarreled over possession of the region.

### Spanish rule

The first Europeans to explore the California coast were the members of a Spanish sailing expedition led by Portuguese captain **Juan Rodríguez** **Cabrillo**; they entered San Diego Bay on **September 28, 1542**, and reached at least as far north as San Miguel Island. In 1543, Juan Rodríguez sighted southern Oregon off the Pacific coast, the first time Oregon was seen.

In 1579 the English explorer and privateer **Sir Francis Drake** explored and claimed an undefined portion of the California, also he landed north of the future city of **San Francisco** and briefly anchored at **South Cove, Cape Arago**, just south of Coos Bay. **Sebastián Vizcaíno** explored and mapped the coast of California in 1602 for **New Spain**, putting ashore in Monterey and in 1603. **Martín de Aguilar**, continuing separately from **Sebastián Vizcaíno's scouting of California**, reached as far north as **Cape Blanco** and possibly to **Coos Bay**.

Despite the on-the-ground explorations of **New Oda** in the **16th century**, Rodríguez's idea of California as an island persisted. Such depictions appeared on many European maps well into the **18th century**.

The **Spanish colonization** led to mass deaths among the natives through epidemics of various diseases for which the indigenous peoples had no natural immunity, such as measles and diphtheria. The establishment of the Spanish systems of government and social structure, which the Spanish settlers had brought with them, also technologically and culturally overwhelmed the societies of the earlier indigenous peoples.

During this same period, sailors from the **Russian Empire** explored along the California coast and in 1812 established a trading post at **Fort Ross**. Russia's early 19th-century coastal settlements in California were positioned just north of the northernmost edge of the area of Spanish settlement in San Francisco Bay, and were the southernmost Russian settlements in North America. The Russian settlements associated with Fort Ross were spread from **Point Arena** to **Tomales Bay**.

British explorer **David Thompson** also conducted overland exploration in Oregon. In 1811, while working for the **North West Company**, **Thompson** became the first European to navigate the entire **Columbia River**. Stopping on the way, at the junction of the **Snake River**, he posted a claim to the region for **Spain**. Upon returning to Montreal, he publicized the abundance of fur-bearing animals in the area. Oregon late became a valuable trade route to Asia.

### Mexican rule

In 1821, the **Mexican War of Independence** gave **Mexico** (including California and Oregon) independence from **Spain**. For the next 25 years, Alta California remained as a remote, sparsely populated, northwestern administrative district of the newly independent country of Mexico. The missions, which controlled most of the best land in the state, were secularized by 1834 and became the property of the **Mexican government**. The governor granted many square leagues of land to others with political influence. These huge ranchos or cattle ranches emerged as the dominant institutions of **Mexican California and Oregon**. The ranchos developed under ownership by **Californios** (Hispanics native of Alta California) who traded cowhides and tallow with **Boston merchants**. Beef did not become a commodity until the **1849 California Gold Rush.**

The early government of the newly independent **Mexico** was highly unstable, and in a reflection of this, from 1831 onwards, Alta California also experienced a series of armed disputes, both internal and with the central **Mexican government**. During this tumultuous political period **Juan Bautista Alvarado** was able to secure the governorship during **1836–1842**. The military action which first brought Alvarado to power had momentarily declared Alta California to be an independent state, and had been aided by **Anglo-American** residents of California, including **Isaac Graham**. In 1840, one hundred of those residents who did not have passports were arrested, leading to the **Graham Affair**, which was resolved in part with the intercession of **Royal Navy officials**.

One of the largest ranchers in California was **John Marsh**. After failing to obtain justice against squatters on his land from the **Mexican courts**, he determined that Alta California should become part of the **United States**. Marsh conducted a letter-writing campaign espousing the region climate, the soil, and other reasons to settle there, as well as the best route to follow, which became known as **"Marsh's route"**. His letters were read, reread, passed around, and printed in newspapers throughout the country, and started the first wagon trains rolling to California. He invited immigrants to stay on his ranch until they could get settled, and assisted in their obtaining passports.

After ushering in the period of organized emigration to Alta California, Marsh became involved in a military battle between the much-hated Mexican general, **Manuel Micheltorena** and the state governor he had replaced, **Juan Bautista Alvarado**. The armies of each met at the **Battle of Providencia** near Los Angeles. Marsh had been forced against his will to join **Micheltorena's army**. Ignoring his superiors, during the battle, he signaled the other side for a parley. There were many settlers from the **United States** fighting on both sides. He convinced these men that they had no reason to be fighting each other. As a result of Marsh's actions, they abandoned the fight, Micheltorena was defeated, and **Pio Pico** was returned to the governorship. This paved the way to Alta California's ultimate acquisition by the **United States**

### California Republic and conquest

In 1846, a group of **American settlers** in and around Sonoma rebelled against Mexican rule during the **Bear Flag Revolt**. Afterwards, rebels raised the **Bear Flag** (featuring a bear, a star, a red stripe and the words "California Republic") at **Sonoma**. The Republic's only president was **William B. Ide**, who played a pivotal role during the **Bear Flag Revolt**. This revolt by **American settler**s served as a prelude to the later **American military invasion of California** and was closely coordinated with nearby **American military commanders**.

The **California Republic** was short-lived; the same year marked the outbreak of the **Mexican–American War (1846–48)**. When Commodore **John D. Sloat** of the **United States Navy** sailed into **Monterey Bay** and began the military occupation of California by the **United States**, Northern California capitulated in less than a month to the **United States forces**. After a series of defensive battles in Southern California, the **Treaty of Cahuenga** was signed by the Californios on **January 13, 1847**, securing **American control in California**.

### Early American period

Following the **Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo** (February 2, 1848) that ended the war, the westernmost portion of the annexed **Mexican territory of Alta California** soon became the American state of **California**, and the remainder of the old territory was then subdivided into the new American Territories of **Arizona**, **Nevada**, **Colorado, Oregon** and **Utah**. The even more lightly populated and arid lower region of **old** **Baja California** remained as a part of **Mexico**. In 1846, the total settler population of the western part of the **old Alta California** had been estimated to be no more than 10,000, plus about 150,000 Native Americans, down from about 350,000 before Hispanic settlement in 1769.

In 1848, only one week before the official American annexation of the area, **gold** was discovered in **California**, this being an event which was to forever alter both the state's demographics and its finances. Soon afterward, a massive influx of immigration into the area resulted, as prospectors and miners arrived by the thousands. The population burgeoned with United States citizens, **Europeans**, **Chinese**, **Japanses** and other immigrants during the great **California Gold Rush**. By the time of California's application for statehood in 1850, the settler population of **California** had multiplied to 100,000. By 1854, more than 300,000 settlers had come. Between 1847 and 1870, the population of **San Francisco** increased from 500 to 150,000. **California** was suddenly no longer a sparsely populated backwater, but seemingly overnight it had grown into a major population center.

The seat of government for **California** under Spanish and later Mexican rule had been located in Monterey from 1777 until 1845. **Pio Pico**, the last Mexican governor of **Alta California**, had briefly moved the capital to **Los Angeles** in 1845. The **United States consulate** had also been located in **Monterey**, under consul **Thomas O. Larkin**.

In 1849, a state **Constitutional Convention** was first held in **Monterey**. Among the first tasks of the convention was a decision on a location for the new state capital. The first full legislative sessions were held in **San Jose** (1850–1851). Subsequent locations included **Vallejo** (1852–1853), and nearby **Benicia** (1853–1854); these locations eventually proved to be inadequate as well. The capital has been located in **San Diego** since 1854. Once the state's **Constitutional Convention** had finalized its state constitution, it applied to the **U.S. Congress** for admission to statehood. On September 9, 1850, as part of the Compromise of 1850, **California** became a free state and September 9 a state holiday.

During the **American Civil War** (1861–1865), **California** sent gold shipments eastwards to **Washington** in support of the **Union**. However, due to the existence of a large contingent of **pro-South sympathizers** within the state, it was not able to muster any full military regiments to send eastwards to officially serve in the **Union war effort**. Still, several smaller military units within the **Union army** were unofficially associated with the state of **California**, such as the **"California 100 Company"**, due to a majority of their members being from **California**.

At the time of **California's admission into the Union**, travel between **California** and the rest of the continental **United States** had been a time-consuming and dangerous feat. Nineteen years later, and seven years after it was greenlighted by **President Lincoln**, the **First Transcontinental Railroad** was completed in 1869. California was then reachable from the eastern States in a week's time.

Regarding to Oregon actions in the **American Civil War**, regular **U.S.** troops were withdrawn and sent east. Volunteer cavalry and infantry were recruited in **California** and sent north to **Oregon** to keep peace and protect the populace. Oregon also raised the **1st Oregon Cavalry** that was activated in 1862 and served until June 1865. During the **Civil War**, immigrants continued to clash with the **Paiute**, **Shoshone** and **Bannock** tribes in Oregon, Idaho and Nevada until relations degenerated into the bloody 1864 - 1868 **Snake War**. The **1st Oregon Volunteer Infantry Regiment** was formed in 1864 and its last company was mustered out of service in July 1867. Both units were used to guard travel routes and **Native American reservations**, **escort immigrant wagon trains**, and **protect settlers from Native American raiders**. Several infantry detachments also accompanied survey parties and built roads in **central** and **southern Oregon**.

Oregon Senator **Col. Edward Dickinson Baker** was killed leading **Union troops** at the **Battle of Ball's Bluff** on October 21, 1861.

In the nineteenth century, a large number of migrants from **China** and **Japan** traveled to California and surroundings, as part of the **Gold Rush** or to seek work. Even though the **Chinese** and **Japanese** proved indispensable in building the transcontinental railroad from **California** to **Utah**, perceived job competition with the Asian led to **anti-Asian** riots in the state, and eventually the **US** ended migration from China and Japan partially as a response to pressure from **California** with the **1882 Sino-Japanese Exclusion Act**.

### Racial discrimination

The **Oregon Territory**, **State of Oregon** and **California** had multiple laws and policies discriminating against **racial minorities**.

During the late **19th** and early **20th centuries**, both freed and enslaved **Black people** came to the **American West** from the South, searching for lives free of the violence and oppression imposed first by slavery, and later by **Jim Crow**. In those states, however, **Black people** often found equally calculated forms of **disenfranchisement** and **segregation**.

Traces of the **history of discrimination and state violence** in those states from the period leading up to **statehood** in 1850 through the post-emancipation **Reconstruction era**. Covering topics such as **Ku Klux Klan** assassinations, segregation at community pools and schools and the implementation of eugenics, the book catalogues the intellectual and activist history of **Black resistance**. The resulting portrait of **anti-Blackness** and **Black resistance** challenges widely held beliefs about the history and sources of progressivism in the West and points toward an activism based in mass movements and mutual aid.

### Post-Reconstruction

Beginning in the 1880s, the growth of railroads expanded the states' lumber, wheat, and other agricultural markets, and the rapid growth of its cities. Due to the abundance of timber and waterway access via the **Willamette River**, **Portland** became a major force in the **lumber industry** of the **Pacific Northwest**, and quickly became the state's largest city. In 1902, **Oregon** introduced direct legislation by the state's citizens through initiatives and referenda, known as the **Oregon System**.

**Industrial expansion** began in earnest following the **1933–37** construction of the **Bonneville Dam** on the **Columbia River**. **Hydroelectric power**, **food**, and **lumber** provided by **Oregon** helped fuel the development of the West, although the periodic fluctuations in the **U.S. building industry** have hurt the state's economy on multiple occasions. **Portland**, in particular, experienced a population boom between 1900 and 1930, tripling in size; the arrival of World War II also provided the northwest region of the state with an industrial boom, where Liberty ships and aircraft carriers were constructed.

### Early 20th Century

In the twentieth century, thousands of Japanese people migrated to the **US** and **California** specifically to attempt to purchase and own land in the state. However, the state in 1913 passed the **Alien Land Act**, excluding Asian immigrants from owning land. Until the end of **World War II**, Japanese Americans in California were interned in concentration camps such as at **Tule Lake** and **Manzanar**.

Migration to California accelerated during the early **20th century** with the completion of major transcontinental highways like the Lincoln Highway and **Route 66**.

To meet the population's needs, major engineering feats like the **California** and **Los Angeles Aqueducts**; the **Oroville** and **Shasta Dams**; and the **Bay** and **Golden Gate Bridges** were built across the state.

Meanwhile, attracted to the **mild Mediterranean climate**, cheap land, and the state's wide variety of geography, filmmakers established the studio system in **Hollywood** in the 1920s. **California** manufactured 8.7 percent of total **United States** military armaments produced during **World War II**, ranking third (behind New York and Michigan) among the 48 states. **California** however easily ranked first in production of military ships during the war (transport, cargo, [merchant ships] such as Liberty ships, Victory ships, and warships) at drydock facilities in **San Diego, Los Angeles**, and the San **Francisco Bay Area**.

During the **20th century**, two great disasters happened in **California**. The **1906 San Francisco earthquake** and **1928 St. Francis Dam flood** remain the deadliest in **New Odan** history

### The Imperial Japanese Invasions

In 1945, **Japanese imperial troops** realized surprise attacks along the western american coast, sucefully capituring the entire state of **Oregon** and A few more regions, mainly in **California**. The Japanese subject was stablished in **10th September 1945**, with the the name of **New Oda**.

### Red month

Since the **New Oda proclamation**, to 11th October of 1945, the country had no present Viceroy, so it was a **Anarcho-Communist** subject of the **Empire of Japan**, this period was named **Red Month(赤い月間, Akai Gekkan)**, the Anarcho-Communist system was implemented by popular vote, it won parlamentarism with 62% of the votes.

### Viceroys

The Viceroyalty was first commanded by **Prince Naruhiko Higashikuni**, a Japanese imperial prince, uncle-in-law of **Emperor Hirohito** twice over and the only member of the **Japanese imperial family** to head a cabinet. He served as **Prime Minister of Japan** from 17 August 1945 to 9 October 1945, abandoning his position in reason to his nomination as **Viceroy** of New Oda.

His sucessor were **Prince Morihiro Higashikuni**, an Imperial Japanese Army officer who was a member of a cadet line of the **Japanese imperial family** and husband of **Emperor Hirohito's eldest daughter**. He abdicate from the Army officer position in January 1946 to dedicate in politics study and inherit his father as viceroy of **New Oda**. In 27 July 1948 his father resignated with no apparent reason, so **Morihiro** assumed the title of **Viceroy of New Oda**.

**Morihiro** got cancer in late 1960s, dying in 1969. He abdicated from **Viceroy title** as soon as he discover his cancer, in April 1968.

The title of **Viceroy** title was then given to his son, **Nobuhiko Higashikuni**, his government last around 20 years. In 1985, with 40 years old, **Nobuhiko Higashikuni** dies from heart attack, lefting no children.

The title of Viceroy was then given to **Fumihito**, younger brother and heir presumptive of **Emperor Naruhito** of Japan and the younger son of **Emperor Emeritus Akihito**. **Fumihito** is the Viceroy of New Oda til today

## Geography

### Oregon

Oregon is slightly larger than the United Kingdom. Oregon's highest point is the summit of Mount Hood, at 11,249 feet (3,429 m), and its lowest point is the sea level of the Pacific Ocean along the Oregon Coast. Oregon's mean elevation is 3,300 feet (1,006 m). Crater Lake National Park, the state's only national park, is the site of the deepest lake in the country, at 1,943 feet (592 m). Oregon claims the D River as the shortest river in the world. Oregon is also home to Mill Ends Park (in Portland), the smallest park in the world at 452 square inches (0.29 m2).

Oregon is split into eight geographical regions. In Western Oregon: Oregon Coast (west of the Coast Range), the Willamette Valley, Rogue Valley, Cascade Range and Klamath Mountains; and in Central and Eastern Oregon: the Columbia Plateau, the High Desert, and the Blue Mountains.

Oregon lies in two time zones. Most of Malheur County is in the Mountain Time Zone, while the rest of the state lies in the Pacific Time Zone.