History Literature / HakkoIchiu

** Adolf Hitler [[spoiler: is working with Stepan Bandera, Knrad Zuse and Otto Frank on a computer project, and testifies in front of the Reichstag on KPD atrocities against Jews]].

*** [[spoiler:Zhu De later forms the Chinese Soviet Republic.]]
** [[spoiler:After the collapse of the Transcaucasian Soviet Republic against Stalin forces, Beria is exiled to France and is eventually murdered, supposedly on Trotsky's orders, with an icepick. This is an allusion to Trotsky's own death in OTL]].
** [[spoiler:After assassins sent by Trotsky from Paris nearly kill him several times, Stalin threatens to send a killer if he doesn't stop wanting to kill him, and warns he wouldn't need to send a second. This is a direct allusion to Josip Broz Tito's letter to Stalin IOTL]].

** The ''Völkisch'' movement in Germany, spearheaded by Anton Drexel and Ernst Röhm, who run the ''Deutsche Volkspartei'' (DVP), advocates 'Germanism' and anti-Communism while holding left-wing positions on economics.
** Russian Fascist Party (RFP) advocates returning Russia to its pre-WW borders and is against the Jews, Japan and for the Czar and 'Eurasianism.'

** While not originally intended, the Japanese have allied with the restored Qing Empire to keep things interesting.
*** [[spoiler:China later mostly reunifies under the Chinese Soviet Republic.]]

*** The Russian Empire snuffed out pretty much everyone, except for the 'Republic of Green Ukraine', which became the 'Far Eastern Republic', annexing both the Czech-Slovak state, and the Buryat state.
*** In the territories lost to the Germans have been created a Kingdom of Poland, an Hetmanate of the Ukraine, a Kingdom of Lithuania and an United Baltic Duchy. After Germany's revolution, all these states become independent, with Kaiser Wilhelm II taking up refuge in Livonia.

*** [[spoiler: Germany later annexes Austria.]]

** Augustus IV, originally a German prince, take the interests of his new Polish subjects against those of Germany and Austria-Hungary; later going to war against Germany in the 1930s to annex Posen and Wartheland.
** [[spoiler: Anna Roosevelt, daughter of FDR]] becomes Empress of Japan.

** He later revolts and loses.

** What the Emperor orders against all echelons of Japanese society after 1936's attempt.

** The 1923 Tokyo Treaty, originally a naval limitation agreement, became an anti-Communist concord.

** Wilhelm II turned the United Baltic Duchy, renamed "Kingdom of Livonia," into this. He isn't very popular.
** The French anti-communist [[UsefulNotes/GaulsWithGrenades military personnel]], led by Field Marshal Foch, have fled to Algiers after Commies took over the mainland. Civilians followed as well, but many did not. [[spoiler: It later breaks up into further pieces, after disagreements on who to succeed Foch.]]

*** [[spoiler:He became the Russian Prime Minister, though.]]

** [[UsefulNotes/TheRulersOfNorthKorea Kim Song-ju]] designs tanks for Mitsubishi.

** Adolf Hitler [[spoiler: is working with Stepan Bandera, Knrad Zuse and Otto Frank on a computer project, and testifies in front of the Reichstag on Communist atrocities against Jews]].

** Benito Mussolini invades Ethiopia to drum up nationalism in Italy, and used agents to spread rumors of smuggling of weapons to Communists in Southern Africa.

The timeline is currently in an indefinite hiatus ,but you can still read this timeline [[http://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/%E5%85%AB%E7%B4%98%E4%B8%80%E5%AE%87-hakk%C5%8D-ichiu.403839 here]].

'''八紘一宇 - Hakkō Ichiu''' is an ongoing [[AlternateHistory timeline]] written by Asami (formerly Sakura_F) on WebSite/AlternateHistoryDotCom.

You can read this timeline [[http://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/%E5%85%AB%E7%B4%98%E4%B8%80%E5%AE%87-hakk%C5%8D-ichiu.403839 here]].

* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: [[spoiler:The Anglo-Japanese Alliance left UsefulNotes/WorldWarI after an isolationist UnitedStates severed loans to Britain and the Entente]].

* RedOctober:
** Not as successful in Russia. With no Lenin, Trotsky takes over the Bolsheviks. This leads to the central Imperial government deposing Nicholas II, and installing Grand Duchess Tatiana as the new Tsarina. She is supported by the Prince Lvov, Marshal Denikin, and ''Stalin'', of all people.
** Astounding success in France, creating the new French communist regime.

* NoMoreEmperors: The Chinese Empire is overthrown in 1912, as OTL, [[spoiler:but Puyi eventually gets his throne back, and then loses it again]].

* TheIrishQuestion: Ireland witnesses a rebellion after Britain is pulled out of the [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarI war]], which is crushed because of the [[WeAreStrugglingTogether divisions]] between the rebels.

** Hardliners in the [[KatanasOfTheRisingSun Imperial Japanese Army]] attempted, during the October 6th Incident, to take over so as to [[DayOfTheJackboot establish an absolute monarchy]] with the Emperor at the helm and the Diet dissolved after the civilian government curtailed [[EvilColonialist their powers]] in Formosa and Korea.

* CommieNazis: The Communist government that takes over France after WW1 is very nationalistic and anti-Semitic.

** [[spoiler:After the colapse of the Transcaucasian Soviet Republic against Stalin forces, Beria is exiled to France and is eventually murdered, supposedly on Trotsky's orders, with an icepick. This is an allusion to Trotsky's own death in OTL]].

** ImperialRussia was divided between a Reformed Empire standing with Emprerss Tatiana, a Nicholas II-restoration movement in Siberia, a Trotsky and Bukharin-led Soviet State, later Transcaucasian Soviet Republic, [[spoiler:who is destroyed by Stalin after the Caucasian War against the Beria-ruled regime]], a Republic of Green Ukraine, a Buryat Republic and, most surprising, a ''[[ItMakesSenseInContext Revolutionary Government of the Federation of Czechs and Slovaks in Siberia]]''.

*** The Free State of Thrace, under British suzerainety, has been established, populayed with Greeks and Turks, with encouraged British settlement.

* CommieNazis: The Communist government that takes over France after WW1 is very nationalistic and anti-semitic.

* Main/TheGreatDepression: Strikes as OTL most of the main economies; Japan has stored money and stimuled the economy, among them the weapons and textile sectors, although they had to reduce their stimulus.
* HeirClubForMen: Prince Yasuhito proclamed the Succession Act of 1936 null and void and consequently denied Emperor Hirohito's daughters any right to rule.

** The 1933 Red Summer witnesses several atrocities by Communists in Germany, Ireland, the United States, Japan, China and Mongolia, such as murders, assaults and arsons.

** Adolf Hitler [[spoiler: is working with Stepan Bandera, Knrad Zuse and *Otto Frank* on a computer project, and *testify in front of the Reichstag on Communist atrocities against Jews*]].

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* With the Constitunalists in Power, There is no Manchukuo and Pacific War.
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* RichardNixontheUsedCarSalesman:

** [[spoiler:After the colapse of the Transcaucasian Soviet Republic against Stalin forces, Beria exiles in France and is murdered, supposedly on Trotsky's orders, by an icepick]].
** [[spoiler:After being sent killer by Trotsky from Paris, Stalin threatens to send a killer if he doesn't stop wanting to kill him, and sarnw he wouldn't need to send a second]].

** Ireland is divided between the United Kingdom and the Dominion of Ireland.

** The ''[[ItMakesSenseInContext Chinese Stalinists]]'' are a left faction in the KMT which is contesting the Party with President Sun Yat-sen.

** Augustus IV, originally a German prince, take the interests of his new Polish subjects against those of Germany and Austria-Hungary. This also happens in Ukraine.

* NoMoreEmperors: The Chinese Empire is overthrown in 1912, as OTL, [[spoiler:but Puyi eventually gets his throne back]].

* ThePromisedLand: Far-East Zionism aims to turn the FER into a Jewish Homeland. Russian, Polish, Czech, Slovak, Buryat, Korean and Japanese immigration is encouraged but Chinese and Manchus aren't.

** The ''Sakurakai'' banned the Social Democratic Party in an attempt to satiate some of the less insane hardliners.

** Admiral Alexander Kolchak and General Pyotr Wrangel led a movement for the restoration of Nicholas II and lead an abortive coup in Siberia. They are defeated.
** Wilhelm II turned the United Baltic Duchy, renamed "Kingdom of Livonia," into this.
** The French anti-communist [[UsefulNotes/GaulsWithGrenades military personnel]], led by Field Marshal Foch, have fled to Algiers after Commies took over the mainland. Civilians followed as well, but many did not. Indochina is ''de facto'' autonomous [[spoiler:before being annexed by Japan]].

** Baron Ungern replaced Bogd Khan as Khan of Mongolia, and intends to unite China, if he can muster it [[spoiler:after already crushing the Yuan empire]].

** UsefulNote/CharlesDeGaulle [[spoiler:led the Québéquois secessionists rebels during the Red Summer]].

* AllohistoricalAllusion: [[spoiler:The Long March is now held by Chen Duxiu fleeing the Kuomintang Republic. They seize land from the Yuan Empire and create a mountainous rural base to energize their revolution.]]

** ImperialRussia was divided between a Reformed Empire standing with Emprerss Tatiana, a Nicholas II-restoration movement in Siberia, a Trotsky and Bukharin-led Soviet State, a Republic of Green Ukraine, a Buryat Republic and, most surprising, a ''[[ItMakesSenseInContext Revolutionary Government of the Federation of Czechs and Slovaks in Siberia]]''.

* TheCoup: Hardliners in the [[KatanasOfTheRisingSun Imperial Japanese Army]] attempted, during the October 6th Incident, to take over so as to [[DayOfTheJackboot establish an absolute monarchy]] with the Emperor at the helm and the Diet dissolved after the civilian government curtailed [[EvilColonialist their powers]] in Formosa and Korea.

** They took over Austria, Bavaria (only briefly) and France.

* ElectiveMonarchy: As OTL, Yuan Shikai is elected Emperor of China but unlike OTL he [[spoiler:and his son]] ''keep'' his crown, but only barely, as the core provinces of China erupt into revolt.

* GoingNative: Augustus IV, originally a German prince, take the interests of his new Polish subjects against those of Germany and Austria-Hungary. This also happens in Ukraine.

** The French anti-communist [[UsefulNotes/GaulsWithGrenades military personnel]], led by Field Marshal Foch, have fled to Algiers after Commies took over the mainland. Civilians followed as well, but many did not. Indochina is ''de facto'' autonomous.

The author described, in this TL, how would evolve an ImperialJapan after Constitutionalists and Liberals, united in the ''Sakurakai '', managed to get in power in the 1910s against the Nationalist Imperial Alliance.

* AllohistoricalAllusion: [[spoiler:The Long March is now held by Chen Duxiu fleeing the Kuomintang Republic]].

* AllohistoricalAllusion: [[spoiler:The Long March is now held by Chen Duxiu fleeing the Yuan empire]].

*** While not originally intended, the Japanese have allied with the restored Qing Empire to keep things interesting.

* GoingNative: Augustus IV, originally a German prince, take the interests of his new Polish subjects against those of Germany and Austria-Hungary.
** This also happens in Ukraine.
* TheIrishQuestion: Ireland witnesses a rebellion after Britain is pulled out of the [[WorldWarOne war]], which is crushed because of the [[WeAreStrugglingTogether divisions]] between the rebels.

* ScrewThisImOuttaHere:
** [[spoiler:The Anglo-Japanese Alliance left WorldWarOne after an isolationist UnitedStates severed loans to Britain and the Entente]].

** Yuan Shikai's China, after losing all of the core parts of China, being pushed into the steppe [[spoiler:[[ItGotWorse then into oblivion]] after being crushed by the Khan Sternberg's troops]].

** The French anti-communist [[UsefulNotes/GaulsWithGrenades military personnel]], led by Field Marshal Foch, have fled to Algiers after Commies took over the mainland. Civilians followed as well, but many did not.

** Mao Zedong is leading a center-'right'' faction in the KMT, albeit with Socialist sympathies.

** Baron Ungern replaced Bogd Khan as Khan of Mongolia, and intends to unite China, if he can muster it.

** Yuan Shikai's China, after losing all of the core parts of China, being pushed into the steppe.

** The French anti-communist [[GaulsWithGrenades military personnel]], led by Field Marshal Foch, have fled to Algiers after Commies took over the mainland. Civilians followed as well, but many did not.

** Austria-Hungary is divided into [[spoiler:an Austrian Soviet Republic, a Republic of Slovenia, a Republic of Croatia, a Republic of Bosnia, a Kingdom of Hungary and Czechoslovakia]].
* BribeBackfire: The [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siemens_scandal Siemens scandal]], which saw Siemens give Japanese naval officers kickbacks, results in the Navy getting a reduced budget. This is as OTL.
* TheCoup: Hardliners in the [[KatanasOfTheRisingSun Imperial Army]] attempted, during the October 6th Incident, to take over so as to [[DayOfTheJackboot establish an absolute monarchy]] with the emperor at the helm and a Diet dissolved forever after the civilian government curtailed [[EvilColonialist their powers]] in Formosa and Korea.

* EmergencyAuthority: After the October 6th Incident, Minobe made the Diet pass the National Security Act to fight against [[BlackShirt militarist hardliners]] and [[DirtyCommunist left-wing radicals]].

** Played straight with the hardliners, who protest when more liberties are given to the natives of the colonies.
* GoingNative: Augustus IV, originally a German prince, take the interests of his new Polish suibjects against those of Germany and Austria-Hungary.

** Not as successful in Russia. With no Lenin, Trotsky takes over the Bolsheviks. This leads to the central Imperial government deposing Nicholas II, and installing Grand Duchess Tatiana as the new Tsarina. She is supported by the Prince Lvov, Denikin, and ''Stalin'', of all people.

** The ''Sakurakai'' banned the Social Democratic Party as a nod to the Imperial Alliance.
** After Communists are even more successful than OTL, American isolationism collapses after Theodore Roosevelt gives the 'Tides of Change' speech and is elected to a third term over an isolationist regime.

** Mustapha Kemal Ataturk died as an anonymous revolutionary fighting against Allies and their Treaty of Sèvres.

** Sun Yat-Sen berates the Kuomintang for its divisions between members and factions.

->''The contrast between that which preceded the funeral car and that which followed it was striking indeed. Before it went old Japan; after it came new Japan''

Suffice to say this world is ''very'' different compared to our reality.

** [[http://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/%E5%85%AB%E7%B4%98%E4%B8%80%E5%AE%87-hakk%C5%8D-ichiu.403839/page-3#post-13659659 China is divided]] in several states: three Republicans and two Empires; along with ethnic separatists in Tibet, Manchuria and Mongolia and seven cliques. Later, a Trotskyite "Soviet Republic" is briefly created.
*** This is part of the strategy of Jepanese PM Inoue to keep China weak.
** ImperialRussia is divided in a Reformed Empire standing with Emprerss Tatiana, a Nicholas II-restaurationnist movement in Siberia, a Trotsky and Bukharin-led Soviet State, a Republic of Green Ukraine, a Buryat Republic and, most surprising, a ''[[ItMakesSenseInContext Revolutionary Government of the Federation of Czechs and Slovaks in Siberia]]''.
*** In the territories lost to the Germans have been created a Kingdom of Poland, an Hetmanate of the Ukraine, a Kingdom of Lithuania and an United Baltic Duchy, all puppets of the Central Powers.

** Austria-Hungary is divided into [[spoiler:an Austrian Soviet Republic, a Republic of Slovenia, a Republic of Croatia, a Republic of Bosnia, a Kingdom of Hungary and a Czechoslovakia]].
* BribeBackfire: The [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siemens_scandal Siemens scandal]], which saw Siemens give Japanese naval officers kickbacks, results in the Navy getting a reduced budget.
* TheCoup: Hardliners in the [[KatanasOfTheRisingSun Imperial Army]] attempted, during the OCtober 6th Incident, to take over so as to [[DayOfTheJackboot establish an absolute monarchy]] with the emperor at the helm and a Diet dissolved forever after the civilian government curtailed [[EvilColonialist their powers]] in Formosa and Korea.

** They took over Austria, Bavaria and France.
** In Japan, they attempt to murder Hirohito.
** The ''Chinese Stalinists'' are a left faction in the KMT which is contesting the Party with President Sun Yat-sen.

** Emperor Taisho is wounded during the October 6th Incident and dies from resulting injuries four years after.

* ElectiveMonarchy: As OTL, Yuan Shikai is elected Emperor of China but unlike OTL he [[spoiler:and his son]] ''keep'' his crown.

* EndOfAnEra: Literal Trope, since the Japanese eras are set from the timelife of the Emperor: the story starts by the burial of Emperor Meiji, marking the end of the Meiji era.

* TheIrishQuestion: Ireland witnesses a revellion after Britain is pulled out of the [[WorldWarOne war]], which is crushed befause of the [[WeAreStrugglingTogether divisions]] between the rebels.
* NoMoreEmperors: The Chinese Empire is overthrown in 1912, as OTL, [[spoiler:but Puyi eventually get a throne back]].

** Very different from OTL: this time, the Reformed Imperial Government, led by Great-Duchess Tatiana, has, as supporters, the Prince Lvov and ''Stalin'', with the ''Pravda'' defending this regime, while Trotsky led a separate Soviet State and Kolckak led ''yet'' another in Siberia, seeking to reestablish Nicholas II as czar.

** After Communists are even more successful than OTL, American isolationnism let place to a new diplomacy after Theodore Roosevelt castigates America for cowardise in his "Tide of Change" speech, giving him a ''third'' term as President.

** Admiral Alexander Kolchak and General Pyotr Wrangel led a movement for the restauration of Nicholas II and have created a state in Siberia.

** The French anti-communists [[GaulsWithGrenades military personnel]], led by Field Marshal Foch, have fled to Algiers after Commies took over the mainland.

** Mustapha Kemal died as an anonymous soldier fighting against Allies and their Treaty of Sèvres.

** Without Lenin, Stalin is the left-wing of the Tatiana Imperial government.
** Baron Ungern replaced Bogd Khan as Khan of Mongolia.

** [[spoiler:The Anglo-Japanese Alliance left WorldWarOne after an isolationnist UnitedStates cut any credits to Britain]].

** Sun Yat-Sen berate his Kuomintang for its divisions between members and factions.
** Irish rebels are divided in IRA members and Communists, and both infer-fought themselves into oblivion.