Kingdom of Hawaii

Ko Hawai'i Pae 'Āina
ハワイ王国

The **Kingdom of Hawaii** (*Hawaiian: **Ko Hawai'i Pae 'Āina**, Japanese: **ハワイ王国***) is a country in the central Pacific Ocean. It is a member of the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere.

The Kingdom of Hawaii was initially formed in 1795 by Kamehameha the Great, before being colonized by the United States of America in 1895. The American administration lasted for 42 years before the outbreak of the Second American Civil War, during which it achieved its independence once more as an independent Kingdom.

## History

### Hawaiian Revolution of 1937

Initially, a pro-Pacific provisional government was founded called the Emergency Directorate, led by businessman James Dole as well as the Republican Party, however, mass protests broke out against the government, which was decried as a new Big Five corporatocracy. After the breakout of uprisings in the Oahu sugar plantations, widespread fighting spread into Honolulu itself. The Independent Socialist Party of Hawaii, initially founded after the Oahu sugar strike of 1920, supported the anti-Republican uprisings within the country, declaring a Hawaiian revolution, seeking to destroy the Big Five and reverse the Great Māhele.

Within just a few days, the Emergency Directorate of the Territory of Hawaii had fallen, replaced with the Commune of Hawaii. The Provisional Government had fled to the Big Island, with Hilo as its base, and had petitioned for the Entente to help oust the socialist government. However, before the Canadians could respond, 520 members of the Imperial Japanese Navy Landing Forces landed in Honolulu to restore order. Hawaii had gone through four separate ruling administrations in the span of one month, now under a Japanese mandate.

### Occupation and 1939 Constitution

As the Japanese occupied the archipelago, they were caught in a political crossroads, maintaining a shaky balance between plantation workers and plantation owners, lest the Entente, Reichspakt, or even Third International be called into intervention. To return the plantations to export status, concessions would be made to the labor movements in the form of managing the land reforms made under the Commune, as well as granting citizenship to immigrant workers. However, key reforms such as the guaranteed right to organize would be reversed to placate the Big Five, and existing unions would be split among racial lines.

Perhaps the most important aspect of the 1939 Constitution would be the restoration of the Hawaiian monarchy. To gain a foothold within the country, the Japanese administration had made attempts to gain support from ethnic Hawaiians themselves. Many ethnic Hawaiians were divided, or neutral, during the Revolution, being placed in the limbo of having more rights than East Asians and less rights than Whites. Proposed as a solution to both unite the large Native Hawaiian community and cement themselves in a middle position.

Lydia Liliʻuokalani of the House of Kawānanakoa, the foremost member of the cadet branch to the original Hawaiian Kingdom's monarchy, was installed with relatively little power beyond being a figurehead. While the authority of the monarch was limited, the position's role would serve to signal Hawaii's newfound constitutional independence.

### Second Weltkrieg

Hawaii, post-Revolution, developed into a similar position it had under the old Kingdom, though now under Japanese suzerainty. Once the economy rebounded, the world found itself at war through the Weltkrieg, and the Japanese military occupation began to loosen, the isolated islands of Hawaii began to economically boom in exports, as it was unaffected by the war and could safely gain investments from companies at risk elsewhere.

Hawaii became a haven during the war for refugees, corporations, and workers fleeing chaos. Immigrants had mainly come from China, the Philippines, and Japan among other nations, but near, during, and after the Weltkrieg, immigrants now also flocked en masse from the southern United States, India, Chile, and Vietnam, further diversifying Hawaii's existing identity. Many of these immigrants, imported to fill the gap from unionists who did not return to work, faced horrendous working conditions and were not afforded many of the same rights that other workers did.

Though Hawaii was considered unimportant within the Co-Prosperity Sphere during the war, as Japan was wholly disinterested in the Entente, many IJN officials promoted Pearl Harbor as a stronghold in future potential conflicts. Efforts and investments would be made to modernize the islands in case of war, particularly in electrification and the expansion of ports, at the expense of new landowners.

### Continued Occupation

After the war, the economic situation of the Co-Prosperity Sphere had rebounded, with Japanese corporations making deep investments with newly-aligned states, including the new Kingdom of Hawaii.

Japanese military occupiers (now commonly regarded as the *Senin*) settled in the islands after the war, having families and finding commonality with the existing Japanese community. During the occupation, however, Senin who had held elevated economic and political status had differentiated themselves from existing Japanese communities who had worked plantations. The cultural rift between new Senin and existing Japanese citizens was never truly patched. As Nisei (second-generation) Japanese preferred to marry other Nisei rather than Senin, the Sansei community born post-war had split themselves from the children of Senin.

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After the war, power was largely shifted back to a resurgent Hawaiian monarchy under a parliamentary democracy, after a brief yet significant occupation by the Imperial Japanese Army. Lydia Liliʻuokalani of the House of Kawānanakoa, the foremost member of the cadet branch to the original Hawaiian Kingdom's monarchy, was installed with relatively little power beyond being a figurehead; the Kingdom of Hawaii as a result has had a strong tradition of relative stability and lack of autocracy within the Sphere.

Hawaii is an extremely diverse, prosperous country with a balance of Native Hawaiian, Japanese, Portuguese, Chinese, American-Hawaiian, and Filipino communities all over the country. The Japanese community in Hawaii is also growing very swiftly due to military presence, strong investments from zaibatsus, and a very strong existing community.

Currently, Hawaii is dominated by three parties. The largest is the Free Democratic Party, which was initially established as an opposition to the Independent Socialist Party and became immensely successful, so much so that their primary is often more eventful than the actual official election, as well as them pejoratively called the "Honolulu Party" by opponents. Big tent in nature, the FDP in recent years has become split between Daniel Inouye and Ryōichi Ariyoshi, two immensely influential post-war politicians who have dominated the party, regarding Hawaii's status within the GEACPS and Inouye's campaigns to leave it, both out of pragmatic interests and to both appeal to Hawaiian nationalist elements of the ISP and the anti-Tokyo elements of the NRP, wishing to form the Haʻalele Referendum.

Before the FDP, the Independent Socialist Party, or ISP, had briefly ruled as a left-wing party that spawned out of existing dissatisfaction with Republican Party business domination in reference to the Hilo Massacre. Spearheading Hawaiian independence, it had increasingly fallen out of favor due to openly resenting the post-war constitution and later gaining ties to the Independent International. While less prominent nowadays, it is still successful in pushing anti-corporate policies and reforming land distribution.

Finally, the post-war remnants of the formerly dominant Republican Party of Hawaii that had since collapsed reformed into what is now the New Reform Party, or NRP, a business-aligned center-right party which has openly pushed for protectionist policies..