So then. After my very very emberassing failure of my last AAR ( *tries to melt into floor * ) o I've decided to give it another try. I hereby swear by all the Suns of Vulcan that this AAR will be finished, no matter what.
HOI2 DDA, normal/agressive, mods: SKIF, some minor graphics mods, maybe some events.
After the end of the Great War Japan was a nation at a crossroad: It had been victorious against the Central Powers, was closely allied to the Entente and had gained various colonies all throughout the Pacific. Yet the nation was not sure where to go. The Military was growing more belligerent by the week, and the frail democracy of Japan was establishing never really got off the Ground. Emporer Taishō realized that this road would spell doom for Japan in the long run. In an imesurable breach of Tradition he adressed the Japanese nation on January 36, 1925, and announced a drastic reform of the Japanese Gouvernemental system. What had remained of the frail democracy was swept away, the Emporer would once more directly rule the Japanese Empire, like before the Mejji restoration. The Army, who had been plotting to become the predominant power in the State was not exactly pleased by this developement, but did nothing. Despite Japans long history of political assasinations a direct attack on the Emporer was something so unimaginable that it wasn't even rempotely considered. Taishō died in 1926. Hirohito, his son, took the throne only a day after his fathers death. His ascencion to the throne marked the end of the "2nd restoration". Taishō had not only reinstated the feudalism in Japan, but he ahd also tried to dial back on what he called "western decadence" and had moved towards making Japan a 16th century nation in the 20th. Hirohito, although weaker than his father ended that. The Japanese Navy, Army and the under his rule established independent Imperial Japanese Air Force once again recieved all the funding they had been screaming fore since the end of the great war. Hirohito knew that Japans industry, hit hard by the great depression could not exist without more resources. The western Powers however, growing suspicious of Japans Imperial Ambitions refused to sell the much-needed raw materials to Japan, and so Hirohito, who knew that Japan was not yet ready for war against the three most powerful nations on earth, turned his eyes elsewhere: China. In 1932, six years after his crownation, Hirohito ordered the Imperial Japanese Army to move into Manchuria, officially to "protect the manchurian and korean people from the Chaos that reigns in China". The Army established a puppet nation with the former Chinese Emporer Pu Jy as a figurehead. Although Japans immediate problems were now solved the Army grew more and more greedily. The clique in the High Command in Tokio was confident that they could pressure the weak Emporer Hirohito and the rest of the Armed forces into attaking south at the earliest possible date. The plot was uncovered, but the main conspirators could flee, and continued to recruit young officers for their cause, but for the moment the "conflict" between the Emporer and the Army was stalemated. With this instability Japan began the year 1936.
Emporer Taishō, the father of the second restoration.
Emporer Hirohito
first update to follow soon.
HOI2 DDA, normal/agressive, mods: SKIF, some minor graphics mods, maybe some events.
After the end of the Great War Japan was a nation at a crossroad: It had been victorious against the Central Powers, was closely allied to the Entente and had gained various colonies all throughout the Pacific. Yet the nation was not sure where to go. The Military was growing more belligerent by the week, and the frail democracy of Japan was establishing never really got off the Ground. Emporer Taishō realized that this road would spell doom for Japan in the long run. In an imesurable breach of Tradition he adressed the Japanese nation on January 36, 1925, and announced a drastic reform of the Japanese Gouvernemental system. What had remained of the frail democracy was swept away, the Emporer would once more directly rule the Japanese Empire, like before the Mejji restoration. The Army, who had been plotting to become the predominant power in the State was not exactly pleased by this developement, but did nothing. Despite Japans long history of political assasinations a direct attack on the Emporer was something so unimaginable that it wasn't even rempotely considered. Taishō died in 1926. Hirohito, his son, took the throne only a day after his fathers death. His ascencion to the throne marked the end of the "2nd restoration". Taishō had not only reinstated the feudalism in Japan, but he ahd also tried to dial back on what he called "western decadence" and had moved towards making Japan a 16th century nation in the 20th. Hirohito, although weaker than his father ended that. The Japanese Navy, Army and the under his rule established independent Imperial Japanese Air Force once again recieved all the funding they had been screaming fore since the end of the great war. Hirohito knew that Japans industry, hit hard by the great depression could not exist without more resources. The western Powers however, growing suspicious of Japans Imperial Ambitions refused to sell the much-needed raw materials to Japan, and so Hirohito, who knew that Japan was not yet ready for war against the three most powerful nations on earth, turned his eyes elsewhere: China. In 1932, six years after his crownation, Hirohito ordered the Imperial Japanese Army to move into Manchuria, officially to "protect the manchurian and korean people from the Chaos that reigns in China". The Army established a puppet nation with the former Chinese Emporer Pu Jy as a figurehead. Although Japans immediate problems were now solved the Army grew more and more greedily. The clique in the High Command in Tokio was confident that they could pressure the weak Emporer Hirohito and the rest of the Armed forces into attaking south at the earliest possible date. The plot was uncovered, but the main conspirators could flee, and continued to recruit young officers for their cause, but for the moment the "conflict" between the Emporer and the Army was stalemated. With this instability Japan began the year 1936.
Emporer Taishō, the father of the second restoration.
Emporer Hirohito
first update to follow soon.