Land of the Setting Sun

Premise
Land of the Setting Sun is a scenario centered off of the survival and slow decline of the Japanese Empire and the East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere as the 20th century progresses. Initially successful in expanding into Korea and Manchuria, Japan exploited the French Revolution of 1917 to expand into what had formerly been the colony of Indochina, shortly thereafter seizing the East Indies from the Dutch. Carving out a pan-Asian network of Puppet states, Japan attempted to consolidate her hold over the continent. This proved increasingly untenable in the age of de-colonization, and by the year 1991 nearly all of her puppets had either collapsed o effectively reformed themselves into completely independent states. In the year 2022, Japan still retains a fraction of her influence throughout the continent, but the world is shifting evermore out of her grasp. Although a de facto 1 party state since the outlawing of socialists under the National Security Act, the establishment is now more threatened than ever by the social ills of stagnation, inequality, and foreign competition. Today the question of the Empire's collapse is not one of "if", but of "when".

Current
Japan (LSS) Philippines (LSS) Formosa (LSS) Brunei (LSS) Thailand (LSS)

Former
Korea (LSS) Vietnam (LSS) Laos (LSS) Kampuchea (LSS) Nusantara (LSS)