Japan

## State of Japan

The official Flag of Japan

**Japan** also known as the **State of Japan** and formerly the **Empire of Japan**, is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north toward the East China Sea, Philippine Sea, and Taiwan in the south.

## History

This doesen't count their Historical Negationism and denial of their War Crimes as it was evidence by the survivors of the Pacific War.

## Politics and Government

The Government of Japan consists of legislative, executive and judiciary branches and is based on popular sovereignty. The Government runs under the framework established by the Constitution of Japan, adopted in 1947. It is a unitary state, containing forty-seven administrative divisions, with the Emperor as its Head of State while the Prime Minister is the Head of Government and the commander of it's Armed Forces the JSDF.

Despite of having a decent Government and good policies, much of their Politicians are seemingly Ultraconservative and Right-wing as they seemingly deny the majority of their War Crimes during the WW2 in Pacific as it was evident that most of the Right-wing and Conservative politicians of Japan honoring the deceased Imperial Japanese military personnel including those were War Criminals in the controversial Yasukuni Shrine (see: World War II for further information).

## Prime Ministers of Japan

* Itō Hirobumi - Japan's First Prime Minister and Father of the Meiji Constitution.
* Yamagata Aritomo - Japan's father of the Japanese Militarism, he also appeared in the Anime series Rurouni Kenshin.
* Fumimaro Konoe - Japan's Prime Minister during the Imperial expansion and responsible for Nanjing Massacre.
* Hideki Tojo - Japan's War-time Prime Minister and the one who is responsible for it's militarization during 1930's as a former IJA General and later as a Prime Minister in 1941, the one who responsible for Japan's War Crimes and later executed.
* Kijūrō Shidehara - Japan's post-war Prime Minister.
* Toshiki Kaifu (Deceased) - Japan's PM during the foundation of the Terran Alliance.
* Junichiro Koizumi - Japan's PM from 2001 to 2006. He was known for being a controversial Prime Minister for honoring war criminals in the Yasukuni Shrine as he viewed them as heroes and later resigned.
* Taro Aso - Japan's first Catholic and Christian Prime Minister of Japan, later become a deputy PM.
* Shinzo Abe (Deceased) - the Longest serving Prime Minister of Japan but he was also controversial for his support for Japan's Historical negationism and denying Japan's role in WW2. He was assassinated in 2022.
* Yoshihide Suga - Abe's successor and also a right-winger.
* Fumio Kishida - Prime Minister since 2022, he was also previously a Japanese Foreign Minister.
* Mitsuo Morita - Prime Minister of Japan in late 2030's to 2040's.

## Military

The **Japan Self-Defense Forces** (Japanese: 自衛隊, romanized: Jieitai; abbreviated JSDF), also informally known as the **Japanese Armed Forces** or **Japanese Defense Force**, are the unified de-facto (and later official since 1992) military forces of Japan established in 1954 succeeding the former Armed Forces of the Japanese Empire. The self-defence forces consists of the Japanese Ground Self-Defense Force, the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force, and the Japanese Air Self-Defense Force. They are controlled by the Ministry of Defense, with the Prime Minister as commander-in-chief, with a total of 600,000 to 800,000 personnel in the JSDF.

In 1992, after the establishment of the Terran Alliance at the UN Headquarters, the Article-9 of Japanese law prohibiting the JSDF to fight in different conflicts around the world was lifted and reorganized the self-defense forces as a full-pledged Military of Japan as they fought alongside with many nations of the Terran Alliance even with the South Koreans despite of their differences and bitterness in the past during Japan's occupation of Korea, yet the two nations worked together during the Terran Campaign and later in the Andromeda Galaxy during the Clone Wars, until the betrayal of the Republic when Sheev Palpatine enacted Order 66 against the Jedis forcing themselves to retreat back to Milky Way in 1994 AD.

When the Terran Alliance entered the Intergalactic Cold War, the JSDF along with the nations of the Terran Alliance focused themselves on militarization and fighting against terrorism during the War on Terror, though many Asia-Pacific countries on Terra criticized the current Japanese government for bringing back their military and blaming their actions during the Second World War where they deny most of its War Crimes, despite the fact that the JSDF was fighting to defend not just Earth, but also the two galaxies from the Empire's threats. During the Galactic Civil War, the JSDF fought alongside with the nations of the Terran Alliance and the Rebel Alliance against the Galactic Empire, which was led by the Sith Order.

## Pop Culture

*see: Anime, J-pop and Japanese video gaming industry.*

## Appearances

* *Rise of the Terran Alliance*
* *The Terran Alliance Strikes Back*
* *Terran Jedi and the Squadron*

## See Also:

* United Republic of Korea - It's Korean counterpart.