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|full_name=Empire of Japan

|government_type=Federal Constitutional Monarchy

|currency=Japanese Sen (JPS)

|flag=Flag of JapanRTL_Flag_of_Japan|map=Locator_Japan.png}}

'''Japan''' (Japanese: 日本, ''Nippon'' or ''Nihon)'' is an island country located in Eastern Asia. It is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, and extends from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north toward the East China Sea and Taulandt[[Tauland]] in the south. Japan also shares a border with the [[Ainu National Republic]] on the island of Ezo.

In March of 1896, the last TokugawaSakai Shogunshogun died without a appointed heir, leading to a secession crisis that resulted in the mostly bloodless Sakura revolution a month later. This would eventually lead to the abolishment of the Shogunate and the establishment of the Japanese Confederation lead by the Federalist faction, who would quickly bring reform to the government. By this time the Samurai class had already lost what little Bureaucratic powers they still had to the merchant class, so their abolition alongside the few still existing feudal systems faced little overall resistance. The 1899 constitution would give the Emperor (who had supported the Sakura revolution) very little, and mostly ceremonial power; however the emperor would later become a symbolic unifying figure of Japanese culture and the Japanese nation. During the 1910s the ruling Federalist enacted further reforms to central governmental power out of a necessity to streamline national administration. This led to a period of increased intranational business transactions further growing local industries, allowed for widespread infrastructural improvements, as well as the creation of a standing Army and Navy modeled off of the Kingdom of Corea’s. While this period of reform was seen by many to be the creation of modern Japanese society but to some there were widespread failures of the reforms including a discrepancy in provincial development and the failure of the national government to break the power of an autocratic local elite class.