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Japan: Requests to  join the Western Union.

Protest over the price of tea erupt when the lack of tea production in China (due to a Heat Wave that kills the crop) causes the Japanese to put a Tea Act which puts a tax on tea.

Nervous Soldiers arrest the protestors.

News of the tea shortage price soon causes world panic