The Rising of the Red Sun, the History of Greater Japan

This is a story about the history of Japan. These independent entries have been compiled by several historians during the centuries.

The Japanese nation was formed in the bronze age around 600BC, when cities of Kyotou and Edo united into one Kingdom under Kyotou's rule. These times are known as the Yayoi period, which lasted until 300AD.




The nation grew steadily and focused mainly on developing new weaponry and technologies. They also encountered the chinese for the first time. Very little is known about this event, but some historians believe that the later hostilities between these these nations may even have started on this first encounter.




Rumours of other civilizations living on the other edge of world spread to Edo from China around 200BC. The ambitious shogun of Edo ordered the carpenters to construct a trireme that can travel fast and carry big loads of cargo.

When the trireme was finished, the Shogun orderd 50 brave sailors to take their families with them and travel west as long as these civilizations are found. He also ordered scholars to travel with them so that they can learn new technologies from these civilizations. This simple act is considered to be the most important factor that, eventually, led to the creation of Greater Japan.

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During the Yayoi period Japanese wealth was based on the sea. Therefore great monuments like the Colossus, the Great Lighthouse and the Moai Statues were constructed in Kyotou during this time.




It is known for fact that the brave sailors from Edo encountered the first foreign civilizations their journey around these times. Ancient Indian writings mention sailors, who had reached the borders of the Indian Empire, coming from a distant land in the far east. According to writings the Indians greeted the Japanese sailors with joy and that the sailors met with another emissaries from a distant Greek Empire on Indian lands. Both of these nations were willing to share their knowledge with the Japanese scholars, since the Japanese knowledge and technologies are known to have increased during these years.




It likely that the Greeks explained to the Japanese scholars what Iron was. It had been founded on the hills northeast from Kyotou around the same times when the first scouts could have arrived from India back to Japan. The Japanese also learned how melt and forge weaponry out of Iron and therefore entered the Iron Age.




Most historians agree that the discovery of Iron eventually led to the conquering of Korea. Very little is known about this campaign except that the Japanese forces were armed with iron swords and that the Korean weaponry was no match to them.

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Good job till there, making these helpful trades and capturing Seoul before the Chinese.
Talking about China...any probability of invading the guys there soon, taking their coastal cities, and then capitulating them?

Thanks everybody!

micbic said:

Talking about China...any probability of invading the guys there soon, taking their coastal cities, and then capitulating them?

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You are getting pretty close here, except for one part. You'll see soon.

It is not known for fact that the Chinese were also planning an invasion to Korea, but this conclusion has been made by some writers of the History of Greater Japan, since China declared war on Japan sortly after the Japanese Empire had attached Keijou to the Empire.



It is clear that China's main goal was to capture Keijou, since a naval invasion to Japan wasn't possible as Japanese triremes controlled the sea. However, about same time China founded the city of Fuzhou on the southeastern coast of China. Historians believe that their intention was to question Japanese sea supremacy, though it is also known that they failed miserably as Japanese Navy discovered this city before it was fully established.




The first Sino-Japanese war started around 410AD when Japanese Swordmen landed on China's countryside and enslaved their workers. This war is well described in ancient documents found from the National Archives of Japan. After the looting of the countryside Japanese troops marched south and captured the lightly defended city of Fuzhou.




Meanwhile in mainland Japan the island of Kyushu was attached to the empire and the city of Kagoshima was founded on it. the Indians also taught the Japanese to use their Gregorian calendar, which was quickly adopted by the Japanese people.




The first Sino-Japanese war ended in 470AD as Chinese troops approached the cities of Keijou and Fukushuu simultaniously and the Japanese generals recommended to the emperor that peace would greatly benefit Japan at this point. This is also considered to be the ending point of the Kofun period.

Why make peace?? You can win the war if you churn out swordsmen and catapults...and he's about to build the Colosseum which will make if much harder.
In fact, your initial boat should have been a galley with which you can transport your initial swords onto the mainland much earlier.

AnotherPacifist said:

Why make peace?? You can win the war if you churn out swordsmen and catapults...and he's about to build the Colosseum which will make if much harder.
In fact, your initial boat should have been a galley with which you can transport your initial swords onto the mainland much earlier.

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I made the (temporary) peace because they were about to take Fukushuu and maybe raze it, so I didn't want to take the chance to build another settler. And when the peace ended, as you said it, Fukushuu churn out swordsmen and catapults. Meanwhile the chinese were kind enough to build another city, which I could use. And he build Mausoleum of Maussollos in Beijing, which is way more useful to me than Colosseum.

The swords have only few things to do there, since I rather conquer more chinese cities later than take them out completely in the beginning.

We can take all of mainland China without civil wars?

Yeah, in fact the fastest UHV was done some time ago by getting 8-10 good cities with collapsing the Chinese early on. Usi was the one that did it, I think.
I tried it once and made the stupid mistake of expanding too quickly without courthouses, which made me very behind in the 300-1000AD period, but I never lost a city or descended into civil war, and caught up very quickly afterwards.

I think the only way you can lose a city and fail the UHV is by conquest. In my game as Japan, I lost a city in China to Mongolia via congress and I still won.

Well, you've got through the Yayoi and Kofun periods well.

I wonder if you are planning on having a Sengoku period when the 15th century comes around. That would be interesting , though not so good for the UHV.

The Second Sino-Japanese war began in 640AD after a century of fragile peace. The events of this war are fairly well known and it is believed that the Japanese took initiative wanting to revenge the unfair peace of the First Sino-Japanese war.




Allthough, Japanese were at war with China they managed to keep good relationships to the civilizations they discovered in the west. This known by the foreign influence in construction during the Asuka period.




Japan prospered during the Asuka period and historians widely agree that in 690AD started the first Japanese Golden Age.




During this Golden Age Japanese were also victorius on battlefields and the siege of Nanjing ended in 750AD when Japanese swordmen burned the city to the ground. However, the Second Sino-Japanese is considered to have continued until 810AD, when Japanese troops captured Makao and signed peace with China.

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When the Heian Period began Japanese had become the most advanced civilization in the world. The realationships between China and Japan grew stronger and both nations benefit from it.




However, it is known that after the Second Sino-Japanese War the Japanese secretly started to plan an attack against the Chinese in order to gain more land to her growing population. The Japanese objectives are well described in an old military map dated 840AD, the red rounds probably describe new Japanese city locations as black cross over the Chinese city means that it will be destroyed. It is believed that the rumours of a rising nation of Mongols northwest of Pekin led to the postponing of these plans.




In 1060AD Japan was well established naval superpower and this probably led to the vassalisation of the Malinese peoples, who where seeking protection against the growing European powers. The medieval european documents show that Japanese emissaries also visited all the courts of signicant european nations.




Medieval documents claim that in 1120AD Japan's capital, Kyotou, habitet almost 15 million people and was by far the largest city of the world. The massive population led to increased scientifical investments and Japan's technology lead, compared to the backward european nations, grew steadily.

Because you are so advanced it might be better to research other techs before Liberalism so you can get a better free tech, for example researching Banking for free Economics, or PP for Constitution and then Democracy, or if you're really ambitious Banking + PP + Replaceable Parts and then get Rifling as a free tech, a GM, GE or GS could help here.

You're right and I took the usual astronomy as a free tech, since I wanted the conquerors back to Asia to fight the Khmers, so that I don't need to build any troops. Liberalism in the screenie just symbols the fact that Japan is, at the moment, way ahead, since it usuallly gets discovered around 1600.

EDIT: I took Military Tradition, just forgot it...

In the beginning of the Kamakura period Japan was under well established feudal rule. The rulers were called Shoguns and with them Japan moved under more militaristic goverment. Probably during these years the noble Samurai class gained more power. Also the rising of a hostile Mongol nation is believed to be the primary reason for the excessive military training that started around 1150AD.




The Mongols were immediately aggressive towards the Japanese and although no official declaration of war was presented by the Mongols, most historians agree that the two nation were at war from 1200AD on. The Mongols were also at war with the Chinese, which surprisingly made these old enemies allies, though this alliance was short lived.

Although the Mongolians were the aggressors, it is known that the Japanese Samurais, backed with Khmer based war elephants, took the initiative and marched from Korea against the chinese city of Ashan, which had been taken by the Mongols. The Mongol rabble could not defend this city against the well organized Samurais, who destroyed the city. A key factor in this short battle was that the fiered mongolian Keshiks were fighting against the Chinese near Pekin and therefore could not sent aid to the city.




The National Archives of Japan clearly signal that the ruling Japanese Shogun, Yoritomo, was not interested in conquering the distant and dry lands of Mongolia. His focus was on the fertile lands of China and he saw the Mongols as an potential ally. Therefore in 1240AD he made peace with the Mongols and declared war on China in order to crush the ancient enemy for good.




It is a known fact that this simple decision was the prime reason that erased the Chinese Empire from this world as a two front war was too much for Chinese to handle and the empire collapsed into several city states. The Japanese Samurais were eager to take control of these cities and they rushed over borders and took the cities of Seian and Qingzhou without larger resistance and hesitation before 1300AD.




Meanwhile the Japanese scientist worked hard on the mainland and discovered new technologies. The emperor wanted to expand the empire towards west over the great ocean, so the main focus was on shipbuilding.




In 1310AD the Shogun's army laid siege on the legendary city of Pekin and easily took it with their superior technology and pure strenght of the Samurais. The siege is not well described in the medieval documents, but it is known that the Japanese troops used cannons to soften Pekin's city walls. It is clear that this was the first time ever when gunpowder based weaponry was used to against city walls. The conquering of Pekin also marks the ending of the Kamakura period in 1310AD.

Interesting that the Mongolians won their 1st UHV despite your conquests.