History Characters / TNOGuangdong

->'''Ideology:''' Corporatocracy[[note]]Despotism[[/note]], Corporate Statism[[note]]Fascism[[/note]] (Persistance Path)

* AndThereWasMuchRejoicing: With Suzuki's resignation and Matsuzawa's ascension to the unenviable chair of Chief Executive, Matsushita celebrates with Ibuka about eliminating their two mutaul rivals.

* GoodSmokingEvilSmoking: Komai is the single most despicable executive in Guangdong, and is shown with a cigarette in the Personalist route.

* JoblessParentDrama: In the wake of the Yasuda crisis, Lee's father gets laid off and Lee's siblings have to be pulled from school as a result to keep food on the table.

* TraumaCongaLine: Lee's sister, Wai, gets pulled from school because the family cannot afford it anymore and then gets hit by a truck leaving her in critical condition. Lee doesn't even have time to grieve with long hours at the factory.

%%[[folder:Baron Yasukawa]]
%%->'''Role:''' N/A
%%* HowTheMightHaveFallen: After the Yasuda crisis, Yasukawa returns to Guangdong with his daughter brining what remaining funds they have left with them.
%%* RichesToRags: {{Downplayed}}. Whilst he and his family and not completely impoverished, they can no longer enjoy the luxuries they once had in the aftermath of the Yasuda crisis, such as having to disembark alongside many other destitute Japanese salarymen.
%%[[/folder]]

%%[[folder:Lee Chun]]
%%->'''Role:''' N/A
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%%* JoblessParentDrama: In the wake of the Yasuda crisis, Lee's father gets laid off and Lee's siblings have to be pulled from school as a result to keep food on the table.
%%[[/folder]]

!! Imperial Japanese Army (UNMARKED SPOILERS)

[[folder:Nagano Shigeto]]
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->'''Role:''' Head of State (IJA takeover)
->'''Party:''' Imperial Japanese Army - Martial Law[[note]]Martial law is in effect.\\\
Remain in your homes.\\\
Compliance is mandatory.\\\
Offenders will be shot.[[/note]]
->'''Ideology:''' Ultramilitarism[[note]]Ultranationalism[[/note]]
->'''In-Game Biography''' [[labelnote:Click to Show]]A decade and more passed by in this absurdity of a place, a decade wasted while good Japanese men were slaughtered in pointless fucking wars to satisfy the whims of a lot of money-grubbing traitors. Ten years, ten years frittered away, and for what? So that loyal soldiers of his Majesty the Emperor could be reduced to sapient test rats!\\\
"No more," Nagano Shigeto says.\\\
Tokyo has given its local IJA commander its blessing - as it should have done years ago. Now Nagano Shigeto will bring order to the chaos of the Guangdong riots - just as he helped to do so in China four decades ago. For its countless follies, for the very absurdity of its existence, Guangdong deserves nothing other than to be ended - and Nagano will be the one to bring it about.\\\
Guangdong's innermost apocalypse has been distilled into the force of a single man, who shudders slightly in utter glee at the prospect of putting an end to the corporate experiment that once ruled over the Pearl River Delta. If Guangdong thought it had known war beforehand, it was wrong-\\\
[[gray:-for Nagano Shigeto has no intention of leaving anything in this unnatural hellhole of a state untouched.]][[/labelnote]]
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* AllohistoricalAllusion: Nagano Shigeto was an IJA and later JGSDF officer who served as the Chief of the Ground Staff from 1978 to 1980, and was a politician after 1980. He was most infamous in OTL for publicly denying Japanese war crimes like the Rape of Nanking immediately after becoming the Minister of Justice in 1994, resulting in his resignation 11 days after his appointment. In TNO, Nagano Shigeto's personal leader trait here is ominously called simply "As Nanjing, So Too Guangdong," a reference to his callous OTL views towards the Rape of Nanking.
* ArmiesAreEvil: Of all the possible outcomes for the Guangdong region, the army taking direct control and rampaging across it in an orgy of RapePillageAndBurn is by far the worst, even compared to the literal slavery of the Manchurian model. Komai might be the worst possible normal leader of Guangdong, but Nagano is Guangdong's failstate.
* BerserkButton: Nagano is most infuriated by the Product Testing Research Group sending research divisions to fight in proxy conflicts, viewing them as boondoggles that force his men to fight wars with suspect weaponry for profits like mercenaries.
* DownerEnding: Nagano and the IJA taking over is Guangdong's failstate, as it ends with the IJA going on an incredibly violent rampage throughout the region, and completely dissolving Guangdong as a country.
* EvilerThanThou: While all of Guangdong's other leaders are not very sympathetic, and many of them can drown the corporate state in blood to maintain control and order, Nagano Shigeto will slaughter them all if they can't contain the Oil Crisis riots, demonstrating just how bad things will be for Guangdong's people when he turns his weapons on them next.
* AFatherToHisMen: Perhaps his only sympathetic trait is his care for his men, despising the fact that they are used by the Product Testing Research Group to fight in proxy conflicts across the world, with equipment that has not been tested before, for profit and to sell weaponry. If the IJA takes over Guangdong, he makes sure to have apology cards sent to the families of the men who died fighting in those conflicts.
* GeneralRipper: Despising the megacorporations for "wasting" Japanese lives as "sapient test rats," Shigeto is described as gleeful in his desire to utterly destroy the "unnatural" state of Guangdong and "restore order" by burning it to the ground.
* ThePurge: Nagano starts as he intends to go on, executing all the corporate chiefs and turning Guangdong into a glorified IJA base to prepare for the coming Great Asian War. His "End Corruption" focus art is literally a severed head.
* WalkingSpoiler: It's impossible to talk about Nagano's role in Guangdong's storyline without talking about its climax, and the worst possible outcome of said climax.
* VillainHasAPoint: In an early meeting with Miyazaki, Nagano complains about Suzuki's management of Guangdong, calling the police too ineffective and corrupt for its own good. Even though he doesn't have the Chinese people's best interests in mind, he is making a legitimate complaint about Suzuki.

[[folder:Takeda Goro]]
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->'''Role:''' Chief of Staff[[note]]Head of Government[[/note]] (Nagano cabinet)
->'''Party:''' Imperial Japanese Army - Martial Law (Nagano cabinet)[[note]]Martial law is in effect.\\\
Remain in your homes.\\\
Compliance is mandatory.\\\
Offenders will be shot.[[/note]]
->'''Ideology:''' Ultramilitarism[[note]]Ultranationalism[[/note]]
->'''In-Game Biography''' [[labelnote:Click to Show]]Wherever Nagano Shigeto goes, Takeda Goro follows, for he is his executive officer. Pursuant to this, he has moved laterally to become the administrative face for Guangdong. Some, those who are uninformed or are perhaps simply naive, believe that he will moderate the 'worst excesses' of the army.\\\
Oh, they are wrong. In his view, everything the Army does is necessary to bring back stability to Guangdong. Nothing must be barred from happening, so that peace may be restored quickly. That is how it has always been in situations like this, and there is little reason to change such matters.[[/labelnote]]

* TheDragon: Takeda is fervently loyal to Nagano, being his executive officer. Whatever Nagano wants, Takeda will deliver.
* OnlySaneMan: {{Subverted}}. Many hope that Takeda will moderate the IJA's worst excesses, which is a horrible mischaracterization. Takeda sees Nagano's brutal actions as completely necessary to restore stability back to Guangdong.

[[folder:Murai Sumio]]
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->'''Role:''' Chief of Operations[[note]]Economy Minister[[/note]] (Takeda and Nagano cabinet)
->'''Party:''' Imperial Japanese Army - Martial Law[[note]]Martial law is in effect.\\\
Remain in your homes.\\\
Compliance is mandatory.\\\
Offenders will be shot.[[/note]]
->'''Ideology:''' Ultramilitarism[[note]]Ultranationalism[[/note]]
->'''In-Game Biography''' [[labelnote:Click to Show]]A graduate of the Imperial Japanese Army Academy in 1945, Brigadier General Murai is one of the growing cohort of IJA officers whose primary experience has been in the post-war pacification and occupation missions in the Co-Prosperity Sphere. Having spent much of their career in the armored corps, then-Colonel Murai transitioned to staff duties in 1966 as the logistics chief for the IJA garrison in Guangdong.\\\
Following the chaos of the Guangdong Riots and the IJA's seizure of control, Murai has received a brevet promotion to Brigadier General, to serve as Guangdong's emergency Financial Secretary. The wayward child of the Sphere will return to serve Japan and the Imperial Army - by order and discipline.[[/labelnote]]

* EvilColonialist: Most of Murai's experience consists of occupation and pacification missions in the conquered lands of the CPS.
* GeneralRipper: Murai serves as a brevetted Brigadier General with the IJA while putting down the Guangdong riots and is just as vicious as Nagano in his goals to turn Guangdong into a war machine for the coming war against China.

[[folder:Watanabe Keitaro]]
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->'''Role:''' Chief of Intelligence[[note]]Security Minister[[/note]] (Nagano cabinet), Head of Government (Takeda cabinet)
->'''Party:''' Imperial Japanese Army - Martial Law[[note]]Martial law is in effect.\\\
Remain in your homes.\\\
Compliance is mandatory.\\\
Offenders will be shot.[[/note]]
->'''Ideology:''' Ultramilitarism[[note]]Ultranationalism[[/note]]
->'''In-Game Biography''' [[labelnote:Click to Show]]Colonel Watanabe Keitaro has served Japan in close proximity to its enemies - as an intelligence officer. Serving at times as a military attaché in foreign lands, and at other times as a combat intelligence officer managing informants and reconnaissance fighting the Sphere's many insurgencies, Colonel Watanabe was assigned to serve as the chief of intelligence for the IJA garrison in 1961, bringing a fresh pair of eyes to a position only increasing in importance.\\\
Now, with Guangdong in chaos and the IJA asserting its control over the wayward territory, Watanabe has assumed direct control over Guangdong's security apparatus. Where handcuffs and truncheons proved inadequate, the bayonet and the bullet will more than prove their worth.[[/labelnote]]

* GeneralRipper: Just like the rest of the IJA under Nagano's command, he is utterly ruthless and eager to use as much unrestrained force as possible to put down the Guangdong riots.
* SociopathicSoldier: When Nagano informs his generals that they are allowed to use as much force as they feel is necessary to keep the people of Guangdong in line, all Watanabe can do is grin before remarking he already was doing this.
* TheSpymaster: Watanabe serves as the chief of intelligence for the IJA garrison in Guangdong, with his previous experience including acting as a combat intelligence officer conducting counter insurgency and managing informants in CPS territory.

* KingmakerScenario: Knowing he still has power for the time being, Matsuzawa can try to tilt the scales of power with the outcome of the Yasuda auction to favour either Morita or Matsushita, plotting to call one of the CEOs and tell them which assets would be worth their money.

* EvenEvilHasStandards: When Sōmuch seizes power in Manchuria after Puyi's passing, Ibuka will internally condemn the sycophants of the Sōmucho who rush to Sakomizu's side so they can retain their power, not even having the decency to wait for the President's address to finish.

* PragmaticVillainy: As he tells Morita in "Scouring the Streets", he will never appease the Triads or their gambling businesses, considering them "wasteful pursuits" that stand in the way of his technocratic vision. He also institutes ruthless civil service programs to crack down on cronyism, incompetence, and corruption at the government level, since these things impede his vision.

->'''Role:''' Head of Guangdong Kenpeitai[[note]]Security Minister[[/note]] (Suzuki and Matsuzawa cabinet), Chief Secretary[[note]]Head of Government[[/note]] (Komai cabinet)

->'''Role:''' External Secretary[[note]]Foreign Minister[[/note]] ([[spoiler:Nagano cabinet]])

->'''Role:''' Chief of Operations[[note]]Economy Minister[[/note]] (Nagano cabinet)

->'''Role:''' Chief of Intelligence[[note]]Security Minister[[/note]] (Nagano cabinet)

* CorruptPolitician: Matsuzawa's Yasuda conglomerate is one of the Big Four zaibatsus in Japan and the largest of the corporations in Guangdong. As such, Matsuzawa's pockets are deep, allowing him to buy favors in the Legislative Council and accumulate more power for himself.

* TooDesperateToBePicky: If Matsuzawa goes with Morita's plan to support Chinese and Zhujin businesses, an event describing an interaction in a failing Chinese store. An employee gets frustrated that the Japanese would play nice after oppressing them for decades, but his boss states that the business is in no position to turn down aid allowing them to hang on, even by a thread.

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* DoNotGoGentle: Matsuzawa is disheartened to hear of succeeding Suzuki and being given the mountains of paperwork he must now handle as Chief Executive, but he's determined to do as much as he can to spite the people who put him in charge.

* EnemyMine: Morita senses an opportunity to increase Sony's profile when Yasuda begins supporting Suzuki's efforts to bring Guangdong in-line with Japan's interests. He knows Suzuki needs someone to tip the scales and that forming a temporary truce with the two is the best opportunity to level the playing field against Matsushita and Fujitsu. If Suzuki seeks to gather support for the RLSO from Sony, this alliance can develop further, both wanting to prevent Fujitsu from gutting the bill.

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* DirtyCop: The Guangdong Police Force consists of little more than blue-clad, jack-booted thugs with endless pockets and little oversight.

* JustifiedCriminal: {{Invoked}} by the corrupt police officers who extract bribes and steal money from random people. They often self-justify their own crimes as the only way to support their families, since they aren't paid enough by their bosses and it's a dog-eat-dog world in Guangdong. It's usually an attempt to ease their guilty conscience, even if it may not be so successful.

* BerserkButton: Upon hearing a Manchurian minister call Guangdong a "trifle" to Manchuria's own projections, Suzuki's blood boils and he becomes more determined one-up them.

** Komai is encouraged via gameplay mechanics to cozy up to the Kempeitai and make use of the control they offer to improve his support at the expense of rampant corruption. [[spoiler: But Komai is not immune to their displeasure; he can be as much a victim of Nagano Shigeto being put in control during the Oil Crisis as any other Guangdong leader and he will be no less screwed in that scenario.]]

* AsLongAsItSoundsForeign: An in-universe example, where the word "Zhujin" comes from combining "Zhu", Mandarin for pearl, and "Jin", On-yomi for people. It highlights just how artificial the state of Guangdong is.

* NotSoSimilar: When confronted by a student about the artificial nature of the Zhujin and idea of a Guangdong nation, a professor tries to defend their integrity by pointing to the Kyōwa-go, a new language formed in Manchuria from the assimilation of Japanese and Mandarin. However, the student points out the false equivalence by noting how that language had twenty-seven years to develop, while Guangdong has only existed for twelve years and can't naturally form its own culture in that short of a timeframe. The professor can't adequately respond to this and dodges the question from then on.

* RuleOfSymbolism: While moving crates of raw opium, one of the loaders accidentally drops one of the crates and unveils the pouches of the drug, covered in congealed blood, introducing the criminal and often-violent opium wars that are waged between the Yakuza and the Triads.
* TimedMission: Guangdong has an annual GDP target set by Japan and tens of thousands of Japanese investors who expect returns on their investments. Failure to meet these targets will significantly hurt the ruling Chief Executive politically.

* ButThouMust: In the Yasuda investigation event chain, Suzuki can uncover the aforementioned company's corruption by either investigating their payments, Minezaka firm's activities, or the corporation's connection to Ino. All choices lead to the same outcome of Suzuki confronting Matsuzawa about it, where he can either trust that he's not involved in the conspiracy or accuse him of being part of it.

* CorruptPolitician: Suzuki has kept most his clique loyal to him by donating them sizable "gifts" to buy their allegiance.

* EvenEvilHasStandards: While Suzuki is intent of fulfilling Japan's goal of colonisation, he isn't fond of the Kenpeitai's worst excesses and suggests to Miyazaki to tone them down for more inconspicuous methods.

* TemptingFate: If he finds evidence of Yasuda's corruption, but doesn't accuse Matsuzawa of being involved in it, Suzuki will breathe a sigh of relief that the crisis has seemingly been averted, so long as everything is kept under wraps. This ends up blowing up in his face when the corruption is exposed anyways and economically devastates the Sphere.

* BadassBoast: After assuring Suzuki that he'll support his RSLO proposal, Matsuzawa sternly warns that he uphold his side of the agreement, reminding him that Yasuda has a "long memory" and will be around far longer than either of them. The final comment leaves Suzuki a bit anxious.

* PragmaticVillainy: Matsuzawa supports Suzuki's proposed RSLO, but only because Yasuda's business won't be affected by it and there's no reason to sour his partnership with Suzuki.

* RetiredMonster: Many of the commanders in the IJA garrison are old officers who are long past their prime, having never faced justice for the atrocities they committed in the Second Sino-Japanese Wat and now answering to a smaller clique of officers, represented by Nagano.

* DystopiaIsHard: All the repression and exploitation done by the corporations foments a simmering hatred in the Chinese and Zhujin, [[spoiler:culiminating in massive riots, intended to bring down the corporate experiment for good. Their strength and radicalism needs to be carefully managed by either negotiation or more extreme force. Failure to do so leads the IJA to intervene and overthrow the Chief Executive.]]

** While he has no special affection for the Chinese, Suzuki is keenly aware that without the resources from Tokyo to maintain a strong security apparatus, naked repression is not a sustainable solution to Chinese dissident activity. He makes the fateful decision to offer token worker rights to offset this issue, burning lots of financial and political capital in the process, which ultimately spells his doom in the wake of the Yasuda crisis.

->'''Matsuzawa:''' ''"Sometimes, politics is a nasty business."''

* EnemyMine: Morita senses an opportunity to increase Sony's profile when Yasuda begins supporting Suzuki's efforts to bring Guangdong in-line with Japan's interests. He knows Suzuki needs someone to tip the scales and that forming a temporary truce with the two is the best opportunity to level the playing field against Matsushita and Fujitsu.

* ThePollyanna: One Chinese restaurant owner had his building expropriated at the end of World War II so that Japanese manager can replace him. He now only owns a rickey shack of a food stall to continue working, but he remains optimistic about his situation, having developed a good number of regulars to his business and still finding his satisfaction with his job.

->'''Ruling Party:''' Kanton Minseifu[[note]]Guangdong Civil Administration[[/note]] [[note]]The Legislative Council is, in theory, an apolitical advisory body appointed by the Chief Executive to advise and legitimize their actions as part of an unified political corpus - the Guangdong Civil Administration. In practice, of course, the capture of the Legislative Council by corporate interests have made political factionalism a fact of life. Those who remain loyal to the appointed Chief Executive Suzuki's vision, to the prerogatives of the state above that of moneyed interests, are seen as the executors of the Civil Administration in the Legislative Council.[[/note]]

->'''Party:''' Kanton Minseifu[[note]]Guangdong Civil Administration[[/note]] [[note]]The Legislative Council is, in theory, an apolitical advisory body appointed by the Chief Executive to advise and legitimize their actions as part of an unified political corpus - the Guangdong Civil Administration. In practice, of course, the capture of the Legislative Council by corporate interests have made political factionalism a fact of life. Those who remain loyal to the appointed Chief Executive Suzuki's vision, to the prerogatives of the state above that of moneyed interests, are seen as the executors of the Civil Administration in the Legislative Council.[[/note]]

->'''Party:''' Rippoukai - Zaikaiha[[note]]The ascendancy of Guangdong's corporations in economic life came with a corresponding need for their interests to be represented in politics. The members of the Legislative Council - supposedly apolitical and independent - proved to be easily swayed by promises of money, status, and power offered by the corporates, in exchange for their loyalty. These individuals - now more loyal to their corporate benefactor than their Chief Executive - form the backbone of Corporate political influence in Guangdong.[[/note]]

->'''Party:''' Rippoukai - Minseiha[[note]]Money will never not be a part of Guangdong's politics. But the logic of money is not infallible, argue some, and sometimes the impulse to maximize profit must be balanced against the need to preserve stability. Whether they be more paternalistic corporate men or unreconstituted believers in a civil society backed by more than just greed, these individuals in the Legislative Council back a heterodox theory of economics that balances State interests with corporate prerogatives.[[/note]]

->'''Party:''' Rippoukai - Zaikaiha[[note]]The ascendancy of Guangdong's corporations in economic life came with a corresponding need for their interests to be represented in politics. The members of the Legislative Council - supposedly apolitical and independent - proved to be easily swayed by promises of money, status, and power offered by the corporates, in exchange for their loyalty. These individuals - now more loyal to their corporate benefactor than their Chief Executive - form the backbone of Corporate political influence in Guangdong.[[/note]]

->'''Party:''' Rippoukai - Zaikaiha[[note]]The ascendancy of Guangdong's corporations in economic life came with a corresponding need for their interests to be represented in politics. The members of the Legislative Council - supposedly apolitical and independent - proved to be easily swayed by promises of money, status, and power offered by the corporates, in exchange for their loyalty. These individuals - now more loyal to their corporate benefactor than their Chief Executive - form the backbone of Corporate political influence in Guangdong.[[/note]], Rippoukai - Chuou Iinkai[[note]]The Central Committee is Ibuka Masaru's latest experiment, and arguably his finest yet. Composed of only the most exceptional representatives in the Legislative Council, these individuals have proven themselves diligent, impervious, and unwaveringly loyal to Guangdong and Guangdong alone. They, and nobody else, are the ones to be entrusted with Guangdong's future - for what can you expect from people you don't know exactly what they're up to?\n\nCorporate sycophants can decry it all they want as some "regression" to the days of Suzuki and his overbearing control over Guangdong's political life, and we say all the better. This is what they deserve.[[/note]]

->'''Party:''' Rippoukai - Manshuha[[note]]The Empire of Manchuria has developed its own brand of capitalism, alien to its comparators in Tokyo and Guangdong. One corporation dominates economic life, an inescapable colossus: the Manchurian Industrial Development Company (Mangyō, MIDC) and its many subsidiaries. Decades of forced industrialization under Japanese supremacism have made Mangyō - and its electronics subsidiary, Nissan's Hitachi - notorious for its callous disregard for life and morality, even as it advances the states' ends with a ruthless efficiency. And some in Hsinking wonder: instead of serving the state in Manchuria, could they instead export their Manchurian System to Guangdong?[[/note]]