Japanese Victory
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[edit] The Pacific War
1942, June 4th: The Japanese fleet wins a stunning victory over the American fleet at the Battle of Midway. Virtually the entire American carrier force is destroyed along most of their supporting vessels. Midway is then occupied.
1942, June 9th-17th: The American fleet regroups in the Coral Sea but is ambushed and destroyed by the Japanese in the Second Battle of the Coral Sea. With almost all their carriers sunk in the Battle of Midway, the American fleet was ripped to shreds by repeated enemy air attacks. The Santa Cruz Islands and Guadalcanal are occupied.
1942, June 20th-23rd: Japanese troops invade New Zealand on the North Island. They drive inland for the first day of the invasion but on the second they run into a New Zealand defensive line centered on Gisborme. Several major attacks on it are repulsed.
1942, June 26: A convoy of American transports loaded with troops and supplies for New Zealand is ambushed. Japanese dive bombers and torpedo bombers sink nine transports and two escorting destroyers. That night, a pair of Japanese torpedo boats sink another three transports. The rest of the convoy turns back.
1942, June 28rd: The Japanese army breaks through the Gisborme Line and scatters the New Zealand army. Most of it surrenders or is destroyed.
1942, June 30th: The USS Saratoga sinks after being hit with torpedoes launched from Japanese submarine.
1942, July 1st: Surviving New Zealand troops retreat to Wellington. The Japanese army besieges them there.
1942, July 11th: Wellington is captured by the Japanese.
1942, July 12th: The Japanese army crosses the Cook Straits and lands on New Zealand's South Island. They quickly seize Blenheim.
1942, July 15th: The Imperial Japanese Army advances inland from Blenheim but is halted by guerrilla and partisan activates.
1942, July 23rd-30th: Japanese airborne troops capture Queenstown, which had been functioning as the Guerrillas support base. With the Guerrillas mostly neutralized, Japanese troops occupy most of the remainder of South Island.
1942, August 3th-16th: Japanese bombers attack San Fransisco and a number of other west coast citys. Pearl Harbor is attacked again as well. Australia is repeatedly bombed. General Douglas MacArthur is killed in one such attack. President Roosevelt decides that with supply lines to Australia gone, Hawaii threatened with invasion, and US morale dropping fast, the only choice left was to make peace. Diplomats are dispatched to the Empire of Japan to negotiate a treaty.
1942, November 1st: Treaty of Honolulu is signed by Admiral Yamamoto and Secretary of State Cordell Hull. The Treaty guarantees Japanese hegemony over most occupied territory with the exceptions of New Zealand, Attu and Kiska, the Santa Cruz Islands, and Midway. Attu, Kiska and Midway will be returned to the United State but Midway must be demilitarized for 10 years. It also cedes them New Guinea and all of China up to the borders of Tibet and Sinkiang. In return Japan will pay USA large reparations and will leave the axis alliance. Japan will also swear to recognize the sovereignty of Tibet, Sinkiang, Australia, and New Zealand, allow travel through Japanese controlled waters, and pay for the repairing and rebuilding of Pearl Harbor.
1942, November 17th: Japanese troops concentrated in Burma cross the Indian border and crush a major British force. They move on Dnaka.
1942, November 28th: The Japanese army occupies Dhaka. Another Japanese force takes Chittagong. The British army prepares to launch a counterattack.
1942, November 30th: Japanese carrier planes bomb Visakhapatnam and Bhubaneswar. A Japanese attack on Guwahati is driven off by British forces.
1942, December 3rd: A British counterattack is launched, which drives back the Japanese Army but fails to retake Dhaka.
1942, December 5th-9th: The Japanese army launches its own counterattack. The overextended and under-supplied British army is routed and forced to retreat. The Japanese army overruns all of East Bengal along with much of the surrounding territory and begins shelling and bombing Calcutta.
1942, December 11th: England asks for a cease fire and opens negotiations with Japan.
1942, January 2nd: The Treaty of Bombay is signed by England and Japan. England is forced to cede all territory up to and including East Bengal to Japan. In return, Japan agrees to demilitarize the border for 10 years and to keep its navy out of the Indian Ocean for 5 years.
1942, February 12th: Operation Shin Nippon begins. Millions of Japanese colonists are dispatched to China, the Dutch East Indies, Siam, New Guinea, Burma,and other regions of the Empire. Secret massacres of native people began to clear the way for the colonists.
1943, June 9th: At the urging of many top military commanders, Japan begins a program to modernize the Imperial Army, which had fallen behind most of the world.
1945, January 3rd: Germany surrenders to Allies. Hitler commits suicide. The Soviet Union begins shifting troops east. The Soviet Unions plans call for a massive attack that will force the Japanese to return the territory that they took from Russia after the Russo-Japanese war. They also plan to demand that they retain control over sections of Manchuria.
[edit] The Soviet-Japanese War
1945, April 21st: Soviet-Japanese war begins. The Soviet Union declares war on Japan and launches an invasion. Soviet troops pour into Manchuria and into Japanese Sakhalin. Soviet amphibious landings take place in the Kuril Islands and on the Japanese home Island of Hokkaido.
1945, April 22nd: Soviet Bombers attack Tokyo and Beijing. The Soviet Unions first demand of surrender is refused by Japan. America is horrified by the prospect of the Soviet Union gaining more power in the east and demands that they withdraw their troops from Japan.
1945, April 24th: Soviet troops continue to drive into Manchuria while meeting heavy resistance. The Soviet invasion of Hokkaido bogs down around the city of Asahikawa.
1945, April 25th: Japanese carrier aircraft find the Soviet Pacific Ocean Fleet and attack. Four destroyers, one cruiser, six patrol boats, and two minesweepers are sunk. Soviet Naval Aviation responds by spending out hundreds of planes to find the Japanese fleet. The attack is partially successful with one Japanese escort carrier being sunk along with two destroyers and a tanker. America renews their demand that the Soviets withdraw. They also move troops up to the Soviet border and place the fleet on high alert.
1945, April 26th: Soviet troops in Manchuria enter northern Korea. The Kuril Islands are cleared of final Japanese resistance. A dozen Japanese destroyers launch a surprise night attack on the Soviet supply ships and troop transports supporting the invasion of Hokkaido. A dozen support ships are sunk along with an escorting patrol boat. Three Japanese destroyers are sunk and two damaged. The Soviet Union once again demands the Japanese Surrender.
1945, April 29th-May 12th: The Japanese 7th army, based in eastern China launches a massive attack on the Soviets 1st Far Eastern Front. Over the next fourteen days the Japanese army cut through the center of Soviet occupied Manchuria, cutting off and trapping the Soviet vanguard and much of the rest of their army in northern Korea. Japanese bombers raid Khabarovsk and Vladivostok. Soviet troops fighting on Sakhalin reach the southern tip and began mopping up surviving Japanese. Soviet torpedo boats sink a Japanese cruiser.
1945, May 13th: The 7th army entrenches in their newly won territory, keeping the Soviet vanguard trapped. The Soviets launch a number of counterattacks but are repulsed. The Japanese 8th army is redeployed from Siam to relieve the 7th army. A Japanese bombing raid on Vladivostok is driven off by Soviet fighters. American warships are sent into the Black Sea, the Baltic Sea, and the Barents Sea as warnings.
1945, May 14th: The Japanese battleship Kirishima and its escorting destroyers are attacked by Soviet Bombers while on patrol in the North Pacific Ocean. The Kirishima survives but two of her destroyers are sunk.
1945, May 15th: The Imperial Japanese Fleet attacks the Soviet Pacific Ocean Fleet in the Sea of Okhotsk. Both sides take heavy losses but the Japanese fleet is victorious. The crippled remains of the Soviet fleet escaped to Vladivostok.
1945, May 16th: The 8th army arrives in Manchuria and relieve the battered 7th army. A combination of 8th army and 7th army troops cross the border into Russia and besieges Vladivostok.
1945, May 17th-18th: Soviet bombers attack Nanjing and Sapporo. Heavy fighting continues in Manchuria where a Soviet breakout attempt from northern Korea has reached Jilin. Japanese battleships have begun bombarding soviet positions in the Kuril Islands. A Japaneses counterattack against the Soviets on Hokkaido fails miserably and results in massive Japanese casualties.
1945, May 19th: The Soviets breakout attempt takes Jilin but can not pierce the Japanese defenses beyond the city. Soviet troops in the Kuril Islands began to surrender. America announces that unless the Soviet Union withdraws from the Japanese Empire by July 10th, America will declare war.
1945, May 20th: Vladivostok surrenders to Japanese forces after four days of heavy shelling. Japanese bombers begin striking at Soviet army with varying effectiveness.
1945, May 21st: The Soviet troops trapped in northern Korea retreat from Jilin and fall back to Fushun. Japanese battleships bombard Soviet positions on Sakhalin.
1945, June 2nd: Japanese troops land in the Soviet rear on Hokkaido and seize the city of Asahikawa.
1945, June 4th-7th: A Japanese airborne assault takes Khabarovsk, cutting off the Soviet army's retreat. The Japanese army captures Pyongyang with heavy naval support. Soviet bombers attack Tokyo.
1945, June 8th: The Japanese Army attacks the Soviet army in northern Korea from the font while Japanese troops in Pyongyang attack their rear.
1945, June 10th: The Soviet army in northern Korea surenders after two days of heavy fighting. The Japanese troops that defeated them are redeployed to face the Soviet army still occupying most of Manchuria.
1945, June 13th: The Soviet Union requests a cease fire, which is granted. Negotiations began.
1945, June 20th: The Tokyo Accords are signed by the Soviet Union and the Empire of Japan. The Accords give all territory occupied by the Soviet Union will be returned to Japan. In addition, the USSR will cede the northern half of Sakhalin and the southern half of the Kamchatka Peninsula. However the Sea of Okhotsk will remain Soviet territorial waters.
[edit] The Post War Years
1946, January 8th: Yamamoto becomes Prime Minister of Japan. Announces that he will substantially increase industry in the Empire.
1946, March 11th: First regular ferry service is set up between Kitakyushu (in the Japanese home islands) and Fuzan (in Korea).
1946, July 16th: Japanese shipyards began work on largest ocean liner in the world.
1946, December 20th: The Japanese government reorganizes the territory and puppet states that currently makes up the overseas Empire into a system of provinces.
1947, November 3rd: Historic trade agreement with Australia is forged. First since the Pacific War.
1947, December 10th: The government of Japan announces the National Transportation and Communication Act. Elements of this act include: the construction of the China-Tibet railway, the building of the New Guinea Highway, and the digging of the Malaysian Canal through the Isthmus of Kra.
1947, December 31st: A Communist rebellion breaks out in Nepal. America begins sending supplies and weaponry to the Nepalese government, while the USSR supplies and arms the rebels. Japan declares itself neutral.
1948, February 12th: Yammamoto reports that Industrialization plans have been extremely successful, especially in Burma, Indochina, and the Philippines.
1948, March 16th: Work is started on the Malaysian Canal.
1948, May 20th: Construction on the China-Tibet Railway begins.
1948, August 9th: American troops are sent to assist the government of Nepal against the Communist rebels.
1949, December 15th: Largest Ocean Liner in world, Kyoto is completed. Sold to Trans-Pacific Cruses, a large Japanese corporation.
1949, December 29th: Kyoto begins her maiden voyage.
1949, December 30th: The capital of Nepal comes under heavy rebel attack. American and Nepalese troops are forced on to the defensive.
1950, March 2nd: Mutual defense pact signed with Tibet. A number of agreements designed to further encourage trade between the two countries are also signed.
1950, April 7th: Eastern Burma is hit by terrible flooding. Hundreds die and thousands become refugees.
1950, April 8th: The Japanese Air Force begins air dropping supplies to flooded regions. Disaster relief workers are dispatched to began rescue operations and set up emergency housing.
1950, April 10th: The Japanese government orders mandatory evacuation of everyone in the flooded areas. Thousands of trucks are sent to began the evacuation.
1950, May 5th: Diplomatic relations are resumed with the Soviet Union.
1950, June 18th: American troops manage to finally clear the remaining rebels out of Lucknow (the capital out Nepal). However rebellion continues to dominate much of the countryside.
1950, June 30th: A amendment to the constitution that would give citizenship to non Japanese residents of the Empire is narrowly defeated in the Diet.
1950, July 9th: After months of their pleas for Indian independence falling on deaf ears, the Indian Revolutionary Front (IRF) declares war on England and commences a massive rebellion throughout India.
1950, July 20th: The civilians evacuated from Burma during the flood are permitted to return. Work begins on the vast amount of rebuilding that has to be done.
1951, January 9th: Emperor Hirohito dies of a heart attack. Prince Masahito ascends to the Chrysanthemum Throne.
1951, February 11th: The Imperial Diet approves a bill that allows representation in the Diet of non-Japanese provinces. However the only voting population will be the ethnic Japanese who have moved there.
1951, April 28th: Mohandas Gandhi is executed as a traitor by the IRF for his outspoken pleas for peace.
[edit] The Second Chinese Civil War
1952, January 3rd: Chinese communists protest Japanese rule in Xian. When one large crowd marches on the Governors office, Japanese Troops opened fire and killed 22 protesters. Another 57 were wounded.
1952, January 4th: Rioting erupts in citys across China. Several Japanese officials are killed. Martial law is declared and troops are sent to crush the rioters.
1952, January 6th: The communist underground, the Peoples Liberation Army Resistance (PLAR) declares open war on Japan.
1952, January 7th: The Soviet Union secretly begins to supply PLAR with weaponry.
1952, January 9th: Communist rebels and rioters continue to fight in Shanghai, Nanjing, and Xian. A barge in the Yellow River loaded with Japanese troops hits a mine and sinks. 107 soldiers are killed.
1952, January 11th: Fighting breaks out in Manchuria and Hong Kong. Japanese troops began to counterattack in Nanjing.
1952, January 12th-15th: PLAR guerrillas seize complete control of Xian. Japanese gunboats began bombarding rebel controlled sections of Hong Kong. In Nanjing, Japanese soldiers push PLAR troops back into the city center.
1952, January 17th: The Governor of China, Yasuo Aso is assassinated in Bejing by a PLAR sniper.
1952, January 19th: Japanese Marines land in Hong Kong, but face bitter resistance and their progress is bloody and slow.
1952, January 20th: Jilin surrenders to PLAR forces. Mines laid on tracks derail a Japanese troop train north of Batou.
1952, January 24th: Japanese gunboat off Honk Kong is sunk by heavy mortar fire.
1952, January 28th-31st: PLAR troops in Nanjing surrender to the Japanese Army. Japanese troops are driven out of Shanghai. Fighting breaks out in Hangzhou.
1952, February 2nd: The Japanese 7th Army is destroyed in a series of battles with PLAR troops along the coast of the Yellow Sea.
1952, February 7th: Japanese troops seize the city of Jilin from PlAR forces.
1952, February 9th-18th: Japanese troops holding Nanjing retreat from the city to avoid being surrounded. The Japanese garrison in Hangzhou is overrun and destroyed. A PLAR army crosses the Yellow river and marches on Beijing, recruiting and equipping peasants along the way.
1952, February 19th: The PLAR army captures Shijiazhuang without a fight. Continue their march on Beijing.
1952, February 21st: The PLAR army reaches Beijing and lays siege to it. The Japanese 1st and 2nd army's are deployed to Tianjin.
1952, February 23rd: The Japanese 1st and 2nd army's attempt to envelop the PLAR army outside of Beijing. However Chinese scouts notice the maneuver and the PLAR army pulls back to Shijiazhuang.
1952, February 25th: The Japanese 10th army launches a series of attacks against the Peoples Republic of China's southern border. A major breakthrough is achieved at Nanning.
1952, February 26-March 3rd: The 10th army begins to drive along the coast in a attempt to link up with Japanese forces in Hong Kong. The Japanese Air Force bombs Xian and Wuhan. The 1st and 2nd army's besiege Shijiazhuang.
1952, March 5th: The 10th army is defeated at Guangzhou and is forced to retreat to Zhanjiang.
1952, March 7th: The PLAR army retreats from Shijiazhuang and shelters in Taiyuan. The 1st and 2nd army's pursue them.
1952, March 10th: PLAR saboteurs infiltrate a Japanese air base in Qiqilhar and ignite a large number of explosives. Nine bombers, six fighters and a supply transports are destroyed in the explosion along with the main hanger, most of the bases fuel supply, and part of the barracks. Nineteen people are killed. However all but two of the eleven saboteurs are killed or captured.
1952, March 12: Japanese troops secure complete control over Hong Kong.
1952, March 15th: The Japanese tanker Hiei Soryu hits a mine and sinks in the East China Sea. Only seventeen crew members survive.
1952, March 16th: The Japanese army in Zhanjiang retreats to Haiphong to avoid having their supply lines cut off by the PLAR. They are forced to leave most of their artillery and vehicles behind.
1952, March 19th: Japanese troops launch a seris of raids agenst PLAR forces in Chengdu and Kunming.
1952, March 21st: The PLAR army in Taiyuan is smashed by a heavy Japanese attack. The survivors flee across the Huang river.
1952, March 24th: Another Japanese freighter, the Nagoya sinks after hitting a mine in the East China Sea. The Imperial Japanese Navy begins to investigate how PLAR got mines so far out to sea.
1952, March 26th: The survivors of the PLAR army routed at Taiyun regroup at Xian.
1952, March 29th: The Japanese army attempts to cross the yellow river at Zibo, but is driven back with heavy losses. A long stalemate ensures, with only skirmishes and raids going on.
1952, July 8th: In their first major offensive in nearly four months,a PLAR army invades Vietnam.
1952, July 11th: The PLAR army in Vietnam reaches and begins attacking Haiphong.
1952, July 18th: A Japanese scout plane spots the Chinese freighter Yin Shan laying mines in the East China Sea. The Japanese frigate Kimi Yo is sent to capture it. However when the Kimi Yo arrived, the Chinese freighter opened fire with a battery of captured Japanese artillery pieces. After a short but vicious gun battle the Kimi Yo is sunk. The Yin Shan, though damaged, managed to limp back to port.
1952, July 20th: The Japanese Army launches another attack across the Yellow River after being reinforced by elite troops. During this battle the Japanese Air Force tests the Akihito-17, a prototype helicopter gunship. The helicopter is a great success and the Japanese army captures Jinan and Zibo.
1952, July 21st: The Japanese Army continues its advance and attacks Qingdao. The city falls after six hours of heavy fighting.
1952, July 24th: Haiphong falls to the PLAR army. The remains of the Japanese 10th army retreats to Hanoi.
1952, July 30th: A attack is launched at Zhengzhou. The PLAR army defending it is forced to retreat to Xian and the city falls to the Japanese. General Wu Jintao desperately begins shifting troops northward to deal with the Japanese.
1952, August 3rd: A Japanese thrust out of Hong Kong is driven back by the PLAR.
1952, August 5th: Nanjing comes under heavy Japanese assault. With the help of heavy air cover, Japanese armored columns penetrate deep into the city.
1952, August 10th: PLAR troops begin to encircle Hanoi.
1952, Agust 14th: Nanjing is cleared of PLAR resistance. Though Japanese losses have been horrendous, they now have a toehold on the south side of the Chang River.
1952, Agust 15th: A Japanese attempt to take Wuhan is repulsed.
1952, Agust 19th-30th: A massive Japanese attack is launched into Shanghai, the capital of the Peoples Republic of China. As battleships bombard the docks and bombers level the inner city districts, hundreds of thousands of Japanese troops engage in a fierce battle with the PLAR in the outskirts of the city.
1952, September 4th: The PLAR army is driven into the city center after a series of relentless Japanese attacks. General Wu Jintao flees the city along with the rest of the government.
1952, September 8th: The Japanese army completely surrounds Shanghai. While leaving enough troops to contain whats left of the PLAR army in Shanghai, the rest of the Japanese army moves into position to attack Hangzhou.
1952, September 11th: Hanoi surrenders the PLAR.
1952, September 15th: Japan launches Operation Michiko. Thousands of Japanese paratroopers capture Nanning and the surrounding area. This poses a major threat to the PLAR's rear areas.
1952, September 16th-18th: Japanese troops in Nanning began to spread out in order to cut off the PLAR army in Hanoi from the rest of China.
1952, September 20th: PLAR troops rapidly disengage from fighting south of Hanoi and began to retreat, hoping to get out before they are cut off.
1952, September 25th: PLAR sympathizers in the Manchurian city's of Baicheng and Harbin rise up and seize control of the citys.
1952, September 27th: The Japanese army surrounds Hangzhou and begins to probe its defenses. However any major attacks have to be put on hold due to the troops being sent to Manchuria to deal with the crisis.
1952, September 28rd-October 4th: The Japanese army completes the encirclement of the PLAR army in Vietnam. After making a bloody and useless attack upon Japanese positions the PLAR army is forced to fall back into a nearby forest.
1952, October 6th: Japanese troops begin the reconquest of Baicheng. Unfortunately, progress is slow.
1952, October 11th: Baicheng surrenders and the Japanese army turns its attention to Harbin.
1952, October 12th-16th: Imperial Japanese armored columns drive deep into Harbin, overrunning the city and exterminating the rebels.
1952, October 19th: Hangzhou surrenders after a series of bombing raids that left most of the city alight.
1952, October 22nd: A Japanese supply convoy is ambushed near Nanjing. A dozen trucks are destroyed along with most of its escort.
1952, October 24th: The PLAR army in Vietnam surrenders.
1952, October 27th: The Japanese army launches simultaneous attacks on Xian, Wuhan and Chongqing.
1952, October 28th-November 3rd: Wuhan and Chongqing are captured by the Japanese though Xian repeals the attack . With this masterstroke, PLAR control over eastern and southern China is fragmented. A number of major city's are still under their control but Japanese troops rapidly take back much of the surrounding countryside.
1952, November 5th: Xian is cleared of PLAR resistance. Operations began against a number of PLAR pockets still holding out.
1952, November 9th-23rd: Many of the PLAR holdouts in eastern and southern China are brought back under Japanese control through a combination of starvation tactics and brute force. The major exceptions to this are a force of 2,500 to 3,000 PLAR troops holding out in the hills south of Guiyang and a group of about 500 soldiers in Gejiu.
1952, November 26th: A last ditch effort is launched by the PLAR in a attempt to retake Xian. The offense fails when superior Japanese armor and air support cut off and destroy the army miles away from its objective.
1952, November 28th: A force of 10,000 Japanese soldiers lay siege to the Guiyang holdout.
1952, November 30th: Japanese torpedo bombers spot the Yin Shan and two other make-shift warships of the PLARN (Peoples Liberation Army Resistance, Naval). All three are sunk by the bombers, though an anti-aircraft gun downs one and damages three more.
1952, December 1st: Japenese troops storm and capture Gejiu. The PLAR force is crushed.
1952, December 7th: PLAR soldiers trap and obliterate the vanguard of a Japanese column pushing west. 100 Japanese infantry are killed and five armored cars are destroyed.
1952, December 10th: The Japanese Army attacks Guiyang, but is repulsed, mainly through the use of large numbers of land mines. However the PLAR takes heavy casualties.
1952, December 11th: Fast moving PLAR raiders destroy a supply convoy on its way to the Japanese Army in the west. With the loss of its supplies, it is forced to halt temporarily.
1952, December 15th: Japanese troops launch another assault on Guiyang. This time they manage to drive the PLAR out of their outlying fortifications and into their central fortress.
1952, December 17th: The few remaining PLAR manage to break out of Guiyang and scatter into the countryside.
1952, December 25th: The soldiers combing the countryside for the PLAR survivors are called off that duty after High Command decides that the few remaining survivors who have remained uncaptured aren't worth the effort.
1953 January 9th: The Peoples Republic of China pulls back its borders to include just the province of Qinghai along with northern Gansu. Though no official treatys are signed, fighting begins to die down now. The Peoples Republic of China is concentrating on building a real country inside the territory they have and so content themselves with instigating revolt in Japanese occupied china. The Japanese Empire is worried about another conflict with the Soviet Union, who have threatened war if the present boundary's of the Peoples Republic of China are violated. Japan also has a lot of rebuilding to. Because of this, though neither country officially recognizes each other and though a lot of border skirmishing goes on, the Second Chinese Civil War is effectively over.
[edit] Peace Time
1952, December 29th: England finally recognizes the existence of the National Republic of India (including Pakistan), and its government, the Council of State Guardianship and Peace, lead by Rajendra Singh. An immediate evacuation of English troops and government officials begins.
1953, January 17th: The Japanese Empire begins the long process of rebuilding the cities and infrastructure of china that was damaged during the war.
1953, March 5th: Joseph Stalin dies. His successor is Georgy Malenkov.
1953, April 21st: The Japanese Nuclear Program achieves its first nuclear reaction.
1953, September 3rd: The Japanese Government announces the creation of Japanese Airlines. This state-owned corporation will construct airports in Yokohama, Sapporo, Kitakyushu, Fuzan (Korea), Manila (Philippines), and Bangkok (Siam). Japanese airlines will have exclusive control of these airports for the time being.
1953, December 27th: Prime Minister Yamamoto steps down from office due to his age. He is succeeded by the Minister for Foreign affairs, Hayao Osami.
1954, February 8th: American troops begin pulling out or Nepal due to stalemate on the battlefield, mounting casualties, and fierce opposition to the war at home.
1954, May 20th: As part of their program to indoctrinate native peoples in the Japanese culture, the Institute for Greater Japanese Study is opened in Yangon by the Japanese Government.
1954, August 3rd: After a long series of delays and near cancellations, the Malaysian Canal is completed.
1954, October 31st: The Nepalese Government falls to the communist rebels and the country officially becomes the Peoples Republic of Nepal.
1955, June 29th: Prime Minister Hayo Osami makes a speech in which he commits to maintaining the Empire of Japans maritime power, both commercial and military.
1955, November 18th: The long controversial issue of non-Japanese peoples status in the Empire is finally resolved with the creation of the Resident Act. Under the Act, all non-Japanese people become official Residents of the Empire. They have some rights but lack most of the rights and privileges that Citizens of the Empire (ethnic Japanese people) receive.
1955, December 12th: The Japanese Government announces that they have successfully detonated a nuclear weapon.
1956, April 3rd: Hayo Osami is forced to resign due to allegations of corruption and bribery. He is replaced by Shinzo Yoshida.
1956, July 14th: Japanese airlines begin international service with flights being extended to Honolulu (USA), Ulaanbaatar (Mongolia), and Sydney (Australia).
1956, October 25th: The Board of Reconstruction reports that while their is still much work to be done, eastern china's infrastructure is back to pre-war levels.
1957, March 11th: The Japanese tanker Nara collides with a pleasure yacht in the Coral Sea. Thousands of gallons of oil spill out into the ocean.
1957, March 12th: Japanese and Australian ships rush to begin cleanup. However the environmental and economic effects are already considered to be quite severe.
1957, August 23rd: The Kyoto arrives in Honolulu as the first Japanese cruse ship to visit Hawaii since the Taiyo Maru in 1941.
1958, July 8th: The Indian Army invades Sri Lanka.
1958, November 27th: The Diet officially repeals the Pacific War era eugenics law.
1959, January 19th: Sri Lanka surrenders to India. The country is made into a new province of India.
1959, June 2nd: Divers discover the wreck of the HMS Prince of Wales.
1959, October 13th: The Japanese government announces their intention to launch a satellite by 1965.
1960, February 11th: The Imperial Japanese Navy authorizes the laying down of five supercarriers. These are the Shinto, the Kamikaze, the Bushido,the Daimyo,and the Shogun. Each ship will carry 90 aircraft and will weigh 100,000 tons at full load.
1960, April 20th: Malaysian pro-independence terrorists set off a bomb in Singapore, killing 21 people.
1960, July 4th: The Japanese government declares the formation of the Imperial Space Exploration and Exploitation Department, or ISEED.
1961, January 18th: Prime Minister Shinzo Yoshida signs a Executive Decision banning the Communist Party. A nation wide crackdown is carried out which leads to the arresting of thousands of suspected dissidents.
1961, March 9th: The Japanese Army successfully tests a ICBM. Plans to construct ICBM launch bases in Dhaka and on Guadalcanal are quickly approved.
1962, September 13th: The new rank of Samurai is commissioned as a honorary title for heroes,similar to Knight in England.
1962, December 1st: As part of the Reconstruction of China, a plan is approved to transform the China-Tibet railway into the China-Tibet railway network, with branches in most of the major cites of both China and Tibet.
1962, February 9th: Port Moresby is renamed Shin Akita by the Japanese Governor-General of New Guinea.
1963, May 20th: The Ministry of Greater East Asia is reorganized into the Ministry of Internal Overseas Affairs.
1963, August 17th: The first Japanese satellite, Nippon-koku is launched from the Yamato Space Facility in Hiroshima.
1963, October 13th: Thousands of people attend a pro-multiparty Diet protest in Tokeyo.
1964, Janary 23rd: The Japanese National History Museum opens in Kobe.
1964, March 4th: In India, Councilman Rajiv Patil attempts a coup against the Council of State Guardianship And Peace. Soldiers from the 10th and 3rd Army Divisions, which are loyal to Patil seize control of most of New Delhi. Meanwhile, one of the agencies responsible for guarding the Council, the Indian Security Force, attempts to capture Rajendra Singh. in a vicious firefight, they are stopped and driven out of the Council Chambers by the Council Elite Guard.
1964, March 5th-7th: Troops loyal to the government retake New Delhi. Rajiv Patil is captured and is hanged for treason the next day. Hundreds of other people are killed in purges.
1965, June 23rd: The supercarrars Shogun and Kamikaze are commissioned in Osaka Naval Yards. Their sister ships will be finished over the next few months.
1965, August 1st: A incident occurs in the Bay of Bengal when three Indian gunboats sneak up on a Japanese destroyer. believing that it was under attack, the destroyer opened fire. though no one was hurt, tension s between the two countries rise.
1965, November 8th-19th: Bushido and Daimyo are commissioned on the eighth with Shinto following eleven days later.
1966, January 16th: A coal mine in Manchuria suffers a cave in, killing over a hundred people.
1966, March 3rd: The Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) organizes another protest, this one in Keijo.
1966, July 20th: Construction begins on the first Shinkansen (Bullet Train) line, which will go from Hiroshima to Sendai, passing through Kobe, Kyoto, Nagoya, Yokohama, and Tokyo. the new trains are expected to cut travel time by at least a third.
