Japan

Japan (endonyms, Nippon or Nihon) is a human nation native to East Asia with strong ties to the United States.

History
Japan is among the oldest nations among the major world powers, with is nationhood formally established in 660 BC. In 1853, American admiral Matthew Perry and his fleet came into Japan, demanding that the Japanese government end its centuries-long isolation from the rest of the world. Thanks to this, the Japanese shogunate complied to Perry's demands and opened itself to trade to the rest of the world. In the decades since, the Shogunate began to warm up to the US along with other western powers, and began exchanging technology, culture and emissaries with each other, beginning a long-standing and generally peaceful relationship between the two countries. By 1905, the island nation has reached the same level of technology as United States, even largely adopting aspects of western culture and model of government, kick-starting the Meiji era.

When World War I happened, Japan sided with the Triple Entente, aiding the United States when it formally entered the war in 1917. After the war ended in a stalemate, the Japanese government rejected plans to occupy Korea and the surrounding islands, leaving them to their own devices - or at the mercy of other countries. Japan remained the same when World War II happened, when it once again aided the United States against Nazi Germany. Because of this alliance, the bombing of Pearl Harbor never happened.

In the late 1940s, in the aftermath of World War II, communist revolts supported by Maoist China erupted all across Japan's major cities, with Tokyo, Osaka and Hiroshima facing the heaviest resistance. To combat this, the Japanese provisional government asked the United States for aid in suppressing the revolt. Thus, with the aid of seized German weapons the joint American and Japanese occupation forces brutally squashed every revolting group, quelling the communist uprising entirely. However, occasional incidents here and there persist to this day, every time quashed by government forces.

In the 1960s, at the height of the Cold War, a right-wing monarchist militia man named Otoya Yamaguchi barged into a Communist revolutionary meeting in civilian clothing, and then stabbed their leader Inejiro Asanuma with a single knife, shouting out his devotion to his country and the Emperor.