1 | %% [Creation started on 18:27 29/12/2016 and ended 23:57 29/12/2016] |
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 |
4 | |
5 | '''八紘一宇 - Hakkō Ichiu''' is a [[AlternateHistory timeline]] written by Asami (formerly Sakura_F) on WebSite/AlternateHistoryDotCom. |
6 | |
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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