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Japan was an island nation in East Asia. The country was formerly a member of the Axis Powers of World War II before being defeated by the United States and remade as a thriving democracy and major economic power. The nation has maintained a unitary constitutional monarchy with an emperor and an elected parliament. In 2018, under threat of annihilation and with overwhelming hostile forces amassing near its border, Japan is forced to join the Greater Korean Republic.

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Beginning in 2014, Japan embraced a surge of nationalism and anti-Korean sentiment in response to the rise of the Greater Korean Republic. Due to the global economic crisis, Japanese-American relations deteriorated in which Japan and the U.S. accused each other of unacceptable imposition of duties on imports in order to protect respective domestic industries. The inability to find common ground sharing the burden of their military alliance in an apparent new era of East Asian peace consequently ended it permanently two years later with the U.S. military withdrawing their presences from Japan.[1]

In July 2017, anti-Korean sentiment escalated to bloody race riots when alleged Korean agents attempted to assassinate the Japanese royal family. Although Japan's intelligence agency Naicho indicated that the prime suspects were reactionary nationals, the general public blamed the so-called "North" Korean secret agents and Korean residents and Korean-owned businesses were attacked by angry Japanese nationalists.[2]

Though the Japanese government condemned the attacks and tried to maintain order, the Korean government accused the Japanese of allowing their soldiers and policemen to participate in systematic attacks against ethnic Koreans after providing photographic evidence at a United Nations meeting in Brussels. The Koreans demanded international condemnation against Japan. Such demands availed Korea little, despite unofficial estimates of as many as ten thousand Koreans being slaughtered at the hands of Japanese nationalists that forced many Korean residents to flee from the country.[3]

Korean-Japanese War

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Japan surrenders to the GKR.

In April 2018, Kim Jong-un, enraged at the world's idleness as Koreans were slain simply due to their heritage in Japan, declared a "heavenly mandate" to protect Koreans worldwide and the GKR declared war on Japan, citing lack of action from the United Nations and the international community over the last seven months even as the Korean death toll mounted.[4] 

In the brief invasion, KPA forces took many "strategic targets" and destroyed the Chugoku nuclear power plant to show resolve, killing thousands of lives instantly and laying a death sentence on countless others. Many cities and towns were evacuated to avoid the radiation, and Korean Special Forces took over 26 nuclear plants, most near metropolitan areas.[5] The international community condemned the incursion by Korea into Japan, calling the actions a "war crime" and "an act of terror"; however, many nations were unable to respond, citing domestic issues. After much destruction, including the ravaging of Japan's southern coast, and with Korean forces advancing on Tokyo, the Japanese Diet passed an emergency measure, acceding to all of Kim Jong-un's demands, and Japan surrendered to the Greater Korean Republic.[6]

Korean Occupation

In a reversal of history, Japan fell under Korean occupation in which the Korean government claimed to ensure the elimination of Japan's genocide against Koreans. The occupation was denounced by western nations such as the United States, which called for sanctions against the GKR.[7] Furthermore, the United Nations passed a non-binding resolution condemning the destruction of the Chugoku nuclear power plant.[8]

Throughout 2019, the KPA took over Japan's Aerospace Exploration Agency and captured the latest M-V rocket, which was based on the American-made Peacekeeper ICBM, to develop nuclear missiles.[9] The Koreans established prison camps in Japan similar to those still in place in North Korea. Yi Dae-Hyun oversaw public executions in Japan and subsequently earned his code name, "Salmusa."[10] As of 2022, a Japanese resistance movement had been waged against the Korean occupation.[11]

In 2024, the GKR launched the next generation of navigational satellites from the Kagoshima Space Center in the Kagoshima Prefecture.[12] In reality, the launch was the prelude for Korea's invasion of America as one of the GPS satellites carried a high-altitude nuclear device to disable the American power grid. Operation Cocktail was conducted on Japan's Marcus Island and utilized in Operation Water Snake.

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