Japan

**Japan**, Officially the **Empire Of Japan**, is a sovereign state located in Asia. It has a land area of 377,973 km² and has a population of over 125.7 million.

## History

### Pre 20th Century and 20th Century

Japan's rapid industrialisation and militarisation under the slogan *Fukoku Kyōhei* (富國強兵, "Enrich the Country, Strengthen the Armed Forces") led to its emergence as a world power and the establishment of a colonial empire. Economic and political turmoil in the 1920s led to the rise of militarism, eventually culminating in Japan's membership in the Axis alliance and the conquest of a large part of the Asia-Pacific region.

The Empire of Japan is one of the allies of Nazi Germany and is depicted as having successfully conquered and vassalized China, India and much of East Asia during World War II. After the fall of the Soviet Union, Japan also conquered large swathes of territory in Eastern Siberia and the final defeat and capitulation of the Allies in 1948 made Imperial Japan one of the victors of World War II, along with Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany.

Unfortunately for Imperial Japan (and almost every other Axis power for that matter), the "peace" following World War II was not to last. Nazi Germany began its plans for total world conquest, subsequently attacking anyone and anything it could, including its former Axis allies.

Fascist Italy was betrayed, invaded, occupied and destroyed in 1949 and Imperial Japan was attacked soon after that. For all its military power and size, the Imperial Japanese military was unable to resist the overwhelming technological superiority of the German Wehrmacht and Japan was ultimately defeated at some point in the 1950s, making it the last known Axis country to fall to Germany.

Unlike most other countries in the world, Imperial Japan was neither annexed nor turned into a German colony. Japan was allowed to continue existing as an independent state into the 1960s, 1980s and beyond, albeit as a German satellite state and reduced to only the Japanese Home Islands.

## Military

**Imperial Japan’s** military was introduced to Da’at Yichud technology during the waning years of World War 2. But despite the new technology, they would still be beaten back by a new coalition of Chinese Faction, notably the KMT and the Communist Party. Today, the Japanese Armed Forces and the Japanese Navy is heavily Germanised. With equipment, weapons, vehicles, aircraft and discpline inspired by that of the Wehrmacht.

## Society

### Economy

The Tokugawa Japan during a long period of “closed country” autarky between the mid-seventeenth century and the 1850s has achieved a high level of urbanisation; well-developed road networks; the channeling of river water flow with embankments and the extensive elaboration of irrigation ditches that supported and encouraged the refinement of rice cultivation based upon improving seed varieties, fertilizers and planting methods especially in the Southwest with its relatively long growing season; the development of proto-industrial (craft) production by merchant houses in the major cities such as Osaka and Edo and its diffusion to rural areas after 1700; and the promotion of education and population control among both the military elite (the samurai) and the well-to-do peasantry in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

At the time, Japan’s agricultural productivity was high enough to sustain substantial craft (proto-industrial) production in both rural and urban areas of the country prior to industrialisation.

its official currency is the Yen, but it also used the German Mark, the most influential currency in the Socioeconomic world.

### Culture

Japan is best known for being extremely careful for their honor. And they believe that being captured by the hands of the enemy is a disgrace. They’re also known for their oriental architecture, which millennia ago was introduced from China through the Korean Peninsula. Japan is also best known for its cuisine, most notably sushi, which is extremely popular within the reich and its territories.