Japan

Japan
Game(s)	Homefront
Capital	Tokyo
Continent	Asia

Japan was an island nation in East Asia. The country was formerly a member of the Axis Powers of World War II before being defeated by the United States and remade as a thriving democracy and major economic power. The nation has maintained a unitary constitutional monarchy with an emperor and an elected parliament. In 2018, Japan was invaded and conquered by the Greater Korean Republic.

Homefront timeline

Beginning in 2014, Japan embraced a surge of nationalism and anti-Korean sentiment in response to the rise of the Greater Korean Republic. Due to the global economic crisis, Japanese-American relations deteriorated in which the Japanese and the U.S. governments accused each other of unacceptable imposition of duties on imports in order to protect respective domestic industries. The inability to find common ground sharing the burden of their military alliance in an apparent new era of East Asian peace permanently ended in May 2014 in which the U.S. military withdrew their presence from Japan.

In July 2017, Japanese anti-Korean sentiment escalated to bloody race riots when alleged Korean agents attempted to assassinate the Japanese royal family. Although Japan's intelligence agency Naicho indicated that the assassins were reactionary nationals, the general public blamed the so-called "North" Korean secret agents for the assassination attempt, in which angry Japanese nationalists attacked Korean residents and Korean-owned businesses.

Though the Japanese government condemned the attacks and tried to maintain order, the Korean government accused the Japanese government of allowing their soldiers and policemen to participate in systematic attacks against ethnic Koreans after providing photographic evidence to the United Nations. The Koreans demanded international condemnation against Japan. Such demands availed Korea little, despite unofficial estimates of as many as ten thousand Koreans being slaughtered at the hands of Japanese nationalists that forced many Korean residents to flee from the country.

Korean-Japanese War

Japan surrenders to the GKR.

On April 1, 2018, GKR President Kim Jong-un, enraged at the world's idleness as Koreans were slain in Japan simply due to their heritage, publicly declared a "heavenly mandate" to protect Koreans worldwide. The GKR declared war on Japan, citing lack of action from the United Nations and the international community over the last seven months even as the Korean death toll mounted. 

Shortly after Korea's declaration of war, KPA Special Forces were inserted into Japan and captured the nation's nuclear power plants located near major metropolitan areas. In a show of force, the KPA destroyed the Chugoku nuclear power plant, killing thousands of lives in the fallout and laying a death sentence on countless others. Many cities and towns in southern Japan were evacuated to avoid the radiation. After Kim Jong-un publicly delivered a veiled threat to the Japanese government in which the KPA threatened to destroy the twenty-six nuclear power plants, and with Korean forces advancing on Tokyo, the Japanese Diet passed an emergency measure, acceding to all of Kim Jong-un's demands. Within less than a week, Japan surrendered to the Greater Korean Republic.

Korean Occupation

In a reversal of history, Japan fell under Korean occupation in which the Korean government claimed to ensure the elimination of Japan's genocide against Koreans. The occupation was denounced as a "war crime" and "an act of terror" by western nations such as the United States, which called for sanctions against the GKR. The United Nations passed a non-binding resolution condemning the GKR for the destruction of the Chugoku nuclear power plant.

Throughout 2019, the KPA took over Japan's Aerospace Exploration Agency and captured the latest M-V rocket, which was based on the American-made Peacekeeper ICBM, to develop nuclear missiles. The Koreans established prison camps in Japan similar to those still in place in North Korea. Yi Dae-Hyun oversaw public executions in Japan and subsequently earned his code name, "Salmusa." As of 2022, a Japanese resistance movement had been waged against the Korean occupation.

In 2024, the GKR launched the next generation of navigational satellites from the Kagoshima Space Center in the Kagoshima Prefecture. In reality, the launch was the prelude for Korea's invasion of America as one of the GPS satellites carried a high-altitude nuclear device to disable the American power grid. Operation Cocktail was conducted on Japan's Marcus Island and utilized in Operation Water Snake.