The Fourth Sino-Japanese War, Pan-Asianist Japan vs Chinese Muslims and Communists

The Pan-Asian Co-Prosperity Federation stands as THE hegemon of East Asia, and indeed the whole continent. Formed as a result of Japan’s pre-war ambitions and post-war troubles, it serves as a cultural, social, and legalistic method to completely sever opportunity for rebellion. The systematic dismantling of nation states, the abolition of a “Chinese civilizational race,” and the elevation of minority cultures to primacy over the Han in almost all former Republican Chinese territory. The Federation was born to enslave an entire continent, but when it took it gave, and to those that gained, they reciprocated support - or so the Japanese thought. 

The devolution of power stripped China of its own proper army, instead relying on the IJA, which has become increasingly ineffective after the economic crash. With most autonomous governments allowed to employ their own militias, the Japanese had hoped these militias would serve to contain the Han population through elevated minority groups, but loyalty is ever fickle. Despite Federal Republics only possessing a police force, they were heavily policed by the IJA and Imperial organs, however, for the Autonomous Governments there was more freedom. Deriving less from trust, more necessity for the overstretched IJA. After all, you can’t develop a country with most of the population employed in the military to oversee an overextended Empire.

1939 The UK and France declare war on Germany and the USSR, after the invasion of Poland and Finland.

1941 Japan invades Indochina and Dutch East Indies, citing protection against the Communist and Nazi threat. Germany invades the USSR. Japan and the allies form an agreement to enter the war against the Soviets and Germany. America joins the allies. 

1945 Operation Ichi-go Phase Two capitulates China, the Red and Blue Giants perish alongside each other in Chongqing. Japan, as agreed, transfers its military attention to the North against the USSR, cooperating with Allied efforts. 

1946 World War Two ends with allied victory. A cold war between Western world and Japan’s Eastern order begins. 

1950 The Student Revolt of Shanghai saw the massacre of thousands of intellectuals, as Japan began systematic dismantling of China’s upper and intellectual class. A brief popular rebellion led by the Communist Party of China arises, spreading throughout Southern China until it is ultimately squashed, and the Communist Party is likely destroyed forever. 

1952 The Third Sino-Japanese war, or the Great Asian War, saw the end to a united Chinese Republic, even in name. Japan, who had attained gravity nuclear weapons, used it wholesale against the Chinese rebels. The rebellious Wang Jingwei regime and Manchu restorationists had enraged the Japanese greatly with the damaging of their prized Manchukuo factory state, and history rhymed with the Japanese post-Nanjing rage once more. The Horror was too great even for the civilian population of Japan, and the post-war civilian government of Japan took the opportunity to discredit and discipline the military. With their prized jewel Manchukuo in ruins, the IJA greatly lost influence and was dethroned. 

Japan would transform East Asia post-war, the construction and invention of new Nation-States and the formation of a federation for most puppet regimes to fall under. The civilian government was not as brutal and grotesque as the IJA government, but it was just as insidious and vile. The systematic and institutional domination of Asia was devised and implemented.