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FloweyFan wrote: Who’s the leader of Nihon?

Here’s Nihon’s background from a dev diary:

For now, we shall leave China for another day - and explore Nihon. The Tokugawa rule as of recently has been weak– a major failed uprising by an alliance of the Satsuma and Chōshū clans (known as the Satchō Alliance) in 1868 would prove that the Shogunate’s time left was limited. Nihon however had certainly endured worse. After his father's death, the Shogun who assumed rulership in 1913- Tokugawa Iesato - had proven to be an ineffectual leader. A major earthquake in 1923 and economic meltdown in 1927 eventually lead to the complete domination of the Nihonese economy by the Zaibatsu, large business clique which shared the economy amongst themselves. Not very long after, overextended banks began to close and the Nihonese economy completely collapsed. This lead to the eventual destruction of the Shogunate in 1932 after ultranationalist soldiers marched on Kyoto - leading to the Second Sengoku Jidai.

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Nihon is now broken up into nine warring cliques, vying for control of the nation. While nominally ideological, these factions all have wildly differing ideas on the true fate of the country and its people.

I’ll hand this over to Mop, our lead developer for Nihon.

The first major faction, the initiator of the Sengoku Jidai, is the Kōdōha Clique. The Kōdōha clique are a group of ultranationalist soldiers and army officers led by Sadao Araki– in 1932, they begun the Second Sengoku Jidai after their march on Kyoto, arresting the Emperor and declaring their hegemony over Nihon. They seek to create an ultra-militaristic ultranationalist state ran by the Emperor and assisted by the military, and they have the young blood and popular support to fight for it.

Another faction in Nihon is the Tokugawa themselves. Shogun Iesato rules the Shogunate in exile from his castle in Nagoya, Mikawa. His main power base is Nihon’s conservatives, nobility and samurai although he is unpopular among the Nihonese people. His influence over Nihon is crumbling and his chances of restoring Nihon to the status quo ante bellum are shrinking.

East of the Tokugawa is the Nihonese Red Army. The Nihonese Red Army are the armed militant wing of the Nihonese Communist Party. A non-sectarian group led by Yoshio Shiga consisting of everyone from former Navy officers swayed by the cause, to Marxite centrists, to Anarchists, their goal is to establish a socialist republic in Nihon. They are based in Ezo and control the surrounding countryside. Their army consists of People’s Militia’s– weak, untrained, and under-armed but popular among the people.

Neighboring the Nihonese Red Army ironically is their most hated enemy, the Nihonese bourgeois mobilized into a fighting force. Northern Chūbu is controlled by the Zaibatsu business cliques and their army, largely based around professional mercenaries. Their representative and de facto leader is politician and zaibatsu founder Fusanosuke Kuhara. Originally formed to protect private property in the Chūbu from socialists, the Zaibatsu cliques now seek to reclaim Nihon under a new rule– their rule.

In the northern rural outskirts of Honshu, a uprising has begun consisting of mostly farmers and rural folk. Surrounding the populist politician Jusō Miwa (who has somewhat of a cult of personality), the Nomin Habatsu (Farmers' Clique) is a nationalist and populist party claiming to be the “true” patriots of Nihon seeking to create a democracy that combines mechanisms of direct democracy and representative democracy with checks and balances to make sure that the Nihonese people get the fair and true democracy that they deserve. They have an base with undying loyalty to the cause, but their base region is incredibly underdeveloped.

In the wake of the Sengoku Jidai, the semi-legal liberal Rikken Minseitō (Constitutional Democratic Party) was invited by both the people of the island of Hokkaido and the military garrison in the area to cross the Tsugaru Strait and help construct a liberal republic on Ezo lead by Prime Minister Yoshida Shigeru. However, the people of Hokkaido are currently divided whether or not the Ezo Republic should pull out completely from the Sengoku Jidai, or start to march into Honshu and establish a liberal democracy in Nihon.

In western Honshu, the people and leaders of the Kokumin Dōmei begun to revolt and join the fight as well. The Kokumin Dōmei (National Alliance) are a far right political party lead by Adachi Kenzō that was formed by corporatists wishing to imitate European corporatist movements. They are split between a more standard orthodox corporatist and state socialist faction (which currently has domination over the party) and an ultranationalist Pan-Asianist faction called the Tōhōkai. Their army consists entirely of a clique of anti-Kōdōha Japanese soldiers (known as the Tōseiha among Kōdōha leaders) lead by Hideki Tojo which made a deal with the Kokumin Dōmei to destroy the Kōdōha in exchange for military support– an unstable alliance.

In the wake of the Kōdōha march on Kyoto and the socialist uprising in Ezo, the Satsuma and Chōshū clans of Nihon have reforged the Satchō Alliance, under Shimazu Tadashige, with the same goals as the first Satchō Alliance that failed to restore the Meiji Emperor to his rightful position as ruler of Nihon. Their goals are to restore the Showa Emperor to his rightful position as ruler of Nihon backed up by both a strong advisory council of statesmen and a liberal legislative diet, as well as combining modernity with traditional eastern values and enriching the country. They have near domination over Kyushu, held a small yet well trained samurai army– but they must expel the fascists and begin their march further east into Honshu if they wish to make any serious gains.

Lastly, there is the Yumeshinden Habatsu (Dream Temple Clique) on the island of Shikoku. The Yumeshinden Habatsu are a faction consisting of those who are devotees of the esoteric Okuden Yumeshin-Kyō religious movement, lead by the mysterious prophetess Kotone Nakamura. They are a decentralized, but more mystical, variant of Shintoism that was created when Nakamura was claimed to have been visited by the kami Izanami one night, on Mount Yamainugoku. Their goal is to simply secure their existence and unite Nihon under a decentralized hierocracy, and save Nihon from the vices of environmental destruction, war, and capitalism.

The gist of that is you’re in some god awful civil war. However, seeing as that war began like four years ago now, I’ll let you pick a faction you want to have won the war, and you can play as them