Line #32 Literature/HakkoIchiu


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2	->''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.''
3	-->--'''New York Times''', 1912, after the funeral of the Meiji Emperor
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5	'''八紘一宇 - Hakkō Ichiu''' is a [[AlternateHistory timeline]] written by Asami (formerly Sakura_F) on WebSite/AlternateHistoryDotCom.
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7	The author described, in this TL, how would evolve an UsefulNotes/ImperialJapan after Constitutionalists and Liberals, united in the ''Sakurakai '', managed to get in power in the 1910s against the Nationalist Imperial Alliance.
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9	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]].
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11	! This work contains the following tropes:
12	* AllohistoricalAllusion:
13	** [[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.]]
14	*** [[spoiler:Zhu De later forms the Chinese Soviet Republic after defeating the Kuomintang and reactionaries.]]
15	** [[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 a direct allusion to Trotsky's death IOTL.]]
16	** [[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.]]
17	** [[spoiler:Tsarevich Alexander arrives in Tsargrad by train, sparking a general strike in a similar manner to Lenin's 1917 train ride IOTL.]]
18	* ANaziByAnyOtherName:
19	** The Latin Popular Union.
20	** The Russian Empire under Andrei Shkuro.
21	* BalkanizeMe:
22	** [[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]] numerous times over; starting with many warlord states, many nascent republics, two rival monarchies, and a hell of a lot of chaos and confusion.
23	*** [[spoiler:China later mostly reunifies under the Chinese Soviet Republic, with Turkestan, Inner Mongolia, Manchuria and Hainan Island passing into other people's hands.]]
24	** ImperialRussia was divided between a Reformed Empire standing with Empress 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]]''.
25	*** Tatiana's Russia 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; ultimately, Russia deals with this again [[spoiler:after staring World War II.]]
26	*** 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:He dies and the regime crumbles.]]
27	** The Ottoman Empire lost Armenia, Assyria, Iraq and Cilicia.
28	*** The Free State of Thrace, under British suzerainty, has been established, populated with Greeks and Turks, with encouraged British settlement.
29	** Austria-Hungary is divided into [[spoiler:the Austrian Soviet Republic, Republic of Slovenia, Republic of Croatia, Republic of Bosnia, the Kingdom of Hungary, and Czechoslovakia]].
30	*** [[spoiler: Germany later annexes Austria and Czechoslovakia.]]
31	* BodyguardBetrayal: [[spoiler: How Khan Sternberg died]].
32	* 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.
33	* CommieNazis: The Communist government that takes over France after UsefulNotes/WorldWarI is very nationalistic and anti-Semitic.
34	* TheCoup:
35	** Hardliners in the [[UsefulNotes/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.
36	** In the United States, [[spoiler:the Red March during the Red Summer aimed to take over [[DayOfTheJackboot and install Communism]]]].
37	** During the February 26th Incident, [[spoiler:Prince Chichibu and others led a coup to unseat the emperor and replace him with someone more radical]].
38	*** [[spoiler: This leads to his execution, a rare action taken against a member of the imperial dynasty.]]
39	* DirtyCommunists: They are more successful than OTL.
40	** They took over Austria, China, Bavaria (only briefly) and France.
41	** In Japan, they attempt to murder Hirohito, and fail.
42	** The ''[[ItMakesSenseInContext Chinese Stalinists]]'' are the dominant 'moderate' faction in the CSR.
43	** During the Red Summer, [[spoiler:they manage to take over Spain and Portugal]].
44	* DroppedABridgeOnHim:
45	** Emperor Taishou is wounded during the October 6th Incident and dies from resulting injuries four years after.
46	** Lenin has been assassinated by anti-communist militants in Zurich.
47	** Sun Yat-sen has been murdered by anti-KMT terrorists.
48	** Michael Collins is assassinated three years earlier, in 1919.
49	** Khan Sternberg [[spoiler:is murdered on 1933 by [[BodyguardBetrayal his own bodyguards in cahoots with Wrangel]] after Chinese communists bomb his train]].
50	** Albert, Duke of York (OTL George VI) has been murdered by People's Liberation Army of Quebec.
51	** Most of the people who lead the Japanese Empire into it's war against the United States get killed by the Army and government.
52	** Averted with [[spoiler: Horst Wessel]], who becomes Chancellor of Germany.
53	* ElectiveMonarchy: As OTL, Yuan Shikai is elected Emperor of China but unlike OTL he [[spoiler:and his son]] ''keep'' the crown, but only barely, as the core provinces of China erupt into revolt.
54	** The Chinese monarchy is no more as of the 1930s.
55	* EmergencyAuthority: After the October 6th Incident, Minobe and the Diet pass the National Security Act to fight against [[BlackShirt militarist hardliners]] and [[DirtyCommunist left-wing radicals]].
56	** Hirota Koki basically gets this after the 2/26 coup attempt.
57	** Similarly, Chiune Sugihara gets this during WWII.
58	* EndOfAnEra: Literal Trope, since the Japanese eras are set from the lifetime of the Emperor: the story starts by the burial of Emperor Meiji, marking the end of the Meiji era.
59	* EvilColonialist:
60	** {{Averted\|Trope}} with Prime Ministers Inoue and Minobe, who liberalizes policies relative to Korea to negate the need to later use force.
61	** Played straight with the hardliners, who protest when more liberties are given to the natives of the colonies, against feelings of Japanese exceptionalism.
62	** UsefulNotes/BenitoMussolini invades Ethiopia to drum up nationalism in Italy, and used agents to spread rumors of smuggling of weapons to Communists in Southern Africa.
63	* GoingNative:
64	** 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, and subsequently [[spoiler: leading the Liberation of Warsaw from Russia in 1945.]]
65	** [[spoiler: Anna Roosevelt, daughter of FDR]] becomes Empress of Japan, [[spoiler: and Japan eventually begins to see immigration from white nations, which leads to a large white-Japanese population by the 21st century.]]
66	* Main/TheGreatDepression: Strikes as OTL most of the main economies; Japan has stored money and stimulated the economy, among them the weapons and textile sectors, although they had to reduce their stimulus.
67	** Fucks over most of everyone else, though.
68	* HeirClubForMen: Prince Yasuhito proclaimed the Succession Act of 1936 null and void and consequently denied Emperor Hirohito's daughters any right to rule.
69	** He later revolts and loses, and gets divorced from his brains.
70	* PeoplesRepublicOfTyranny: {{Averted\|Trope}} with the Democratic Republic of Azerbaijan, the first democratic Muslim state.
71	** {{Averted\|Trope}} the Chinese Soviet Republic isn't very authoritarian either.
72	** Played straight with France, which is a militant Sorelian state.
73	** Russian Empire under Shkuro is a hyper-religious fascist state.
74	* 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 aren't.
75	** The Hebei-Chahar Republic ends up being the main place where Jews end up immigrating to.
76	* ThePurge: The Week of Discipline [[spoiler:is the execution of 750 ultranationalist officers after they spread rumors against Koreans and liberals in the aftermath of the 1923 Great Kanto Earthquake]].
77	** What the Emperor orders against all echelons of Japanese society harboring disloyalty after 1936's attempt.
78	* RedScare:
79	** The ''Sakurakai'' banned the Social Democratic Party in an attempt to satiate some of the less insane hardliners. They later are unbanned in the 1930s.
80	** 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 non-consecutive term over an isolationist regime.
81	** The 1923 Tokyo Treaty, originally a naval limitation agreement, became an anti-Communist, and later, anti-Militarist concord.
82	* TheRemnant:
83	** 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 by Tatiana and Stalin.
84	** Wilhelm II turned the United Baltic Duchy, renamed "Kingdom of Livonia," into this. After his death, his kingdom collapses.
85	** 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.
86	*** [[spoiler: It later breaks up into further pieces, after disagreements on who to succeed Foch.]]
87	** Similarly, [[spoiler:Spain and Portugal anti-Communist governments retreats to their colonies after the Red Summer]].
88	** Otto von Hapsburg is limited to rule over Hungary after the collapse of Austria-Hungary.
89	** [[spoiler: Bolshevik remnants rise up again after Russia starts losing WWII.]]
90	* TheRevolutionWillNotBeCivilized:
91	** After the Communists took over Vienna, Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf and several other officials are [[ShotAtDawn shot]].
92	** The "French Commune" scapegoats Jews and Germans for the war, confiscating their estates.
93	** The 1933 Red Summer witnesses several atrocities by Communists in Germany, Ireland, the United States, Japan, China and Mongolia, such as murders, assaults and arson.
94	* RichardNixonTheUsedCarSalesman:
95	** Mustafa Kemal Ataturk died as an anonymous revolutionary fighting against Allies and their Treaty of Sèvres.
96	** Mao Zedong is leading a center-''right'' faction in the KMT, albeit while holding Socialist sympathies.
97	** Without Lenin, Stalin is the left-wing of the Tatiana Imperial government, and is far less interested in communism than OTL.
98	*** [[spoiler:He became the Russian Prime Minister, though. Died of a stroke far earlier than IOTL.]]
99	** 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. He doesn't succeed]].
100	** [[UsefulNotes/TheRulersOfNorthKorea Kim Song-ju]] designs tanks for Mitsubishi and goes on to be a businessman.
101	** UsefulNote/CharlesDeGaulle [[spoiler:led an anti-Québéquois-secessionist regiment during the Red Summer, but later took charge of the French Algeria remnant]].
102	** Adolf Hitler [[spoiler: is working with Stepan Bandera, Konrad Zuse and Otto Frank on a computer project, and testifies in front of the Reichstag on KPD atrocities against Jews]].
103	* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: [[spoiler:The Anglo-Japanese Alliance left UsefulNotes/WorldWarI after an isolationist UsefulNotes/UnitedStates severed loans to Britain and the Entente]].
104	* SerialKiller: Beria, as OTL.
105	* VestigialEmpire:
106	** Wilhelm II's rule is limited to the Kingdom of Livonia after the Revolution.
107	*** [[spoiler: Russia later dismantles it.]]
108	** The Ottoman Empire after the Treaty of Sèvres.
109	*** Later replaced by a far-right republic.
110	** Yuan Shikai's China, after losing all of the core parts of China, being pushed into the steppe [[spoiler:then into oblivion after being crushed by the Khan Sternberg's troops]].
111	* VigilanteExecution: What [[spoiler:Japanese ultranationalists]] claim to do after [[spoiler:lynching Korean nationals as perceived retribution for purported acts of rape, murder and looting done after the 1923 Great Kanto Earthquake, eventually extending to liberals]].
112	* WeAreStrugglingTogether:
113	** Sun Yat-Sen berates the Kuomintang for its divisions between members and factions, before his assassination in 1919.
114	** Irish rebels are divided in IRA members and Communists, and both fought themselves into oblivion, with Britain capitalizing on them and defeating them.

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