Jonathan Moore, Press Corps 20
FALL OF EDO, Historical Crisis – Yesterday, members of the Imperial Court and the Tokugawa Shogunate met for a peace summit, hoping to find a solution to the taxation crisis in Japan. However, the summit took an unfortunate turn and led to the attempted murders and kidnappings of the attending Shogunate members.
After news of the events of “Bloody Summit” spread to the rest of the Shogunate and Court members, foreign powers involved in the conflict called another meeting to settle their disputes among themselves rather than start an international war.
Despite the members’ great efforts, the summit resulted in a split of the two bodies into various factions, one of which was the New Tokugawa Shogunate.
Heading the party, Matsudaira Sadaaki gave insight into the New Shogunate’s goals in an interview with NAIMUN Daily.
“We’re seceding from the rest of Japan and setting up our own government to ensure that the people in our provinces are supported,” stated Sadaaki. “We will have one main leader who will be elected democratically by the people.”
The New Shogunate faction of the Japanese Civil War stated in their collaborative block that they wish to form their own independent nation entitled “Ultraman State”, consuming the Southern regions of Japan.
Another faction involved in this war, the Jade Order of the Bonsai, sent their leader Kodama Gentarō to offer their stance on the war.
“Our current objective for the war is to consolidate all of our military assets to unify Japan by force,” stated Gentarō. “It is of the utmost importance that we end the war swiftly to avoid as much collateral damage as possible.”
The final faction involved, the Feminist Party, held a communal press conference to voice their goals for their newly formed faction.
“We decided to break apart and focus on abolishing the typical social hierarchy that was built in Japan,” stated Princess Sumiko, a member of the party. “We really wanted to get rid of all the things that were making Japan miserable.”
After establishing their plans, the Feminist Party and the New Shogunate formed an alliance to unite against the War Hawks. At the signing of the Treaty, a representative for the Feminist Party detailed the intricacies of the union.
“We are not combining our separate nations. We are simply uniting to fight against the Jade Order,” said Sumiko. “We also wish to make immigration and trade between our nations easy to achieve some sort of unity between the factions of Japan.”
Due to poor military strategy on all sides, the Japanese Civil War resulted in the disunion of the Japanese nation. In the northern regions, the Democratic Feminist Party elected their first president, Aruhuko Okise, to lead their democratic, anti-social division republic. In the middle region, the Jade Order of the Bonsai established their specialization-based government and has yet to elect a Jade Shogun yet is content with having its own section of the nation. In the southern region of Japan, the Ultraman State also has yet to elect an Ultraman Shogun and is still working with the Democratic Feminist Party to improve immigration and trade between their newly formed states.