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2024.01.31 09:37 tpjv86b Colonial regime made impassioned case for Japanese-Korean Unification in ranting mythological and historical narrative invoking the story of Yeonorang and Seonyeo, Shinto god Susanoo who settled in Silla, Prince Go Yak’gwang and Goguryeo refugees who settled in Musashi, Japan in 717 (April 1944)

Colonial regime made impassioned case for Japanese-Korean Unification in ranting mythological and historical narrative invoking the story of Yeonorang and Seonyeo, Shinto god Susanoo who settled in Silla, Prince Go Yak’gwang and Goguryeo refugees who settled in Musashi, Japan in 717 (April 1944)
A supporter sent me a copy of an extremely interesting wartime propaganda book published in April 1944 by the Imperial Japanese colonial regime which ruled Korea at the time. The 80-page book entitled '新しき朝鮮' (The New Korea) was in remarkably good condition and clearly legible for something that was published 80 years ago. It appears to have been published by the Information Department of the Office of Governor-General Koiso, who was arguably one of the most religiously fanatical of all the Governor-Generals who ever ruled Korea during the Imperial Japanese colonial period. As such, it is a very rare and important snapshot of the official propaganda that was imposed upon the Korean people as of April 1944, during a period of Imperial Japanese colonial rule when the intensity of Japanese-Korean Unification propaganda and State Shinto religious propaganda reached their peak.
'The New Korea' reads like a desperate appeal to the Korean people to rally them to the colonial regime's side, touting the accomplishments of the colonial regime since Annexation in 1910, including agriculture, industrial development, infrastructure, transportation, communications, military development, education, literacy, natural preservation, etc. Many of the arguments presented in this book about these accomplishments sound remarkably similar to modern Japanese far-right historical revisionist arguments defending Imperial Japanese colonial rule over Korea, which suggests that, perhaps, the propaganda published by the colonial regime in Korea was also used to indoctrinate people in mainland Japan.
However, the part of the book that diverges significantly from the modern Japanese far-right narratives is the Japanese-Korean Unification propaganda, which modern Japanese far-right activists generally feel embarrassed about and prefer to avoid as much as possible. The promotional book starts off with the following preface which rants a Japanese-Korean Unificationist historical narrative touting the historical links between Japan and Korea from ancient mythological times through the medieval period, highlighting the various times throughout history when Japan absorbed Korean migrants who eventually became naturalized Japanese people. It essentially politicizes Japanese-Korean history to justify the colonization of Korea by Imperial Japan. Thus, this preface, which was otherwise meant to be a morale booster for the Korean people in the midst of a desperate war, might have actually been highly offensive and demoralizing to Korean readers at the time. For example, I would guess that the passage which celebrates the disappearance of the Arirang, a beloved Korean folk song, would not have been well received by the Korean readership.
In his February 1944 speech, Koiso actually argued that the Korean people were descended from the Shinto god Susanoo, but that line appears to have been quietly walked back in this April 1944 book. Nevertheless, Susanoo is still mentioned in this book to demonstrate the close connection between Korea and Japan. The historical narratives contained in the 1943 articles about Buyeo (April 19/20 articles, April 21 article) also appear to have made their way into this book in condensed form.
[Translation]
Chapter One: Introduction
The Robust Frontline
"Can a country so sad be made, with its continuous mountains of red clay and bald hills?"
As once lamented by a certain poet, the impression and sad reality of Korea, up to twenty years ago or even just a decade ago, was of reddish clay bald mountains and women in white clothes doing laundry. However, how has it changed? In the few decades that followed, not only did the bald mountains turn green, but the rapid transformation of world history and the leap forward in the construction of the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere under the Imperial Japanese guidance, leading the billion people of Asia, has completely changed Korea. Korea has risen up as a part of this grand holy work, being nurtured as a logistic base for our continental operations, altering not only its robust appearance but even the very nature of the Korean Peninsula.
Instead of the women in white clothes who once made laundry their day's work, there are now sincere women of the "Village Labor Service Corps" under its flag, unwaveringly pulling weeds in the fields and cleaning Shinto shrines. In place of the sorrowful melody of "Arirang" flowing through the streets at dusk, brave military songs now march through the cities, accompanied by the firm footsteps of the youth corps. The once desolate hills on the outskirts have been cultivated into factories spewing black smoke from their chimneys. The remaining red clay mountains with their layers are now the battlegrounds for important underground resource development, tirelessly striving day and night for the annihilation of Britain and America. Students and youths, who once lost sight of their hopes in a blurred vision and recklessly sought the opium of misguided thoughts, have now had their souls cleansed by the fierce waves of the holy war. For the first time, they find infinite hope in offering their blood for loyalty only as Japanese people, enjoying the pride of being a leading core nation among the billion people of East Asia. Holding onto the excitement of the day when conscription was announced, they continue to diligently train day and night, preparing for the day they are called, to achieve the honorable position promised to them in the future through their efforts and the fulfillment of their noble duties.
What would the poet who once called Korea a "sad country" now write, facing the fierce spirit and robust reality of this fighting Korea?
Korea is advancing. Its sole goal is "Together with the endless development of Imperial Japan."
Korea is advancing. Let us momentarily lend our ears to the powerful, majestic, and tidal-like advancing footsteps of the 26 million compatriots.
The Relationship between Japan and Korea
Without even needing to spread out a map, it is evident that Korea is a continental peninsula extending from the Japanese mainland across the Genkai Sea to the Asian continent and Manchuria. However, when examining the histories of both sides, it becomes clear how inseparably connected Korea and the Japanese mainland have been since the divine era three thousand years ago. From the Korean perspective, the true history of Korea arguably begins with its relationship with the Japanese mainland, rather than the adjacent Asian continent. Korea has grown under Japan's constant protection and has finally returned to the bosom of its nurturing parent.
The legend is well-known… The tale of Susanoo-no-Mikoto in the "Nihon Shoki" is famous. Susanoo, banished from Takamagahara, descended to the land of Silla with his son, Isotakeru, and lived in Soshimori. Later, he crafted a boat from clay and crossed the Eastern Sea to reach the land of Izumo (Regarding the location of Soshimori, there are two theories based on the pronunciation in Korean: one places it at Mount Udu in Chuncheon, Gangwon Province, and the other at Seorabeol, i.e., Gyeongju in North Gyeongsang Province, which was once the capital of Silla). Shinra Myōjin of Ōtsu, revered by Shinra Saburō who is known as the ancestor of the Kai Genji warrior class in our country, is said to have worshipped Manjushri, who is said to have been Susanoo himself.
Furthermore, the land dragging legend.html), as found in Japan's oldest geographical record, the "Izumo Fudoki," is well known. It is also widely known that in the era following Emperor Suinin, a prince of Silla named Amenohiboko, yearning for the holy land of Japan, abdicated his throne to his younger brother, came to Japan, and settled in the province of Tajima. Similarly, Korea has many legends like this. One interesting story deeply related to the Japanese land dragging legend goes as follows:
This event occurred in the fourth year of the reign of King Adalla, the eighth ruler of Silla. On the eastern coast lived a couple named Yeonorang and Seonyeo. One day, Yeonorang went to the sea to collect seaweed and happened to climb onto a rock. This rock, with him on it, drifted all the way to Japan. The people of Japan, upon seeing him, declared, "He is no ordinary man," and made him their king. Seonyeo, after waiting in vain for her husband's return, went to the shore and found his straw sandals left on the rock. The same rock then carried her to Japan, where she became the queen alongside Yeonorang.
However, after their departure, Silla lost the light of the sun and the moon and was plunged into darkness. It was said that the spirits of the sun and the moon, which had resided in the country, had departed for Japan. Consequently, the king of Silla urgently sent envoys to Japan to bring them back. But the couple refused to return, saying, "Our coming here is a decree of the heavens." Instead, they sent back a piece of silk fabric woven by Seonyeo, instructing that it be used to worship the heavens. When the envoys returned to Silla and conducted the celestial worship as instructed, the lost sunlight and moonlight returned as before. The place where this worship was performed was named Yeongilhyeon (영일현, 迎日縣).
Original caption: \"Majestic View of the East Coast (Near Haegumgang in Gangwon Province)\"
History Speaks…
Beyond legends, the deep interactions between Japan and Korea, as clearly narrated by historical facts, have always been evident. Throughout the Three Kingdoms period, the Unified Silla period, the Goryeo era, and up to modern times in Korea, it is apparent that the two have always had an inseparable relationship, akin to lips and teeth. This was not merely a diplomatic relationship bound by friendship or goodwill. Korea, constantly threatened by invasions from northern tribes on the continent, grew under the protection of Japanese power. Moreover, Japan's ideal of founding a nation encompassing all under heaven, with Korea solidly established as a forward base for continental operations, can be described as a relationship of shared destiny and blood ties.
For Japan, the Korean Peninsula has always been a bridge to the Asian continent. This is a geographical absolute, unchanged in the past and present. Now, as the grand project of building the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere steadily progresses, the Korean Peninsula's critical role as a logistic base is more apparent. It was natural for it to have played a role as the sole route of influx during the era of absorbing continental culture. Moreover, the direct and significant influence of Korea on Japanese customs, thoughts, industries, arts, and other aspects of life is an undeniable fact, evident without needing extensive evidence. Japan assimilated and digested these cultures on the basis of its consistent traditions, creating a unique and magnificent culture of its own.
Meanwhile, this led to a continuous influx of cultural figures from the Asian continent and people yearning for the beautiful peace and divine nation of Japan, resulting in their naturalization. Among them, the largest number of naturalized citizens were Koreans, which seems only natural given the geographical relationship. Especially after the collapse of Baekje and Goguryeo, which had integral ties with Japan, many of their people who refused to submit to Tang China or Silla sought asylum in Japan. According to our records, initially, the naturalized people from Silla, Goguryeo, and Baekje were settled in the eastern regions. In the third year of the reign of Empress Genshō (717 c.e.), 1,799 people from Goguryeo scattered across the Kanto and Chubu regions were relocated to Musashino (in Iruma District, Saitama Prefecture), and the Koma District was established. The leader of these people from Goguryeo, Go Yak'gwang, was granted the surname "Ō (王)" by Emperor Monmu and was subsequently enshrined as the Fifth Shirahige Myōshin. The Koma Shrine still exists in that area, and its current chief priest is the fifty-seventh descendant of Go Yak'gwang.
Original Caption: \"During the fall of Baekje, it is said that two thousand court ladies, sharing the fate of the dynasty, threw themselves into the water like falling flowers at the Buyeo self-warming platform and Naghwaam Rock by the Baekmagang River.\"
Original Caption: \"Buddhist Statue from the Baekje Era (Identical to the Baekje Kannon statue in Nara's Horyuji Temple)\"
\"Koma Shrine (Located in Iruma District, Saitama Prefecture)\"
Furthermore, there are over 300 place names in mainland Japan named after these naturalized residents, and a considerable number of shrines are believed to enshrine Koreans. In the early Heian period, in the sixth year of Emperor Saga's reign (815 c.e.), the newly compiled "Shinsen Shojiroku" was created by Imperial command. It compiled the genealogies of 1,177 distinguished families in both capitals and the five provinces of Kinai. At that time, genealogies were broadly classified into three categories: Imperial descent (descendants of emperors), divine descent (descendants of deities from the age of the gods, excluding Imperial family members), and foreign descent (naturalized people). Among these 1,177 families, the fact that 326 were of foreign descent illustrates how naturalized citizens were favored in our country. This shows that there have been many descendants of naturalized Koreans among the well-known figures of our country, from ancient times to the present.
[Transcription]
第一章 序説
逞しき前線
禿山の赤土山の山つづき悲しき国をつくれるものかな
曾て某歌人が嘆いた如く、赭土色の禿山と洗濯する白衣婦人、これが二十年前或は十数年前までの朝鮮の印象であり悲しい現実でもあった。それがどうであろうか、其の後僅か十数年の時の流れが単に禿山を緑と化したばかりでなく、急激に転換する世界歴史の飛躍は、御稜威の下アジア十億の民を率いて起つ皇国日本の大東亜共栄圏建設という大いなる聖業の進展と共に、その一環として起ち上がった朝鮮を我が大陸経営の兵站基地として育て上げ、今やその逞しい姿だけでなく半島朝鮮の性格そのものまでも一変してしまったのである。
そこには洗濯を一日の仕事とした白衣婦人の代りに「部落勤労奉仕隊」旗の下に田の草取りや神祠の清掃にわき目もふらぬ婦人達の真摯な姿があり、また黄昏の街を流れるアリランの哀調に代って勇壮な軍歌が、青年隊の大地をしっかと踏みしめる靴音と共に市街を行進してゆく。郊外の荒廃した丘陵は切り拓かれて工場の煙突が黒々と煙を吐き、所々に残る赤土山の断層は、日夜ひたすら米英撃滅を目ざして敢闘する重要地下資源開発の生産戦場なのだ。曾ては自らの希望を混濁せる視野の中に見失い、誤れる思想の阿片を自棄的に求めた学生層と青少年達は、いま烈しい聖戦の荒浪に魂を洗われ、はじめて日本人として殉忠の血を捧げることによってのみ東亜十億の指導的中核民族たるの誇りを享受し得るという無限の希望を見出し、将来に約束されたその栄誉ある地位を自らの努力と貴い義務の遂行によって獲得すべく、徴兵制実施に爆発させたあの日の感激を其の儘しっかと抱いて、召される日に備えて日夜たゆみなき錬成に精進を続けている。
曾て「悲しき国」と詠んだ歌人は、今この戦う朝鮮の烈しい気魄と逞しい現実を直視して果してなんと詠むであろうか。
朝鮮は前進する。その目標はただ一つ「皇国日本の無窮の発展と共に」
朝鮮は前進する。堂々とそして力強い二千六百万同胞の潮のような前進の跫音に、我々はしばし耳をすまそうではないか。
内鮮の関係
改めて地図を拡げてみるまでもなく、朝鮮は日本本土と玄海灘を距てて満州大陸に続く大陸半島である。然しその両方の歴史を繙いてみるときに三千年前の神代から現在に至るまで朝鮮と日本内地とが如何に一体不離の関係に結ばれてきたか。それを朝鮮側からみるときは、真の朝鮮史は寧ろ陸続きの大陸より海を距てた日本内地との関係にはじまり、絶えざる日本の庇護の下に成長して今日遂に育ての親の懐にかえった、ということが出来るのである。
伝説にきく．．．日本書紀に見える素戔嗚尊の説話は余りに有名である。高天原を追われになった素戔嗚尊がその子五十猛神と共に新羅の国に下り、曾尸茂梨に居られたが、後更に埴土を以て舟を作り東の海を渡って出雲の国に赴かれたというのである。（曾尸茂梨の地については、現在朝鮮語の発音から江原道春川の牛頭山という説と、蘇那伐、即ち昔時新羅の都であった慶尚北道慶州という説と二つある）我が国武門の名家甲斐源氏の祖として知られる新羅三郎が尊崇した大津の新羅明神は、この素戔嗚尊の本身文珠大士を祀ったものといわれる。
また日本で最も古い地理書である出雲風土記に見える国引の伝説や、垂仁天皇の後世新羅王子天日槍が、聖天子の国日本にあこがれて王位を弟に譲って来朝し、但馬の国に住んだという話は既に広く知られているが、一方朝鮮にもこれに似た伝説は可なり多い。その一つに、日本側の国引説と深い関係ある次のような興味ある話が伝えられている。
新羅の第八代阿達羅王の四年のことである。東海の浜に延烏郎、細烏女という夫婦が住んでいた。延烏郎はある日海に藻をとりに行った時ちょっと巌の上に乗ったところがその巌が彼を乗せた儘日本に行ってしまった。日本の人達は彼をみて「これは尋常な人ではない」と言ってその土地の王様にしてしまった。細烏女はいくら待っても夫が帰って来ないので海辺に行って見ると巌の上に夫の草鞋が脱いであった。その巌は亦彼女を日本に居る延烏郎の許に運び、細烏女はそこで王妃になった。ところがこの二人が去ると新羅は日や月の光がなくなり真っ暗になってしまった。その時「この国にあった日や月の精が日本に去ってしまったからだ」と言う者があったので、新羅の王は早速使を日本にやって二人を帰らせようとした。然し二人は「自分がここに来たのは天の命である」と言って遂に帰らず、細烏女の織った絹の布を渡して、これで天を祭るように言った。そこで使は新羅に帰ってこの旨を王に復命して言われた通りに天を祭ると、失われた日や月はまたもとの如く光り明るくなった。その祭った所を迎日県と名付けた。
歴史は語る．．．伝説以後に於ける日本と朝鮮の深い交渉は史実が判然りと物語る通り、三国時代、新羅一統時代、高麗時代を経て近世朝鮮に至るまで、その間幾多波瀾消長こそあれいつの時代を通じてみても常に両者は唇歯の関係にあったことは明らかである。それは単なる友好とか親善とかいう外交的関係に結ばれたものではなく、絶えず大陸からの北方民族の侵略に脅かされる朝鮮が、日本勢力の庇護によって生長し、また八紘を掩うて宇と為す日本肇国の理想が、その大陸経営の前進基地として朝鮮に確固たる根拠を置いたところの所謂同生共死の関係に結ばれた血縁であるといえる。
日本にとって朝鮮半島は大陸へのかけ橋である。これは昔も今も変わらない地理的絶対条件である。大東亜共栄圏建設の大事業が着々と進展する現在、その兵站基地たる重大使命を果たしつつある半島が、曾つて大陸文化の吸収時代にその唯一の流入ルートとしての役割を有したことはむしろ当然であろう。そして日本の風俗、思想、産業、芸術その他生活様式の一切に亙って朝鮮が直接的に大きな影響をもたらしたことは、幾多の考証を持ち出すまでもなく動かすことの出来ぬ事実である、日本は一貫する伝統の上にこれらの文化を摂取咀嚼し日本化することによって一つの偉大な日本固有の文化をつくり上げ、それを身につけたのであった。
一方これは大陸の文化人と、美しい平和と神の国日本に憧れる人々の続々たる来朝となり、その帰化をもたらした。その中でも朝鮮人の帰化者が最も多数を占めたことは、地理的関係からむしろ当然であろう。特に日本と一体的関係にあった百済や高句麗の滅亡後、唐や新羅に服することを潔としないその遺民が日本に亡命する者が多かった。我が国の記録によると新羅、高句麗、百済の帰化人を最初東国地方におかれたが、元正天皇の霊亀三年（1377年）には関東、中部地方に散在する高句麗人千七百九十九人を武蔵野（埼玉県入間郡）に移して高麗郡を建てさせたとある。この高麗人の統率者であった人が、文武天皇から「王」という姓を賜わり、従五位下白髭明神として祀られる王若光で、その地には今も高麗神社があり、現在同神社の神主は王若光より五十七代の後裔に当る。
この他内地各地には、これら帰化人の住んだことに因んで名付けられた地名が三百を超え、朝鮮人を祀ったと考えられる神社も相当にある。
また平安朝時代の初め、嵯峨天皇の弘仁六年（1475年）に勅命によって出来た新撰姓氏録は、左右両京及び畿内五ヶ国に籍を有する名家千百七十七氏が系図を作り、それを整理したものである。当時は系図を大別して、皇別（天皇より分かれたもの）、神別（神代の神々の後裔の内皇族を除いたもの）、諸蕃（帰化人）の三つとしていたが、その千百七十七氏の中、諸蕃が三百二十六氏を数えられることによっても如何に我が国に於いて帰化人が優遇されたかが判り、昔から現代に亙って我が国知名人に多数の帰化朝鮮人の後裔があるのである。
Captions：
雄大な東海岸の風景（江原道海金剛附近）
百済滅亡の際、王朝と運命を倶にした宮女二千が落花の如く水中に投じたという扶余の自温台落花巌と白馬江の流れ
百済時代の仏像（奈良法隆寺の百済観音像と全く同じ）
高麗神社（埼玉県入間郡所在）
Source: 朝鮮総督府情報課編纂 [Chōsen Sōtokufu Jōhōka Hensan (Compilation by the Information Department of the Governor-General's Office of Korea)]. 新しき朝鮮 [Atarashiki Chōsen (The New Korea)]. 京城府中区太平通二ノ四三: 日本出版配給株式会社, 昭和十九年四月二十五日 [Keijōfu Nakaku Taiheidori 2-43: Nihon Shuppan Haikyū Kabushiki Kaisha, April 25, 1944].
Link: https://archive.org/details/atarashiki-chosen-1944
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2023.07.22 01:07 Meester_Tweester UltCore July 22nd Feat. Miya, Asimo, Tsubaki, Umeki, Snow, takera, Masha, DIO, M0tsunabE, Atelier, Sigma, Yamanaction, & more! ACE-HIGH July 22nd-23rd Feat. Neo, Hurt, SebPro101, Eldin, Tanark, XIFL, Zeon, maidan, Terrarian, yooo冰, Yanbu, Fryd Ryce, & more!

There are two large tournaments in Asia this weekend that will be covered in this thread: UltCore, an Ultimate major in Nagoya, Japan, and ACE-HIGH, an Ultimate super regional in Tangerang, Indonesia!

UltCore July 22nd Nagoya, Japan

UltCore is an Ultimate major this Saturday with 300 players, and is the Chubu region's first major tournament!

Brackets

Best of 5 starts for the Winners' and Losers' qualifying sets to get into Top 96.

Streaming Information

Event Schedule All Times JST (UTC+9)

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Saturday, July 22nd
  • 10:30 End of registration and opening speech
  • 10:40 Qualifying Tournament begins
  • 13:00 Qualifying Tournament ends, break starts
  • 13:40 Start of Main Tournament
  • 14:00 Start of side event - "Smash freaks"
  • 20:00 All events end and clean-up begins
Please note that the schedule may be subject to change. Please understand that the schedule may have to be changed.
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EDT conversion:
  • 9:30 p.m. Friday: End of registration and opening speech
  • 9:40 p.m.: Qualifying Tournament begins
  • 12:00 a.m. Saturday: Qualifying Tournament ends, break starts
  • 12:40 a.m.: Start of Main Tournament
  • 1:00 a.m.: Start of side event - "Smash freaks"
  • 7:00 a.m.: All events end and clean-up begins

Seeding

  1. FTG ミーヤー / Miya (Mr. Game & Watch) [Kansai]
  2. SZ Asimo (Ryu) [Chugoku]
  3. ツバキ / Tsubaki (Joker) [Chubu]
  4. MRG VGBC Umeki (Daisy) [Kanto]
  5. ス スノー / Snow (Mario) [Kansai]
  6. SNB takera (Ken) [Kanto]
  7. ましゃ / Masha (Wolf) [Chubu]
  8. DIO (Snake) [Chubu]
Early DQs: Suinoko DQs: Tora, Kepler, Sassan

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ACE-HIGH July 22nd-23rd Tangerang, Indonesia

"You've been graced by ACE-HIGH! This is Indonesia's first ever big Smash Bros. tournament, and you are more than welcome to be a part of it! The prize pool is Rp23000000, provided by Hendra Hidayat Implant Center. Whether you play for fun or take the game seriously, everyone is welcome to participate. Let’s make this event a success, and be a part of Indonesian gaming history! The current prize pool is the biggest prize pool for Smash events in Southeast Asia, so what are you waiting for?"
ACE-HIGH is an Ultimate super regional in Indonesia this weekend, which is Southeast Asia's first B-tier! At 114 entrants it is the largest tournament in Indonesia. Several top reps from Southeast Asian countries are in attendance: raelu from Indonesia, Terrarian from Singapore, Lookkrung from Thailand, Cam ping from Malaysia, and Hashibobo from the Philippines. Many out of region players will be participating as well: Neo and Hurt from Japan, Tanark from South Korea, yooo冰 from China, XIFL from Hong Kong, SebPro101 and Fryd Ryce from Australia, and Eldin and Zeon from the United States. The tournament will have the largest prize pool for Southeast Asia Smash Bros. at Rp23,000,000, equivalent of US$1,529.

Brackets

Streaming Information

Smash Indonesia

Event Schedule All Times WIB (UTC+7)

Time Zone Converter, -14h for PDT, -13h for MDT, -12h for CDT, -11h for EDT, -6h for BST, -5h for CEST, +1h for WITA/AWST, +2h for WIT/JST, +3h for AEST
Saturday, July 22nd
Event is from 10:00 to ~17:00 WIB.
Sunday, July 23rd
Event is from 10:00 to ~17:00 WIB.
Zone Start time (both days)
PDT 8:00 PM the day before
MDT 9:00 PM the day before
CDT 10:00 PM the day before
EDT 11:00 PM the day before
BST 4:00
CEST 5:00
WITA/AWST 11:00
WIT/JST 12:00
AEST 1:00 PM

Seeding

  1. BUZZ Neo (Female Corrin) [Kanto, Japan]
  2. FTG Hurt (Snake, Greninja) [Kyushu, Japan]
  3. EXO SebPro101 (R.O.B.) [Victoria, Australia]
  4. Eldin (Rosalina & Luma) [South Carolina, living in Thailand]
  5. Tanark (Fox) [Seoul Capital Area, South Korea]
  6. NS BIGBIGTTARFAN600FAN600 (XIFL) (Roy) [Hong Kong, living in Ontario, Canada]
  7. GORM Zeon (Falco) [Florida, living in Thailand]
  8. NS BIGTTARFAN600 (maidan) (Ike) [Hong Kong, living in Ontario, Canada]
Preliminary seeding, final seeding

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2023.06.01 06:17 KyParachute 19 day Japan itinerary (Tokyo, Chubu, Kyushu region) check

Hi guys, I would be planning a solo trip to Japan in End June for Tokyo, Chubu and Kyushu region, have been in the popular cities in previous trips so am hoping to explore more in the Chubu and Kyushu region. My pit stops in Tokyo is mainly to strike a good balance between city/nature and will be focused on food and drinks (have been to most attractions previously)
Itinerary:
Day 1 (Tokyo): Arrive in Tokyo in the late afternoon, check in to hotel in Toyosu
Day 2 (Tokyo):
  1. Breakfast - Sushi dai + Explore Toyosu market
  2. Teamlabs
  3. Gundam base
  4. Check in to new hotel in Shinjuku and explore city
Day 3 (Tokyo):
  1. Day trip to KamaKura
  2. Explore shibuya at night
Day 4 (Tokyo):
  1. Day trip to Nikko
  2. Explore Asakusa
Day 5 (Tokyo -> Lake Kawaguchiko):
  1. Leave tokyo early in the morning to five fuji lake area
  2. Explore five fuji lake area (Mt. Fuji Panoramic Ropeway, Oishi Park)
Day 6 (Lake Kawaguchiko)
  1. Chureito Pagoda and explore other lake area
Day 7 (Lake Kawaguchiko -> Matsumoto):
  1. Leave for matsumoto in the morning
  2. Matsumoto Castle
  3. Matsumoto City Museum of Art
Day 8 (Matsumoto -> Kamikochi):
  1. Leave early morning to Kamikochi
  2. Check in to hotel and explore Kamikochi trails
Day 9 (Kamikochi -> Matsumoto):
  1. Hike at short trails in the morning
  2. Travel back to Matsumoto
  3. Explore Matsumoto Nawate Street
Day 10 (Matsumoto-> Alpine Route Tateyama-Kurobe -> Kanazawa):
  1. Early morning bus to Alpine Route Tateyama-Kurobe. (Ogizawa route ending at Tateyama).
  2. Train from Toyama to Kanazawa for the night
Day 11 (Kanazawa):
Visit Kenrokuen Garden, Kanazawa Castle Park, Higashi Chaya District. Explore Omicho Market at the night
Day 12 (Kanazawa -> Osaka):
  1. Train to Osaka
  2. Go to Dotonbori / Shinsekai
Day 13 (Osaka)
  1. Explore the Kuromon market
  2. Osaka aquarium
  3. Explore Osaka bars
Day 14 (Osaka -> Fukuoka):
  1. Explore Fukuoka attractions
  2. Yatai at night
Day 15 (Fukuoka):
  1. Day guided trip to Miyazaki
Day 16 (Fukuoka -> Nagasaki)
  1. Atomic bomb museum
  2. China town
  3. Mount inasa
Day 17 (Nagasaki)
  1. Gunkanjima
  2. Huis Ten Bosch
Day 18 (Nagasaki -> Fukuoka)
  1. Travel from nagasaki to Fukuoka
  2. Explore remaining attractions of Fukuoka
Day 19 (Fukuoka -> Tokyo)
  1. Travel from Fukuoka to Tokyo
  2. Souvenir shopping
Day 20 (Tokyo)
  1. Flight back to country
Some questions:
  1. Is the itinerary pace generally ok?
  2. For day 4 in Tokyo, i am considering whether it makes more sense to have a night over in Hakone instead. The other option would be to bring forward five fuji and add on an extra day at Matsumoto for day trip to Nagano. Any advice?
  3. If hakone is recommended, would you recommend gora or hakone yumoto area to stay?
Any other feedback/comments is most welcome! Thank you :)
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2023.02.17 19:44 wiifitkid2 ROCKON Seeding Featuring Paseriman, Azarush, Riteshia, Yoko, Ishi, Ke-ya, Akio, Arika, haruka. and more

ROCKON is a C tier in the Tohoku region of Japan this wekeend. An interesting tournament as it is using swiss pools.
It's been a while since we saw a big event in Tohoku. Admittedly, this region regularly gets farmed by out of region players. Despite this, Tohoku players have made pretty significant upsets, like when Nau bested ProtoBanham at TSC 13. Hopefully we get a surprise like that here.
Nau vs Paseriman Set: https://www.youtube.com/live/wkm5dWFkzyk?t=2h18m19s
The other interesting storyline is to watch the Tohoku subregions meet up. Many of these players don't interact much. But this event made it a point to invite top players from each of it's subregions.
As to the seeding, I think it is pretty bad based upon what I do know about the region, unless my knowledge is simply out of date.
I intend to write up a few of my thoughts on the top players later. But I've included all the players I recognize by group below. Seeds are in parentheses.
(*) = Player to watch out for that could make an uspset
(**)= Player that I think could be a threat to make it deep
(***) = The players that I think are have the best shot of upsetting Paseriman.
Group 1:
  1. Paseriman (Fox) (1)
  2. Azarush (Ike) (8) ***
  3. Fire (BowseAegis) (9)**
  4. TRIGGER (Simon) (16) ***
  5. London (Captain Falcon) (17)**
  6. Excalibur (Game & Watch) (25)
  7. Kamuko no Namaashi Bikyaku Doriru (Terry) (32)***
  8. No 8. (Luigi) (40)**
  9. Amopope (Pichu) (41)
  10. Oushi (Bowser) (48)**
  11. Netsuka (Unsure) (49)
  12. Eh (Min Min) (56)
  13. Fujihara (Shulk) (57)*
Group 2:
  1. Yoko (R.O.B.) (2)***
  2. himo_pechio (Lucas) (7)**
  3. Ishi (Wii Fit) (10) **
  4. Wanipachi (MK) **
  5. Rattsu (Kazuya/Greninja) (18) **
  6. Rokkon (Aegis) (23) **
  7. Yu (Not the Chubu one) (all the shotos and shot likes) (26)
  8. UTTAMA (Zelda/Aegis) (34)
  9. ChanP (Min Min) (39)
  10. Chiii!!! (Yoshi) (42)*
  11. Thyla (Snake) (47)**
  12. Nekodaruma (Kirby) (50)*
  13. Moitama (Roy) (55) **
  14. Kuromame (Mario) (58)
  15. Mido- (Min Min) (79)
Group 3 :
  1. Riteshia (Aegis) (3) ***
  2. Arika (Jigglypuff) (6) **
  3. Anpanoishi (Terry) (11) *
  4. Anko (R.O.B.) (14) * - apparently a different anko than the Kansai one that also plays rob.
  5. Ocha (Rosa) (19)**
  6. Osakana (Y.L.) (22)**
  7. DAICHI (Shulk) (27) **
  8. ramuda (Greninja) (30) *
  9. Ryokutan (G&W) (35) **
  10. Terao (Palutena) (38)
  11. Halo (Link) (43) **
  12. Taiyaki (?) (46)** - I'm not sure if this is the same one, but tohoku used to have a pretty strong Wii fit under this tag. Before that he played ganon
  13. Tesheriko (Min Min) (54)
  14. Funbaruby (62) (Daisy, Bowser Jr.)
  15. Yuu(ge)ki (Fox, Falco) (86)
  16. Deeple (...) (102)**
  17. Zoo3 (Terry) (110)
  18. Suru (Ryu) (126)
Group 4:
  1. Ke-ya (Robin) (4) **
  2. Akio (Shulk) (5) ***
  3. Az (Steve) (13) **
  4. haruka. (Lucario) (20) ***
  5. Fuusui (Y.L.) (21) **
  6. Haruru (Hero) (28) **
  7. Onjoji (Snake) (29)
  8. Mizuho (Dark Samus, Samus) (29)
  9. Koyupon (Olimar) (37) (Arguably Japans best Olimar that wasn't at Kagaribi) *
  10. Ryan Shogun (Byleth) (44) *
  11. Kuniki (Pit, Dark Pit) (45) *
  12. Kazu (Pikachu) (76)
  13. China (C.F) (101) *
  14. Harumaki (Bayo?) (108) - not sure if the old smash 4 bayo.
Links
Bracket: https://www.start.gg/tournament/rockon-1/event/singles-tournament
Power Rankings:
For the region and some subregion PRs. https://www.ssbwiki.com/Tohoku_Power_Rankings#Super_Smash_Bros._Ultimate
Twitter: https://twitter.com/ROCKON_Smash?t=8JqFpGzWPi7aCLNobgDcVg&s=09
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2022.11.21 08:30 LanguageValuable6399 Using DHL, the time limit from China to Japan is only 3 days😚

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2022.11.11 12:36 AlarmingPassage [24.03-15.04 Honeymoon] (Kanto, Kansai, Chugoku, Chubu) Booked: Flight+Hotel(cancel possible)

Hi my friends,
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everything has been booked and approved now. Our Wedding date is set and we will have our flight to Japan on 23.03.2023 (a lot of 3s). We will land in Narita Airport. Now my beloved is not vaccinated due to health issues and need to do a PCR test. We hope everything works out!
Our interest:
I have been to japan once before in 2019 and will be doing a lot of repeat sighting. As for my fiancee, it's her first time.
We both love adventour as well as quite places to relax. We love nature, sights and culture.
We are big on food and love to try out as much as possible without big spending. We love tea and she loves coffee.
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Itinerary
Tokyo 6 Days + Trips
Hotel in Asakusa 2 Days
  1. arriving Narita: Ameyayokocho, Ueno Park, Yanaka, Rikugien Garden
  2. Yokohama: Yokohama Park, Cup Noodle Museum, China Town
Hotel in Shinjuku 4 Days
  1. AnimeJapan(Tokyo Big Sight station), Odaiba, Walk back (Meguro, Ebisu, Daikanyama)
  2. Kabuchiko ,Shinjuku Gyoen, Nezu Museum, Roppongi Hills, Midtown Garden
  3. Enoshima: Hasadera, Tsurugaoka, Hokokuji, Enoshima Island
  4. Chidorigafuchi Moat, Shibuya, Daikanyama , Ebisu, Meguro
JR Pass 14 Days
Okayama 2 Days + Trip
  1. Train Tokyo: Okayama Garden, Castle, Onomichi
  2. Train to Imabari: E-Bike and riding around the nearest island and back. Is there a ferry which we can take back to Imabari? Train back to Okayama
Kyoto 5 Days + Trip
Hotel in Kyomizu Gojo
  1. 9:00 at Himeji Castle, Kyomizudera-Gion, Shogunzuka Mound, Kodachi Temple, Kaege Incline
  2. Kurama, Kibune, Botanical Garden, Maruyama Park, Gion
  3. Arashiyama: Train+Boat tour, Tenryu-Ji, Okochi Sanso Villa, Kameyama Koen Park, Kinkakuji, Fushimi (doable?)
  4. Nara: Isui-En Garden, Yoshiki-En, Todaji, Nigatsu-do Hall
  5. Bike: North East up-down, Ginkakuji, Shugakuin, Enko-ji, Random North East, Picknick Kamo River, Ending Gyon
Osaka 3 Days +Trip
Hotel Miyako City 2 Days
  1. Osaka Castle, Osaka Museum, Osaka Mint Buraeu, Kenma Park, Umeda Sky, Dotonbori
  2. Yoshino, Osaka Kaiyukan, Dotonbori
Hotel at Umeda Station 1 Day
  1. Hiroshima Dome(maybe museum, but I don't like saddening museum), Miyajima
Chubu 4 Days
Hotel Kanazawa
  1. Kanazawa Castle, Garden, Ninjadera, Nagamachi
Hotel Takayama
  1. Bus from Kanazawa: Ainokura, Shirakawago ObservatoryBus to Takayama: Sake Brewries, Old Town
Hotel Nagoya
  1. Takayama and then train to Nagoya Station (no idea what to do here, maybe visit some small place on the train line)
  2. Nagatsugawa (Bus to Magome)-Nagiso, (Narai), Matsumoto Castle, Tokyo(sleep)
Back in Tokyo 3 Days
Hotel in Shinjuku
  1. Borderless, Shimo Kitazawa, Shibuya, Shibuya Sky (shopping Day)
Hotel in Asakusa
  1. Akihabara, Ikebukero, Shibuya for food and stuff(Shopping Day)
  2. Daytrip Hakone: Museum, Ropeway, Owakudani, Togendai Ship: Sightseeing, Onsen, back to Shibuya for food
Next day we fly home
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Hope it is readable. Hotels can be cancelled if necessary. Kansai+Chugoku Days can be interchanged since we use the 14 Day Jr Pass.
Choosing two different Hotels in some places is because of cost. We wanted to save some money or else I wouldn't have been doing it that way.
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2022.11.04 23:49 simplepathtowealth Update uitsluitingen NT indices

Poging 2 aangezien de vorige post in de spam folder terecht is gekomen. :)
De index gegevens van de Northern Trust indices zijn geupdate met de stand van zaken op 1 september 2022. Ik heb de wijzigingen van NT indices sinds de laatste update in kaart gebracht.
Edit: ik heb de wijzigingen gefilterd tegen de wijzigingen van de MSCI indices. Daardoor blijven alleen de ESG wijzigingen over.
NT World sluit nu 67 bedrijven uit, dit is 4,2% van de MSCI index kwa marktkapitalisatie.
De ESG wijzigingen voor NT World sinds de laatste update (+ is erbij, - is eruit): Δ: +0,8% marktkapitalisatie
+ SHELL + WELLS FARGO & CO + BAYER + FREEPORT MCMORAN B + WEC ENERGY GROUP + P G & E CORP + EQT + DAIMLER TRUCK HOLDING + ATLANTIA + SWEDISH ORPHAN BIOVITRUM + ZIM INTEGRATED SHIPPING - GLENCORE - AMERICAN ELECTRIC POWER - POWER ASSETS HOLDINGS - UNIVERSAL HEALTH SVCS B - CHUBU ELECTRIC POWER CO
De complete lijst met uitsluitingen:
- PHILIP MORRIS INTL - RAYTHEON TECHNOLOGIES - HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL - BHP GROUP (AU) - LOCKHEED MARTIN CORP - BOEING CO - BRITISH AMERICAN TOBACCO - ALTRIA GROUP - GENERAL ELECTRIC CO - NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORP - AIRBUS - GENERAL DYNAMICS CORP - AMERICAN ELECTRIC POWER - GLENCORE - SUNCOR ENERGY - L3HARRIS TECHNOLOGIES - MSCI - ALIMENTATION COUCHE A - SAFRAN - SEVEN & I HOLDINGS CO - BAE SYSTEMS - BARRICK GOLD CORP - DTE ENERGY - CENOVUS ENERGY - AMEREN CORPORATION - FRANCO-NEVADA CORP - FIRSTENERGY CORP - PPL CORP - JAPAN TOBACCO - CENTERPOINT ENERGY - CMS ENERGY CORP - IMPERIAL BRANDS - AMCOR - TELEDYNE TECHNOLOGIES - AES CORP - EVERGY - JACOBS SOLUTIONS - SWEDISH MATCH - HALEON - TEXTRON - BOOZ ALLEN HAMILTON A - THALES - LEIDOS HOLDINGS - NISOURCE (NEW) - MITSUBISHI HEAVY IND - CELANESE CORP - EASTMAN CHEMICAL CO - IMPERIAL OIL - NRG ENERGY - HUNTINGTON INGALLS IND - MTU AERO ENGINES - JARDINE MATHESON (USD) - POWER ASSETS HOLDINGS - ROLLS-ROYCE GROUP - UNIVERSAL HEALTH SVCS B - MELROSE INDUSTRIES - CHUBU ELECTRIC POWER CO - RHEINMETALL - TOKYO ELECTRIC POWER CO - CAE - ELBIT SYSTEMS - SINGAPORE TECH ENGR - PATTINSON (WASHINGTON) - DASSAULT AVIATION - KONGSBERG GRUPPEN - AMC ENTMT HLDG PREF UNIT - HK ELECTRIC INVESTMENTS
NT EM: 133 uitsluitingen, 6,1% kwa marktkapitalisatie.
ESG wijzigingen Δ: +1,6% marktkapitalisatie
+ PETROBRAS PN + PETROBRAS ON + GRUPO MEXICO B + SOUTHERN COPPER CORP + ACWA POWER COMPANY + POWERCHIP SEMICONDUCTOR + ORIENT OVERSEAS (CN) + SAUDI INVESTMENT BANK + SUMBER ALFARIA TRIJAYA + SAUDI TADAWUL GROUP HLDG + ELM + HYUNDAI HEAVY INDUSTRIES + CPFL ENERGIA ON + CIA SUD AMERICANA + CHONGQING ZHIFEI A(HK-C) + HARMONY GOLD MINING CO + SHANDONG GOLD-MINING H + MR DIY GROUP + VALE INDONESIA + ADARO MINERALS INDONESIA + SHANDONG GOLD A (HK-C) + EVERBRIGHT SEC A (HK-C) + YUNNAN BOTANEE A (HK-C) + NINGBO ORIENT A (HK-C) + SINOMINE RESOURCE A HK-C + HENAN SHENHUO A (HK-C) + LIAONING PORT CO A(HK-C) + ASIA POTASH INTL A(HK-C) + YANGZHOU YANGJIE A(HK-C) + TANGSHAN JIDONG A (HK-C) + BTG HOTELS GRP A (HK-C) + CHINA MEHECO A (HK-C) + MAANSHAN IRON A (HK-C) - CENCOSUD - GS HOLDINGS CORP - HAP SENG CONSOLIDATED - CHINA GREAT SEC A (HK-C)
Uitsluitingen
- VALE ON - BAJAJ FINANCE - SAUDI ARAMCO - LARSEN & TOUBRO - ADANI TRANSMISSION - ITC - CHINA SHENHUA ENERGY H - TATA MOTORS - ASTRA INTERNATIONAL - ULTRATECH CEMENT - BAJAJ FINSERV - NTPC - INDUSTRIES QATAR - KT&G CORP(KOREA TOBACCO) - ABU DHABI COMM BANK - BID CORPORATION - ZIJIN MINING GROUP H - YANKUANG ENERGY GROUP H - TENAGA NASIONAL - BHARAT ELECTRONICS - CHINA YANGTZE A (HK-C) - COAL INDIA - TATA POWER CO - MOBILE TELECOM CO - ADANI POWER - AGILITY - KEPCO KOREA ELECT. POWER - CHINA RESOURCES POWER - AYALA LAND - UNITED TRACTORS - ADARO ENERGY INDONESIA - BAJAJ AUTO - BOUBYAN BANK - YANBU NATL PETROCHEMICAL - KOREA AEROSPACE IND - AYALA CORP - EXXARO RESOURCES - LARSEN AND TOUBRO INFO - SMOORE INTERNATIONAL - CHINA POWER INTL - GUANGDONG INVESTMENT - MINDTREE - GENTING - JINDAL STEEL & POWER - HUANENG POWER INTL H - AKBANK - SHAANXI COAL IND A(HK-C) - CENCOSUD - ATACADAO - CHINA COAL ENERGY H - FALABELLA SACI - INNER MONGOLIA YITAI B - CHINA SHENHUA A (HK-C) - GULF BANK - F&F (NEW) - ABOITIZ EQUITY VENTURES - METROPOLITAN BANK &TRUST - ZTE CORP H - GS HOLDINGS CORP - ZIJIN MINING A (HK-C) - TURKIYE IS BANKASI C - YUNNAN ENER NEW A (HK-C) - AFRICAN RAINBOW MINERALS - JIANGXI COPPER CO H - POLSKA GRUPA ENER - ELECTRICITY GENERATING - RATCH GROUP PUBLIC CO - QINGHAI SALT LAK A(HK-C) - AVICHINA IND & TECH H - ILJIN MATERIALS - PEARLABYSS - YANKUANG ENERGY A (HK-C) - AECC AVIATION A (HK-C) - ACEN CORPORATION - HAP SENG CONSOLIDATED - ASELSAN ELEKTRONIK - CHINA UTD NETWK A (HK-C) - ZTE CORP A (HK-C) - SEEGENE - TEBIAN ELEC APP A (HK-C) - MMG - GUDANG GARAM - IFLYTEK CO A (HK-C) - SDIC POWER HLDGS A(HK-C) - GUANGHUI ENER A (HK-C) - GREEN CROSS CORP - METRO PACIFIC INVESTMENT - GD POWER DEV CO A (HK-C) - RLX TECHNOLOGY ADR - HUANENG POWER A (HK-C) - PYLON TECH A (HK-C) - EASTERN COMPANY - SHANXI COKING A(HK-C) - SHANXI LUAN ENV A (HK-C) - BEIJING NEW BLDG A(HK-C) - SHAN XI HUA YANG A(HK-C) - HUADIAN POWER A (HK-C) - AVIC ELECMECH A (HK-C) - NORTH IND GRP A (HK-C) - HUAIBEI MINING A (HK-C) - INNER MONGOL JUN A(HK-C) - XIAMEN TUNGSTEN A (HK-C) - JIANGXI COPPER A (HK-C) - PINGDINGSHAN TI A (HK-C) - TONGLING NONFER A (HK-C) - CHINA GREAT SEC A (HK-C) - SHENZHEN ENERGY A (HK-C) - INNER MONGOLIA D A(HK-C) - AVIC HELICOPTER A (HK-C) - JIZHONG ENER RES A(HK-C) - INNER MONGOL ER A (HK-C) - ZHEJIANG ORIENTG A(HK-C) - AYALA CORP (DETACHED)
NT SC: 1122 uitsluitingen, 19,7% kwa marktkapitalisatie.
ESG wijzigingen Δ: -0,1% marktkapitalisatie
- ACADEMY SPORTS & OUTDOOR
Uitsluitingen
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2022.09.15 07:00 okjeohu92 Identifying the ulterior motives and debating with anti Korean trolls both online and offline that want to undermine Korean geopolitical, historical and socio-cultural identity

If I were to summarise what's at stake here concisely is that this is what the Chinese and Japanese collectively claim:
  1. Northern Korea (Pyongan, Hwanghae, Hamgyong and Kangwon provinces) were historically a part of "China's realm" from (c. 1122 B.C.E. to 1450 C.E.) until the Joseon dynasty consolidated rule over these regions during Sejong the Great's reign.
  2. Southern Korea (Gyeonggi, Chungcheong, Jeolla and Gyeongsang provinces) were historically a part of "Japan's realm") from prehistorical times and once again directly ruled from Japan between 369 C.E. - 532 C.E. Goguryeo, Baekje, Silla, Gaya, Tamra, Balhae, Goryeo and Joseon were also vassal states of "Japan" besides "China" until the annexation of Joseon by Japan in 1910 C.E.
Firstly, it's quite easy to refute this because in the case of China none of its imperial dynasties prior to 1912 referred to themselves as "China" between 221 B.C.E. (Qin) to 1911 C.E. (Qing).
Secondly, China in its contemporary state only reached proper unity for the first time in 1949 C.E. after the Chinese Civil War. Prior to that in the 1910s to 1930s 30 or more feuding warlords were chaotically competing with themselves to consolidate supremacy. It was only with the advent of the Sino Japanese War in the 1930s to 1940s that they were steadily unifying albeit in a dysfunctional manner.
Thirdly, the concept of a Han or a Chinese identity in the national psyche is largely a 20th century C.E. invented tradition based on Japanese interpretations of British concepts of racial identity from the 19th century C.E. largely grounded upon social darwinism by Chinese intellectuals. Bill Hayton a former journalist who is in the process of becoming a sinological expert from the United Kingdom has released a book on this in November of 2020.
Fourthly, Gija Joseon is a historical anachronism cooked up by the Western Han Confucian Scholar Fu Sheng who incorporated the pseudohistorical narrative that Gija became the King of Joseon in the 12th century B.C.E. when earlier records such as the Shang Shu only attribute him to being the one that introduced the Hongfan law code to King Wu of Zhou in the 11th century B.C.E.
Fifthly, Man Beonhan (Wiman Joseon) was a shortlived state that was entrenched to the east of Jieshi mountain and north of the Bohai Sea between the Luan River and Daling River in Eastern Hebei and Western Liaoning.
It was located outside of Manchuria proper and Korea proper which housed numerous polities such as Jinguk to Wiman Joseon's east, North Buyeo to Wiman Joseon's northeast as well as Nakrang Kingdom and Mahan confederacy to Wiman Joseon's southeast across the sea.
When Han Wudi eventually subjugated Wiman Joseon after a long series of campaigns in 108 B.C.E. two to three commanderies (Lelang and Xuantu being the main ones as well as Daifang created from the southern part of Lelang) were established and exchanged hands between many different political powers before being subjugated by Goguryeo in the 5th century C.E. permanently until Balhae took over this in the 7th century C.E. and successively since the 10th century C.E. by Liao (Khitans), Jin (Jurchens), Yuan (Mongols), Ming (Semu) and Qing (Manchus). It was only after 1949 that these lands were more fully integrated into the Chinese realm by a federal body run by the People's Republic of China in 1949.
It is also worthwhile to point out that Central-Southern Manchuria and Korea was by directly ruled by Silla, Goryeo and Joseon from 668 C.E. to 1637 C.E. until the second series of Jurchen invasions led by Dorgon of the Later Jin essentially forced Joseon to cede most of the Liaodong peninsula to the Qing and the remaining Joseon territories in Southern Jilin and Heilongjiang were vacated to create a no man's land (buffer zone) between the Joseon and Qing. This was eventually recovered for a brief time in the 1880s after Joseon established diplomatic ties with the western imperialist powers and even received military support via arms and hardware to briefly recover territories to the south of Shenyang (Liaohe River) as well as to the south of the Songhua River near Harbin. Joseon retained these lands until the Gando convention treaty in 1909 C.E. when Japan obtained railway rights in Manchuria in exchange for handing over Joseon lands to the Qing dynasty. However, after the normalization of Japanese Korean relations in 1965 C.E. it was agreed that the treaty signed in 1909 C.E. is null and void. So this allows Korea to have legal means to recover these territories that were ceded to the Qing dynasty that no longer exists. Moreover, the People's Republic of China in international law and relations does not claim to be a successor of the Qing dynasty formally as it would otherwise have to pay its overdue loans to the American, Austro-Hungarian, British, French, German-Prussian, Italian, Japanese and Russian empires which is in the trillions. Therefore, there is eventually a possibility to recover these lands that were once unfairly ceded to the Qing.
With Japan, there was no concept of a unified Japanese identity or nation until after the Meiji Restoration in 1868. Prior to this modernization phase, Japan was divided into hundreds of different prefectures called Kuni that functioned as more or less their micro-state in a confederation. Additionally, historically Japan was restricted to the three major islands of Honshu, Kyushu and Shikoku until the late 19th century C.E. It was only with the threat of the western imperialist powers particularly Russia that Hokkaido, Karafuto (Sakhalin), Kuril islands, Ryukyu islands and Tsushima (Daemado) were integrated into the realm of what we call Japan today.
During the Pre Jomon Period, Jomon Period, Yayoi Period, Kofun Period, Asuka Period, Nara Period, Heian Period, Kamakura Period, Ashikaga Period, Azuchi Momoyama Period and Edo Period the entirety of the Japanese archipelago was never ruled in its entire landmass by a singular political entity prior to the Meiji Period. Therefore, it's very problematic to firstly claim that Southern Korea was "Japanese" to begin with whatever that may mean.
Additionally, even the great unifying leaders like Oda Nobunaga, Toyotomi Hideyoshi and Tokugawa Ieyasu of the Azuchi Momoyama Period (Sengoku Period) were only able to carry out a loose unification with greater autonomy still maintained by the major warlords. During the Imjin Waeran and Jeongyu Jaeran Toyotomi Hideyoshi had the command of the western Japanese factions in Chugoku (western Honshu), Kinai (central Honshu), Kyushu and Shikoku regions whilst Tokugawa Ieyasu had the control over the eastern Japanese factions in Chubu (central eastern Honshu), Kanto (eastern Honshu) and Tohoku (northeast Honshu) regions respectively. It was Hideyoshi's forces that fought in the Imjin War and Jeongyu War whilst Ieyasu's forces largely stayed out of the war that enabled them to defeat Hideyoshi's faction in the Battle of Sekigahara much like how Aisin Gioro Nurhachi was able to establish the Qing after the Ming was worn down like the Joseon at the end of the war.
Anyhow, with regards to Imna (Mimana) also known as Imna Ilbonbu (Mimana Nihonfu) there are several problems with Japanese claims.
Firstly, Nihon or Nippon was a national appellation used by Japan at the very earliest in 670 C.E. according to the Samguk Sagi and Old or New History of Tang texts and in 701 C.E. after the implementation of the Taiho code according to the Shoku Nihongi, another Japanese text covering the time after 697 C.E.. It was certainly not used before the 7th century C.E. which renders the whole concept of Mimana Nihonfu (Ilbon Ilbonbu) a historical anachronism.
Secondly, Imna which is first mentioned in the chapter on Sujin Tenno the 10th traditional ruler of the Yamato is said to be located to the southwest of Gyerim (Gyeongju, the capital of Silla), located 2000 li away from Tsukushi (Kyushu) and to the north of Imna is the sea.
Therefore, the most viable location of this place is Tsushima (Daemado) that is located to the southwest of Gyeongju and located 2000 li from Kyushu if you sail on a ship south of Gyeongju. Furthermore, the Korea Strait borders Daemado directly to its north which puts the final nail in the coffin.
This means that Imna (Mimana) cannot be Gaya which Japanese scholars and Korean ones conflate together and designate Gyeongsang province or Gyeongsang, Jeolla and Chungcheong province as the realm.
This is advocated by scholars such as Tsuda Sokichi or Suematsu Yasukazu respectively even when there is no inland sea in any of Korea's 8 major provinces because they want to find an excuse to justify their historical direct colonization and rule of Korea since premodern times.
Thirdly, Imna also appears to exist in the Nihon Shoki in the 7th century C.E. and 8th century C.E. after it is said that Silla conquered this completely in 562 C.E. which means that clearly Imna is not referring to the Gaya confederacy but frontier community of settlements in western Japan populated by Goguryeo, Baekje, Silla and Gaya immigrants that various scholars from Korea (Kim Sok Hyung, Cho Heui Seung, Mun Cheong Jang and Choi Jaeseok as well as a few others) have designated as either Tsushima (Daemado), Kyushu (Tsukushi) or Okayama (Kibi) based on the archaeological record to date.
Fourthly, it is well known that Man Joseon, Jinguk, Mahan, Buyeo, Goguryeo, Baekje, Silla, Gaya, Tamra and Balhae immigrants established their own communities around the three historically major islands of the Japanese archipelago (Kyushu, Honshu and Shikoku). Therefore, the records talking about the Baekje, Gaya, Goguryeo and Silla peoples in the Nihon Shoki refers to these expatriates.
Fifthly, another piece of evidence that the Japanese bring up to conflate Gaya with Imna is the account on Kang Su who is described as a man of Imna Karyang. However, they conveniently leave out the fact that he was born in modern day Chungju, North Chungcheong province and also based on the Jokbo of the Wolseong Seok clan it is known that Kang Su's surname is not "New Kim" (Shin Kim) but "Seok" based on a new publication by PhD candidate Lee Wan Young at Inha University Gojoseon Research institute in June of 2022. Gaya specialists like Kim Taesik of Hongik University and Lee Young Shik of Inje University have not been able to refute this to date and continue the outdated mantra that Kang Su's surname was Kim (Geumgwan Gaya royal surname).
Sixthly, the Gwanggaeto stele that mentions the Imna Kara soldiers being routed by Gwanggaeto the Great's troops to Jongbal Fortress is used as evidence that the Yamato dispatched its soldiers to fight Goguryeo. However, the problem is that Japan was home to over hundreds of small city states fighting with each other that included the Yamato polity. Moreover, they often relied on Baekje, Gaya and Silla naval vessels to ferry them across to interact with the Southern Dynasties such as Liu Song, Southern Qi, Liang and Chen as well as the Sui and Tang even as late as the 9th century C.E. Therefore, it's almost unlikely that a small city state thousands of kilometres away from the Korean peninsula could have mustered a sizeable well armed and trained force to subjugate Goguryeo, Baekje, Silla and Gaya as their pseudohistorical records claim. Moreover, Yamato and the Wa political entities could not independently extract and manufacture their own iron from iron ore or iron sand until the 6th century C.E. cross-validated by the Samguk Sagi Baekje Annals and Liang Shu. Therefore, the Wa soldiers that appear in the Gwanggaeto Stele refer to a Wa political entity in western Japan (Tsushima, Kyushu or Chugoku) as there are records of Gwanggaeto the Great dispatching not only 50,000 cavalry to assist Silla but a fleet of warships to pursue after the Wa troops across the sea to Jongbal Fortress. There's even records that Jon Carter Covell, an American specialist of Japanese art history managed to dig up of epitaphs that the Joseon Tongshinsa passed in western Japan along the way to Tokyo that marked the place where Gwanggaeto the Great's forces pursued the Wa troops in Tsushima, Kyushu and Chugoku respectively.
Seventhly, prior to the 29th ruler of the Japanese royal household Kinmei (r. 539 C.E. - 571 C.E.) the lifespans and the duration of the Japanese "emperors" are 100 to 120 years and 80 to 100 years on average respectively, which is not credible at all given how it cannot be cross-validated. According to the Samguk Sagi, Taejo the Great of Goguryeo is said to have lived for 118 years (47 C.E. - 165 C.E.) and ruled for 93 years (r. 53 C.E. - 146 C.E.) but cross referencing with the Book of Later Han it demonstrates that he reigned for 68 years (r. 53 C.E. - 121 C.E.) which enabled the validate that he was indeed a real historical figure unlike the majority of the pre Kinmei monarchs or pre Tenji monarchs of Japan depending on how critical and sceptical you are. Additionally, Tenji, who is the 38th ruler of the Japanese royal household that ascended to his position as Tenno in 661 C.E. is the first to be historically attested and subsequent succession lineage to be verified in both Chinese and Korean sources outside of Japanese texts. Even the Five Kings of Wa that appear in the Southern Histories of China (Book of Song, Book of Southern Qi, Book of Liang, Book of Chen) along with the Book of Sui do not correspond with any of the Japanese monarchs that appear in either the Kojiki and Nihon Shoki suggesting that these Wa Kings are not of the Yamato lineage. That's why the Nihon Shoki records which is the only Japanese text that mentions Mimana Nihonfu unlike the Kojiki, which was compiled 8 years earlier than the former shows that it was largely a politically motivated pseudohistorical forgery.
This unfortunately and ultimately renders Japanese irredentist and revisionist based on invented tradition of an imagined pseudohistorical dominance over premodern Korea and the Koreans, to amount to nothing more than mere delusions of grandeur to provide a justifiable basis for fulfilling and satiating a lust for imperialist ambition.
Educational References:
중국인과 역사논쟁 대응법
https://youtube.com/watch?v=qTozRfOMMKA&feature=share&si=EMSIkaIECMiOmarE6JChQQ
Anne Birrell (2009) From Myth to Pseudohistory Deconstructing a Text from the First History of Ancient China
https://books.openedition.org/pum/19054?lang=en
Further Reading:
Any of you can also show any Chinese, Japanese and anti Korean Japanophile Sinophile trolls these ten nicely summarised posts and use arguments from them that I composed with the specific aim of refuting all their nonsense and rubbish that they disseminate online on Quora, Reddit and Wikipedia:
The inconvenient pseudohistorical reality of Gija Joseon popular not known by many Sinocentric historical revisionists
https://www.reddit.com/Hangukin/comments/xabssi/the_inconvenient_pseudohistorical_reality_of_gija/
Correcting Chinese and Sinophone online and offline claims and rumors about alleged Korean claims to the Dongyi lineage, Shang dynasty and Confucius
https://www.reddit.com/Hangukin/comments/xad2ab/correcting_chinese_and_sinophone_online_and/
Understanding the true historical geography and location of Gojoseon (Man Beonhan or Wiman Joseon) & the Han Commanderies based on original extant Chinese primary historical sources
https://www.reddit.com/Hangukin/comments/xdvyog/understanding_the_true_historical_geography_and/
Common revisionist pseudohistorical views held by Japanese and its neighbours of premodern Korea
https://www.reddit.com/Hangukin/comments/xbz2jn/common_revisionist_pseudohistorical_views_held_by/
Kazuo Miyamoto (2016): The Urheimat (homeland) of the proto Korean and proto Japonic languages is in Liaoxi (Western Liaoning province) to the north of the Balhae (Bohai) Sea
https://www.reddit.com/Hangukin/comments/xc8qyv/kazuo_miyamoto_2016_the_urheimat_homeland_of_the/
Examination of both the correct and incorrect lineages of succession in Premodern Korean Historiography
https://www.reddit.com/Hangukin/comments/xc0br3/examination_of_both_the_correct_and_incorrect/
All major royal clans over the past 2,000 years of Korean history still exist in contemporary Korea!
https://www.reddit.com/Hangukin/comments/xae96i/all_major_royal_clans_over_the_past_2000_years_of/
Inha University Gojoseon Research Institute (Professor Bok Gi Dae and Dr Gil Yi Sook): Goguryeo shifted its main capital city a total of 8 times between 37 B.C.E. to 668 C.E.
https://www.reddit.com/Hangukin/comments/xc9s9l/inha_university_gojoseon_research_institute/
Soonchunhyang University Korean Studies Department (Professor Yi Deok Il and Dr Jeon Jun Ho): The location and territory of Balhae (Great Jin/Later Goguryeo) at its zenith (668 C.E. - 926 C.E.)
https://www.reddit.com/Hangukin/comments/xc9sasoonchunhyang_university_korean_studies/
Inha University Gojoseon Research Institute (Professor Bok Gi Dae and Dr Yoon Han Taek: The location of Goryeo's three capitals prior to and following the Mongol invasions in the 14th century C.E.
https://www.reddit.com/Hangukin/comments/xc9sbm/inha_university_gojoseon_research_institute/
Bonus:
The easiest way to refute their claims about Man Joseon, Jinguk, Mahan, Buyeo, Goguryeo, Baekje, Silla, Gaya, Tamra, Malgal, Balhae, Goryeo and Joseon not being related whatsoever to Korean history and to trigger them at the same time is quite simple:
  1. Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors and Xia Dynasty - Pseudohistorical forgery derived from myth and religion - Qiang & Beidi
  2. Shang - Dongyi
  3. Zhou - Xirong
  4. Qin - Quanrong
  5. Han - Nanman (Manyi)
  6. Xin - Beidi (Xiongnu)
  7. Jin - Xirong
  8. Northern Dynasties - Xianbei
  9. Southern Dynasties - Nanman
  10. Sui - Taqbach Xianbei
  11. Tang - Taqbach Xianbei
  12. Nanzhao - Yi
  13. Song - Shatuo (Turk)
  14. Liao - Khitan
  15. Jin - Jurchen
  16. Xixia - Tangut
  17. Dali - Bai
  18. Yuan - Mongol
  19. Ming - Semu
  20. Qing - Manchu
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2022.08.01 06:45 amyranthlovely Japan Travel, COVID-19, And You: Tourism Information & News Update Thread - August 2022

August 2022 - Japan will begin allowing tourists through pre-booked, but unguided tours as early as September 7th, 2022. The unguided tours will still need to be arranged by a tour agency for tracking and tracking purposes, more information is expected before September 7th.

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Frequently Asked Questions on Tourism Entry - August 2022

What is the information on the unguided tours? How do I book one? What do they entail?
  • This information is very new, and no exact specifications have been made just yet. As information begins being made available, we will add it here. Please be patient with tour agencies if you are contacting them to inquire into this possibility - September 7th isn't here quite yet, and the requirements for booking an unguided tour may not be sorted out within the next 12-24 hour period.
"What is this eVISA I'm hearing about? Does this mean the borders are reopening?"
  • The eVISA System announced by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Japan is intended to make it easier for folks in the USA and Canada who are going to be entering the country for approved reasons to complete the process online, without having to go to the Embassy or the Consulate in their area. Those who are staying in Japan for business, various exchanges, visiting relatives, or tourism for 90 days or less and are not engaged in remunerative activities qualify to use the Online Application System in the link above in order to file/obtain their documents. At this time, this is not expected to apply to tourism entry, and no official word has been given on whether or not this will extend to other types of Visa entry in the future.
"Where do I book a tour package within current re-opening standards?"
  • Please check with the Japan National Tourism Organization to locate agencies in your area that may offer tours eligible for entry. Availability will differ from country to country, and even within the same city - there is also no guarantee that all tour agencies will have tours available at this time. Japan-Guide.com also has a listing of some of the online tour companies that are offering tour packages as well. We've also enlisted the assistance of one of our users, who works for a company currently booking package tours for entrants on vacation, to answer some questions that we are seeing from others in this sub. Please check out the Q & A here for more information. We've also had a first-hand trip report posted from one of our users, Captain_Trina that provides more insight on the process, and their feelings on the experience.
"Can we go exploring solo before, during, or after a pre-booked tour?"
  • No. The very nature of these tours is to keep those on it within a travel bubble. You will be picked up from the airport as a group, taken to your hotels and dining locations as a group, and to the actual attractions as a group. You are then guided back to the airport at the end of the tour, and must cross Immigration for your flight before your guides pick up the next group and move on. There is no 'break-away time', no 'solo exploration', no 'stopping to visit other locations not on the plan', nothing. If you are not interested in heading out on a fully guided tour at this time, please stay home.
"Can I get a visa for tourism activities without a tour group, like a pre-booked cruise?
  • It's not expected to be an option at this time. Visas must be applied for, and are only awarded to, specific tours and tour agencies, so previously booked excursions by a non-approved individual or agency is unlikely to get a separate visa awarded at this time. If you need to make adjustments to your vacation package, please contact the company you booked with for more information.
"Should I buy tickets for tourism entry later in 2022?"
  • There is no indication on when the borders will fully reopen to individual tourism. We advise to avoid booking non-refundable tickets from any airline or third-party supplier until the formal announcement has been made regarding the full opening of borders to tourism.
"Why are tickets to Japan so expensive right now?"
  • This article covers all the details, but the short form answers are: Smaller planes than usual are flying - so less seats are available and the ones that are get quickly gobbled up by those who have been waiting for a few years to travel. Another wrinkle is there are less staff to operate the flights that are existing and thus less routes are flying, as well as the larger planes still being parked as they are not seen as being cost-effective to load. Finally, fuel prices have taken a major jump and that surcharge is being passed down to ticketholders. This all adds up to higher priced tickets for everyone flying anywhere, and Japan specifically as the push to increase tourism from a few years ago meant cheaper flights to get more folks in seats. It's safe to expect this to continue for awhile yet, as Japan slowly reopens.
"What if the borders don't open in time for my previously booked flight?"
  • If you have already booked a flight (current border opening guidelines apply to pre-booked tour groups only), we advise you to carefully look over the refund/rebooking policy with the airline you purchased your tickets with. If you have booked tickets that are non-refundable or cannot be moved, please contact your airline for further questions or concerns.
"What are the current quarantine and vaccination requirements for entry to Japan?"

Frequently Asked Questions on Non-Tourism Entry - August 2022

"I am arriving in Japan for a stopovelayover while on the way to another country, what do I do?"
  • No entry to Japan is permitted on stopovers, overnights, or for transit between airports - and at this time there is no indication whether this restriction will be lifted any time soon. -Haneda Airport allows overnight stopovers, but you will likely need to stay at your gate as there is no hotel airside open, and few shops and services are available. -Narita Airport will NOT allow overnight stays at all & you will need to change your ticket if your flight involves an "overnight" stop, as you cannot stay in the airport after it closes. Further questions or concerns should be directed to your airline only.
Do I need a PCR Test to enter Japan if I am NOT leaving the airport?
  • No. A PCR test is only required if you are entering Japan on a Visa, as outlined above. If you have further questions, please speak to your airline, or review their entry requirements for your trip.
"I need more information on special entry as a partner, family member, or Spouse, where should I post?"
  • Contact the Embassy of Japan in your country to find out more on the requirements for entry, and to learn if your situation qualifies.
"I need more information on the border opening as a New Entrant for work or school, where should I post?"

Daily Cases, Deaths & Vaccinations - Updated: 08/31

Monthly News Updates - August 2022

08/30 - From The Japan Times - Japan to ease tourism restrictions and raise daily arrival cap to 50,000. Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said Wednesday that Japan will allow non-escorted visitors on package tours and raise the daily arrival cap to 50,000 starting Sept. 7 — a significant step toward putting the country’s border restrictions on par with other major economies. Japan has been allowing foreign tourists into the country since June, but only on guided tours. The new rules mean that tourists on nonguided package tours can visit the country. It was not immediately clear what criteria will be used to determine what constitutes a package tour. The latest announcement will be welcome news for the country’s battered tourism industry, as the stricter, guided tours have proven to be unpopular with foreign tourists. Last week, Kishida said Japan will drop pre-arrival PCR tests from Sept. 7 if passengers have received three shots of an approved vaccine.
08/30 - From NHK News - Govt. to decide when to introduce nationwide revision of coronavirus case count. The Japanese government said last week that it will let prefectures decide whether to continue to include reports about all the cases or to limit the reports to specific groups, such as the elderly and others who are at risk of becoming seriously ill. But, as of the deadline on Monday, only four prefectures out of the 47 had applied to limit the types of cases they register in the system. On Tuesday, health minister Kato Katsunobu told reporters that circumstances vary with each prefecture, and that some are still thinking about whether they should apply. He said the four prefectures that applied by the deadline -- Miyagi, Ibaraki, Tottori and Saga -- will be allowed to revise their reporting procedures starting on Friday.
08/25 - From The Asahi Shimbun - COVID-19 cases resurging to record highs after Bon holiday. Panel members said they believe the latest surge reflects the spread of the novel coronavirus during the summer holidays and Bon holiday period when many people traveled. “A drop in infection cases is unlikely anytime soon because of the reopening of schools (next week) and other factors,” a panel member said. The number of COVID-19-related deaths has also jumped to record levels. According to calculations by The Asahi Shimbun, the average daily number of deaths across the country over the week to Aug. 23 increased to 276, the highest death toll so far in the pandemic
08/24 - From Kyodo News - Japan not to require pre-entry test for triple-vaccinated travelers. Japan will no longer require incoming travelers to show a pre-departure negative COVID-19 test result starting on Sept. 7, provided they have been vaccinated three times, Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said Wednesday. The government will soon decide whether to raise the daily entry cap on travelers, currently set at 20,000, Kishida said, as Japan aims to further relax its coronavirus border control steps, often criticized for being too stringent, in line with other Group of Seven major economies.
08/23 - From Kyodo News - Japan to ease daily COVID reporting to reduce hospital admin burden. Medical facilities are currently required by law to report COVID-19 cases to the government by entering the data into a system shared with public health centers. But with the prevalent Omicron variant having less risk of causing severe illness compared with previous strains, some government officials have questioned the need to log every case. Moving forward, infection trends will be monitored by reporting only those hospitalized or at high risk, with doctors no longer required to log patients who are young and at low risk of developing severe symptoms. The health ministry is also considering establishing fixed-point monitoring by collecting data from designated medical institutions, but the system is expected to take some time to come into operation.
08/23 - From Kyodo News - Japan to ease COVID entry requirements, raise cap on entrants. The government is also set to open Japan to more foreign tourists by allowing unguided tours -- ones not accompanied by tour conductors -- after the country on June 10 started processing applications for accepting foreign visitors on guided package tours from 98 countries and regions deemed low-risk for coronavirus transmission. The countries include the United States, Britain, China, South Korea, Indonesia and Thailand. Prime Minister Fumio Kishida is expected to announce further easing in entry requirements and a higher cap on entrants Wednesday. While Japan has slowly lifted its cap on entry numbers, most recently doubling it to 20,000 on June 1, the government seeks to raise it further, possibly to 50,000, the source said.
08/22 - From The Japan Times - With COVID-19 cases still high, Japan debates how best to monitor them. Haruo Ozaki, chairman of the Tokyo Medical Association, which consists mostly of independent private practitioners, said last week that, with infection levels so high, Japan is no longer tracking all cases, despite the HER-SYS requirement. “(The system) has already collapsed,” Ozaki said during a news conference on Tuesday. “Should we not consider moving to one where only certain medical institutions keep monitoring cases on a regular basis?” He added that attention should shift to the treatment of people age 60 and over as well as those with pre-existing conditions, so they can get diagnosed and receive adequate care at an early stage before they develop severe symptoms. Local governments have also recently stepped up pressure over the issue, with Tottori Gov. Shinji Hirai being the most vocal critic of the current COVID-19 reporting protocol. “To be honest, especially in the big cities, the so-called ceiling effect has emerged,” Hirai, concurrently head of the national prefectural governors association, said Thursday, noting that the daily tally is influenced by how many tests can be performed daily. “We are in a laughable situation where experts repeat simulations on future trends based on such (inaccurate) data. Questions are swirling on the front lines of medical care as to what we are taking the data for.”
08/22 - From The Nikkei Asia - Japan weighs ending pre-arrival COVID test requirement. Japan's government is considering ending the pre-arrival COVID-19 testing requirement for inbound travelers who are vaccinated, Nikkei has learned. The current border controls require travelers to show proof of a negative test result from within 72 hours of departure. As some countries curtail their testing capabilities, obtaining the necessary documents has become more difficult. A decision will be made soon, taking the country's case count into consideration. The easing is likely to take effect within a few weeks.
08/21 - From The Mainichi - Kyoto gets ready to welcome back foreign visitors while addressing 'overtourism'. In November 2020, the municipal government and Kyoto City Tourism Association created a "Code of Conduct for Sustainable Tourism in Kyoto" that called for tourism businesses to respect residents' daily lives and urged them to spread the community's rules and manners among visitors. In this way, Kyoto as a whole has been tackling the challenge of promoting tourism in the area while taking heed to prevent tourist-related problems, ahead of a full-fledged return of inbound guests.
08/21 - From NHK News - PM Kishida infected with coronavirus. The positive result was confirmed on Sunday afternoon. Kishida is currently recuperating at his official residence. Government officials say Kishida has only been in close contact with his wife Yuko and other family members. The infection route remains unknown. Kishida has been on summer vacation for the past week and was due to return to work on Monday, but is considering working online. Kishida will cancel his trip to Tunisia for the Tokyo International Conference on African Development, or TICAD, later this month. He may attend the meeting online.
08/20 - From The Asahi Shimbun - Ministry mulls doing away with reports on all COVID-19 cases.Health ministry officials are now considering having only designated medical institutions submit reports on COVID-19 cases. The same procedure is used for dealing with seasonal flu. Because it will take time to decide how to designate medical institutions, health ministry officials concede that any change in reporting policy would likely only occur after the current wave of infections is brought under control. Another alternative would be to only require reports for senior citizens or those with pre-existing medical conditions, given that they fall into the category of being at greater risk of developing serious symptoms. But that would mean others who do not have to report their infections would be deprived of the opportunity to contact their local public health office in the event their condition suddenly worsened while they were recuperating at home.
08/20 - From The Japan Times - Japan vows speedy review of counting all COVID-19 cases. Counting all COVID-19 cases has been a burden for hospitals and public health centers, which are overwhelmed amid a seventh wave of infections. Japan on Friday posted more than 260,000 daily infections — setting a new record high for a second straight day. Of the country’s 47 prefectures, 19 reported record-high daily infections totals. The government is considering options, including having only specific hospitals report new cases so that trends can be observed at fixed points. “We’ll consider how to alleviate burdens on front-line workers from various viewpoints,” Kato said. He also pointed to a need to keep close tabs on how the infection situation develops in the coming days and weeks, citing the expected waning of protection from vaccinations and a possible spike in new cases after the Bon summer holiday period.
08/19 - From Kyodo News - Japan posts fresh record of over 260,000 daily COVID-19 cases. Of Friday's cases, 27,676 were in Tokyo, 22,798 in Osaka, 17,716 in Aichi and 15,726 in Fukuoka. The daily death toll totaled 294, with the seven-day rolling average hitting a record of over 250, surpassing levels logged during the sixth wave of infections, according to the health ministry. The number of patients with severe symptoms came to 627, up 17 from Thursday, the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare said.
08/19 - From The Asahi Shimbun - Infections drop, but COVID-19 deaths on pace to hit record. On Aug. 18, 287 fatalities were reported in Japan, surpassing 200 deaths for the fourth straight day. It was third most COVID-19 deaths for one day in Japan. Panel leader Takaji Wakita, head of the National Institute of Infectious Diseases, said there have been no signs of improvement in the strained health care system, including general medical treatment. “The number of deaths tends to surge later than the increase of new cases, so there are concerns that the death figure will exceed the record,” he said. The occupancy rate of hospital beds remains high, topping 50 percent in 41 prefectures as of Aug. 17, according to the Cabinet Secretariat. The occupancy rate of hospital beds set aside for severely ill COVID-19 patients was in the single digits in 19 prefectures. But these beds were filling up in some prefectures, including rates of 64 percent in Tokyo and 50 percent in Osaka Prefecture.
08/19 - From The Japan Times - Tokyo’s travel promotion campaign to resume on Sept. 1. The campaign will cover trips within Tokyo from Sept. 1 through Oct. 1. The subsidy will be ¥5,000 per person per night for an overnight trip that costs ¥6,000 or more per night, for up to five nights, and ¥2,500 per person for a day trip that costs ¥3,000 or more. Reservations should be made through registered travel agents or hotels. Participants need to produce ID with their Tokyo address and show proof they have either received three shots of a COVID-19 vaccine or tested negative for the coronavirus through a PCR or antigen test.
08/18 - From The Asahi Shimbun - Foreign tourists shun Japan over COVID-19 rules, rising infections. Industry sources said travelers are put off by Japan’s remaining entry rules concerning PCR tests and chaperoned travel packages. Others noted that the COVID-19 pandemic has not gone away. “Japan still imposes tough restrictions,” said an official of TAS Co., a Tokyo-based company that specializes in inbound trips. “It is lagging behind other countries in letting in tourists despite its claim to be a tourism powerhouse.” Fewer than 8,000 international tourists visited Japan last month after the government lifted the ban on sightseers from abroad in June.
08/18 - From Kyodo News - Japan logs record daily 255,000 COVID-19 cases. Fueled by the highly transmissible Omicron BA.5 subvariant, the tally eclipsed the previous record of 250,403 cases logged on Aug. 10. The number is expected to increase further as more people chose to travel to see their families during Japan's Bon summer holidays without any behavioral restrictions. The record figure came even as the nationwide tally for the week through Wednesday decreased to about 87 percent of the figure for the previous seven days.
08/16 - From The Nikkei Asia - Japan poised to stop fully tracking COVID cases. Currently, doctors are required to report all coronavirus cases they handle to local health departments. As a result, hospitals that receive a large number of patients are forced to devote more resources to this duty than to actual treatment. Health departments, on the other hand, have been consumed with handling reports sent from doctors and have not been able to focus on older patients, who are more likely to develop serious symptoms. If Japan stops comprehensively tracking infections, however, it will need to come up with a different mechanism to grasp the extent of its cases. Designated medical facilities have been flooded with suspected COVID-19 patients during the current wave. Reducing paperwork at hospitals will not solve this, critics point out. Japan will need to further reassess the current treatment system, such as through allowing patients to be seen at all hospitals.
08/13 - From The Nikkei Asia - Japan's tight COVID rules stand out as virus risk ebbs. The reluctance to significantly loosen COVID-related restrictions stems in part from a health care system that puts a heavy burden on the limited number of designated facilities for coronavirus patients, leaving some areas at constant risk of a shortage of beds. Infectious disease experts last week urged the government to allow more hospitals to deal with suspected cases. "We've gone beyond our limits in admitting patients," said the vice president of a hospital in the Chubu region around Nagoya that handles coronavirus cases. "Having more medical institutions involved, including through telemedicine, would lighten the load more." COVID-19 poses more of a threat to elderly Japanese and other at-risk segments of the population. The rate of severe illness among COVID-19 patients aged 60 and older was 2.49% in mid-July, and the fatality rate was 1.99% -- three to four times as high as seasonal flu.
08/12 - From The Japan Times - What we know about the new COVID-19 vaccines. New vaccines for the COVID-19 omicron BA.1 subvariant are scheduled to be available from mid-October in Japan after a health ministry panel gave the plan a preliminary green light, raising hopes that the population will soon be better protected against the highly infectious omicron variant.
08/11 - From NHK News - Japan has world's highest number of new COVID cases for 3rd straight week. Globally, 6,980,516 new infections were confirmed during the week from August 1 to 7, up 3 percent from the previous week. Japan reported 1,496,968 cases, up 9 percent from the previous week. Japan's weekly figure accounted for about 20 percent of the global total. The country's weekly death toll during the same period was 1,002, up 53 percent from the previous week. The figure was the fourth-highest in the world, after the United States, Brazil, and Italy.
08/11 - From Kyodo News - Japan's summer holidays in full swing with lack of COVID restrictions. While more people headed abroad for their break, numbers are nevertheless far below the pre-COVID-19 era as new cases across the country remain elevated, hitting record highs in recent weeks.
08/10 - From NHK News - Japan's daily coronavirus cases hit record high of 250,403. The health ministry says the number of seriously ill patients on ventilators or in intensive care units totaled 597, up 16 from Tuesday. The figure is much less than last summer's peak, when serious cases surpassed 2,000 for weeks
08/08 - From The Japan Times - What it would mean for Japan to downgrade its COVID classification. If it is revised to the Class V level, general hospitals and clinics could treat patients, meaning more medical facilities would be available to accept those infected. Only a portion of the hospitals and clinics would need to report cases, easing the burden on medical staff. Public health centers wouldn’t be required to trace close contacts. But the downside would be that patients would need to shoulder some of the cost under the national health insurance system, with the contribution usually coming to 30% of the total. Experts are concerned that this could lead people to refrain from seeking treatment even when it’s necessary. If people are hospitalized, medical bills can be costly. Therefore, medical experts are recommending that the government be flexible and keep care free of charge, or shoulder the cost if a patient is hospitalized or needs expensive treatment. Additionally, the government would no longer be able to grasp the entire number of patients, issue a state of emergency to restrict people’s activities, or have public health centers check up on patients at home.
08/08 - From The Mainichi - Suspected COVID patients face high hurdles to getting tested in urban Japan According to an official of the metropolitan government's Bureau of Social Welfare and Public Health, the some 67,000-test gap between the daily suspected case testing target and the July 29 three-day testing average can be attributed to patients jamming specific departments at hospitals. Patients with a fever tend to visit internal medicine or pediatrics departments. While other departments like ear, nose and throat, dermatology or orthopedics have also set up fever outpatient services at some medical institutions, it is likely that patients are unaware of this. While medical institutions in densely populated urban areas are fully booked, there are slots available in sparsely populated districts. Of the roughly 15,000 medical institutions in Tokyo, one-third, or around 4,600, are open to coronavirus patients. Of these, nearly half only accept their regular patients.
08/08 - From NHK News - Japan to provide Omicron vaccines to public starting October. The vaccines are to be administered to all residents that have completed their first two shots. The ministry has not said how long of an interval after a previous vaccination would be needed for people to receive the new vaccines. Members of the ministry's expert panel on Monday expressed concern that members of the public may refrain from taking their booster shot and wait till October to be administered the latest vaccines. They called on people aged 60 or over who are currently eligible for their fourth shot to complete the process as quickly as possible.
08/04 - From The Asahi Shimbun - Experts warn of influx of severe COVID-19 cases and more deaths. “New cases could have peaked in some areas. Cases have also begun to decline in some areas, but it is increasing in most others,” Wakita said at the news conference following the meeting. The numbers of severely ill patients and deaths tend to increase later than the surge in new cases. There were 478 severely ill patients as of Aug. 3, up 167 from a week earlier. The daily average of cases resulting in death for the week ending Aug. 2 was 110, or 1.9 times the average of the previous week of 58 deaths. In the sixth wave, new cases peaked in early February, but cases resulting in death posted a record high of 327 about three weeks later, according to a tally compiled by The Asahi Shimbun. “The seventh wave has the same trend as the sixth,” Wakita said. “Many elderly people in poor physical condition seem to have died after contracting the novel coronavirus.”
08/03 - From The Asahi Shimbun - Experts: Relieve doctors from having to report all COVID cases. The government needs to consider two points if it aims to sustain both the medical system and social and economic activities, the proposal states. The first point is “Responsible behavior by individuals that does not lead to the spread of infection.” The other is “Shifting to a flexible and efficient health and medical system that better fits the characteristics of the Omicron variant.” Experts warned, however, that the government will need to consider restricting people’s behavior if the medical system is still under strain even after these two points are put into action.
08/03 - From NHK News - Experts urge those with mild COVID symptoms to refrain from visiting hospital. Four emergency care and community healthcare societies, including the Japanese Association for Acute Medicine, held a news conference on Tuesday. They noted that the current wave of infections strains emergency care and fever clinics, affecting other medical services. They warned it seems likely that lives that can normally be saved will be lost. They also pointed out that in many cases with the Omicron variant, symptoms ease within several days and only about one in several thousand patients becomes seriously ill. The experts say those who have no problem with eating, drinking and breathing do not need to visit hospital in a hurry as no special treatment will be given. Meanwhile, they advise that people who have difficulty in drinking water or breathing and those who continue to have a fever of 37.5 degrees or over for four or more days should see a doctor. People aged 65 or older, those with underlying conditions and pregnant women are also recommended to consult a doctor.
08/02 - From The Japan Times - Japan learns to live with COVID-19 as locals flock to travel spots. The zest for domestic travel suggests that the world’s third-largest economy, one of the most cautious countries in reopening and with border curbs that are only eclipsed by mainland China’s strict rules, is increasingly ready to move on. Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has ruled out re-imposing nationwide curbs, and has said that his government may look to downgrade the status of COVID-19 to endemic after the wave, which would allow the new coronavirus patients to be treated at general clinics and remove the requirement for closely tracking case numbers.
08/02 - From The Japan Times - Experts urge Japan to downgrade COVID to similar class as seasonal flu. In a 19-page proposal, the experts also urged the government to adopt a flexible approach to COVID-19 that would prevent the health care system from being overwhelmed, such as by no longer identifying close contacts and allowing general clinics to treat patients. “Care at medical facilities and public health centers is on the verge of collapsing,” Shigeru Omi said in a news conference at the Japan National Press Club in Tokyo. “We’ve been discussing this topic for over a month.” Under the proposal, the basic course of treatment for COVID-19 patients under the law would no longer involve hospitalization, even if beds are available, although exceptions for mildly ill patients have been granted for some time. Those who are infected would not be requested to stay at home, but would do so voluntarily in line with common sense. “It’s important for each and every person to actively take measures to reduce the risk of infection,” said Hideaki Anan, deputy head of Fujisawa City Hospital in Kanagawa Prefecture.
08/01 - From The Asahi Shimbun - Kishida hints he may reclassify COVID-19 into a lower category. Currently, the novel coronavirus is categorized as “equivalent to a Type II” infectious disease. This means prefectural governors can advise COVID-19 patients to be hospitalized or restrict their work activities. However, it also means strict measures required for Type II infectious diseases impose huge burdens on health centers and hospitals if cases spike, including local public health centers needing to be aware of the number of all patients in their areas. In addition, the current categorization means businesses and public transport could cease to function if many employees or staff members must be isolated after coming into close contact with those infected. Therefore, considering the Omicron variant is less likely to cause serious symptoms, experts, governors and mayors have called on the government to reclassify COVID-19 as a Type V disease. Type V diseases include the seasonal flu, whereas Type II diseases include tuberculosis.
08/01 - From The Nikkei Asia - COVID in Japan shuts one in 10 hotels and travel agencies. "Accommodation facilities may fall into a negative spiral where they are unable to make new investments in preparation for travel demand recovery as they are pressed to repay their debts," said Kotaro Toriumi, an aviation and travel analyst.
08/01 - From The Nikkei Asia - JAL, ANA face slow recovery due to strict border restrictions. Kimihiro Nakahori, an ANA executive vice president, told reporters that "while demand for connecting flights is important, as a Japanese airline, I believe that our important role is to capture demand for flights to and from Japan." Aiming to ease border restrictions, he added that "We are requesting the elimination of negative certificates prior to entry into Japan, and asking the government to allow individual tourists to enter Japan."
08/01 - From The Mainichi - Tokyo records 21,958 more coronavirus infections on Aug. 1. It is the 13th straight day for Tokyo to see over 20,000 infections. New case numbers typically dip on Mondays due to low weekend testing figures, especially on Sundays. There were three COVID-19 deaths reported in the capital on Aug. 1, and total coronavirus fatalities in Tokyo stand at 4,672.
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May 2022 - Limited Resumption of Tourism has begun: Small pre-booked & guided tour groups will be able to enter as of June 10th, and will be available to the public for purchase at a future date. Please contact your airline for information on rebooking or refunding any flights currently booked, and please see our FAQ and the linked articles below for more information.

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Frequently Asked Questions on Tourism Entry - May 2022

"Where do I book a tour package for the test re-opening?"
  • At this time, the tour packages have not been made available, but should be shortly, per the Government announcement. Once we have further information, it will be posted here.
"Should I buy tickets for tourism entry later in 2022?"
  • Details have yet to be released at this time on when the borders will fully reopen. We still advise to avoid booking non-refundable tickets until the formal announcement has been made regarding the full opening of borders to tourism worldwide.
"What if the borders don't open in time for my previously booked flight?"
"Will Japan reopen for tourism to those who have already been fully vaccinated against the virus?"
"So, quarantine will still be in place when the borders re-open?"
  • Depending on the country, travelers will be subject to a grouping system that will determine if you can skip quarantine, and whether or not you need to have all 3 boosters to do so. The government will examine the infection situations in countries and regions and categorize them into three groups: red, yellow and blue. Passengers from the red group, the riskiest category in terms of infections, will be required to take the virus tests upon arrival and isolate for three days at designated quarantine facilities. If they have received three vaccine shots, they can self-quarantine at home but still must take the tests upon arrival. Those in the middle-risk yellow group will also be required to take virus tests and self-quarantine at home for three days. But if they have received booster shots of the COVID-19 vaccine, both requirements will be waived. Those in the low-risk blue group will be exempted from the tests and quarantine rules, even if they have not received their booster shots.

Frequently Asked Questions on Non-Tourism Entry - May 2022

"I am arriving in Japan for a stopovelayover while on the way to another country, what do I do?"
  • No entry to Japan is permitted on stopovers, or for transit between airports. At this time, there is no indication that this restriction will be lifted with the limited resumption of tourism later in May/June 2022. Further questions or concerns should be directed to your airline only, as your flight may still need to be changed in that time frame.
"I need more information on special entry, or re-entry as a resident/family/spouse of resident of Japan, where should I post?"
  • Contact the Embassy of Japan in your country to find out more information on the documents required for entry.
"I need more information on the border opening as a New Entrant for work or school, where should I post?"

Daily Cases, Deaths & Vaccinations - Updated: 05/31

Monthly News Updates - May 2022

05/31 - From Kyodo News - More regional Japan airports to accept entrants from abroad: PM. The government will also unveil guidelines on COVID-era inbound tourism for the travel industry on June 7, Kishida said, three days before it resumes accepting tourists from overseas, initially targeting those on package tours with guides and fixed itineraries. The infection situation in Japan has been stabilizing in recent weeks and the daily cap on new arrivals from overseas is set to be raised Wednesday to 20,000 people from the current 10,000. "The resumption of inbound tourism carries great significance in that the benefits of the weak yen can be felt," Kishida told reporters at his office. "We will enable regional airports such as Sendai (in northeastern Japan) to resume accepting international flights, in consultation with local governments," he said. At present, international flights are limited to five airports in Japan -- Haneda, Narita, Kansai, Chubu and Fukuoka -- as part of COVID-19 restrictions. Naha and New Chitose airports, gateways to popular tourist spots in Okinawa and Hokkaido, respectively, are set to resume accepting international flights by the end of June.
05/30 - From The Japan Times - Tourist on Japan's package tour trial tests positive for COVID-19. The tourists, all Thai nationals, got tested after the individual complained of a sore throat on Monday, according to Kyodo News. The tour has been canceled. The individual, who has no fever, is expected to quarantine in a repurposed facility for people who have tested positive for COVID-19. The travel agency that hosted the tour is coordinating with authorities to deal with the situation. The three close contacts are currently isolating at a separate hotel, the agency said. They received a negative result in an antigen test and do not have any symptoms.
05/27 - From Kyodo News - Japan PM Kishida says foreign tourists should follow Japan face mask rules. Kishida's statement came a day after he said Japan will open its borders to foreign tourists for the first time in about two years, starting from June 10 for those on package tours with guides and fixed itineraries, amid receding fears over the coronavirus. "We must have them follow Japanese rules of wearing face masks," Kishida said in a session of the House of Representatives Budget Committee. He said the government will ask tour operators to tell tourists from abroad to abide by the instructions, and persuade companies, schools and other entities accepting foreign citizens to do likewise.
05/26 - From The Japan Times - It's official: Japan to allow in foreign tourists on package tours from June 10. Masakazu Tokura, chairman of Keidanren, the nation’s biggest business lobby, voiced his expectation Monday that Japan will further ease its border controls. “The 20,000 cap is just a process. I expect it will become 50,000 and then 100,000, and eventually there will be free and open border controls similar to that of G7 countries,” Tokura said.
05/26 - From Kyodo News - Japan to slowly resume accepting foreign tourists from June 10. While the government is poised to double the current cap on daily entries to 20,000 from next Wednesday, it will likely take time to again see the large numbers of foreign visitors seen as a key pillar to Japan's economic growth. Tours will only be accepted from the "blue" list of 98 countries and regions presenting the lowest risk of infections, which includes the United States, China, Australia and South Korea. Individuals from blue list countries are exempt from testing and isolation measures. The list is subject to review at any time.
05/25 - From Kyodo News - Japan mulls resuming foreign tourist entry in June. While details such as whether the government will place a cap on the number of tourists allowed in are not yet known, Prime Minister Fumio Kishida is expected to announce the plan Thursday at the earliest, the sources said.
05/24 - From The Nikkei Asia - Japan begins trial to allow in small foreign tour groups. Six travel agents will take a total of 15 groups during the trial period that lasts until early June. Tourists from Singapore, Thailand and Australia are also expected to take part in the project. Each tour group will comprise up to four people, who will be accompanied by a tour guide. Nippon Travel Agency will use cars for travel within a prefecture. Tourists will be required to wear face masks on bullet trains. These tourists will have their temperatures taken daily. The tour guides will also carry antigen test kits, and if an infection is suspected, arrangements will be made with local medical facilities.
05/24 - From The Mainichi - 7 from US land in Japan for 1st test tours before tourism reopening. The seven will be split into two itineraries. One includes Tochigi Prefecture's Nikko Toshogu shrine and Zenkoji temple in Nagano Prefecture, while the other features Iwate Prefecture's Hanamakionsen hot spring resort and the Mogami River in Yamagata Prefecture. [...] As part of infection prevention measures, groups will comprise no more than four people, with participants asked to wear masks when visiting tourist spots or using transportation. A correspondence system will also be set up for cases where someone tests positive mid-tour. [...] Despite plans for some restrictions to be eased, including doubling the maximum daily limit on eligible overseas arrivals to 20,000 from June, no date for lifting tourist entry restrictions has been indicated.
05/20 - From The Asahi Shimbun - Japan to waive virus tests, self-isolation for low-risk arrivals. The government will examine the infection situations in countries and regions and categorize them into three groups: red, yellow and blue. Passengers from the red group, the riskiest category in terms of infections, will be required to take the virus tests upon arrival and isolate for three days at designated quarantine facilities. If they have received three vaccine shots, they can self-quarantine at home but still must take the tests upon arrival. Those in the middle-risk yellow group will also be required to take virus tests and self-quarantine at home for three days. But if they have received booster shots of the COVID-19 vaccine, both requirements will be waived. Those in the low-risk blue group will be exempted from the tests and quarantine rules, even if they have not received their booster shots. The government will announce the countries and regions for each group next week.
05/19 - From The Mainichi - Japan to classify countries in 3 groups for eased COVID border controls this summer. Under the grouping system, Japan will exempt people from countries and territories with the lowest positive COVID-19 results from testing, regardless of vaccination status. For travelers from the group with the second lowest positive rates, Japan will not require testing and isolation if they have been triple-inoculated with government-designated coronavirus vaccines. People arriving from the areas with the highest positive rates will need to go through the current procedure, including COVID-19 tests and post-arrival isolation.
05/17 - From The Washington Post - Japan’s tiny tourism test will let in 50 foreign travelers. Japan is preparing to welcome a small number of tourists back to the country after shutting its borders during the pandemic — but don’t count on being one of them. In a test to prepare for a larger resumption of travel, the country is planning to allow about 50 vaccinated-and-boosted travelers to visit as part of organized tours later this month, the Japan Tourism Agency said Tuesday. The pool of 50 travelers will be allowed from four countries Japan has designated as priority markets: the United States, Australia, Thailand and Singapore. It wasn’t immediately clear how the travelers would be selected, or which tour companies would be involved. The Associated Press reported that each tour group would be capped at four people.
05/17 - From The Asahi Shimbun - Japan to finally let in foreign tourists on trial basis this month. The entering tourists must be triple vaccinated and will be accompanied by tour conductors from travel agencies. The tour destinations in Japan will be limited to areas where local governments have given the green light. The central government will draw up guidelines for travel agencies and accommodation facilities after examining the effectiveness of anti-infection measures in the trial run and the responses to cases in which tour participants become infected. If the government determines that tours can be conducted without spreading infections, it will consider gradually accepting more tourists.
05/16 - From The Nikkei Asia - Japan to test accepting tourists from Singapore, Thailand and more. The Japanese government will begin a trial project this month on accepting fully vaccinated inbound tourists, the Japan Tourism Agency said on Tuesday, ahead of its broader easing of COVID-19 border control measures slated for June. Small groups of tourists will be accepted from four countries -- the U.S., Australia, Thailand and Singapore -- to test the effectiveness of measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19. The trial project will focus on package tours in which Japanese travel agencies manage participants' activities. Participants from the four countries will need to meet certain conditions, such as being triple-vaccinated, and travel agencies will need to accompany them on predetermined itineraries.
05/16 - From Nippon.com - Japan to Begin Trial to Accept Foreign Tourists in June. The Japanese government is planning to launch early in June a test project to accept participants of group package tours from overseas again, government officials said Monday. The move to receive foreign tourists, currently not allowed to enter Japan due to its COVID-19 border control measures, will be announced as early as this week. If there are no major problems, the government will gradually expand the range of foreign tourists allowed into Japan. On a television program Friday, Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said that a major concern over the border control measures is when and how far Japan will reopen its borders to foreign tourists.
05/14 - From The Japan Times - Kishida hints for first time at easing Japan's mask standards. On border control measures against the virus, Kishida also offered more details of the government’s preparations for potentially loosening its tough measures. “Our major focus is when (foreign) tourists should be allowed to start coming to Japan and how many tourists should be accepted,” he sad. “We hope to conduct an experiment (on group tours) shortly, if possible, as part of preparations so that we can get ready for next month and later.” The TV program was recorded Friday evening and aired late at night. In a parliamentary committee meeting that morning, the prime minister had denied he was considering easing the mask standards
05/12 - From The Asahi Shimbun - Japan moving to double entry cap to 20,000 from June 1. The government is also considering exempting arriving passengers from being tested for COVID-19 if they come from nations with low rates of new infections, test negative upon departure from their home countries or show proof of COVID-19 vaccination. It is expected to announce a final decision by the end of May after monitoring the infection situation in Japan, where cases have begun climbing again after the Golden Week series of national holidays that ended earlier in the month. The easing of entry restrictions is aimed at raising daily arrivals of business travelers to the pre-pandemic level of 30,000, according to the sources.
05/12 - From The Japan Times - Japan detects first cases of BA.4 and BA.5 omicron in airport screening. There were two cases of the BA.5 subvariant, found in a man in his 60s arriving at Narita Airport from Zambia and another man in his 60s arriving at Narita from Spain. Both individuals arrived on April 29 and were asymptomatic. BA.4 was found in a man in his 50s flying from South Africa who arrived at Narita Airport on April 22. He is also asymptomatic, the health ministry said. The three were fully vaccinated with three shots, according to the ministry.
05/11 - From The Nikkei Asia - Japan looks to waive airport COVID tests for vaccinated travelers. The plans under consideration include exempting those who have received a third dose of a coronavirus vaccine or tested negative in pre-departure testing. The infection rate in the country of origin will also be taken in to account. Currently, all travelers arriving in Japan must undergo COVID-19 tests. "As for measures at borders from June, we're reassessing our testing rules and quarantine requests," Chief Cabinet Secretary Hirokazu Matsuno told a press conference Wednesday. "We'll make appropriate decisions based on the situation at home and abroad and control measures taken by other countries," he said. The government will make a final decision based on Japan's infection trends following the Golden Week holiday, which ended Sunday.
05/11 - From Kyodo News - Japan planning to allow 20,000 daily international arrivals in June. The relaxation is expected to go ahead following an examination of airport quarantine infrastructure and the state of domestic infections after Japan's Golden Week holidays that ended last Sunday. Additionally, the government is considering accepting tourists by trialing small-scale tours as soon as this month, with an eye to expanding reception of foreign leisure travelers in stages.
05/10 - From The Japan Times - Japan should end cap on overseas visitors, senior LDP lawmaker says. Speaking in an interview Tuesday at his offices in parliament, Hiroshige Seko said the country should wind down some of the toughest COVID-related border restrictions among leading economies. He said travelers who have received three vaccine doses should be allowed entry, but be required to wear masks in line with government advice. “Japan’s border controls have lost a lot of their significance” because the spread of the infection isn’t leading to hospital overcrowding, Seko said. “We should abolish them.” He added that he would seek to have the government consider the idea. His comments came after Prime Minister Fumio Kishida pledged in a speech in London last week to relax Japan’s virus-related border controls in line with other Group of Seven major democracies in June. He later said the opening up would happen gradually — based on the advice of experts and the latest infection figures.
05/07 - From The Japan Times - Japan to allow tourist groups as soon as this month, report says. Japan is set to experiment with opening its borders to small groups of vaccinated foreign tourists as soon as this month, Fuji News Network reported Friday, in a potential lifeline for the country’s ailing travel industry. Those wishing to visit must have undergone three COVID-19 vaccination shots and be part of a package tour with a fixed itinerary, FNN said, citing multiple government officials. The limited resumption of inbound tourism will be treated as an experiment and, if infections do not spread, the program will be expanded, it said. Japan is also looking at doubling the daily entry cap to 20,000 and accepting overseas tourists from June, the Nikkei newspaper reported, citing unnamed sources. That report said a decision could come by the end of this month.
05/06 - From Kyodo News - Japan looking to resume accepting foreign tourists in June. The government currently allows up to 10,000 people a day to enter Japan, but visitors are limited to businesspeople, technical interns and students. It plans to raise the cap as well as the number of foreign tourists in stages in the coming months. During the trial phase, small groups of foreigners would visit sightseeing spots based on fixed itineraries in order for the government to see whether it can grasp their movements and how to respond if a COVID-19 case is detected, according to the source. The government will also consider requiring that participants have already had booster vaccine shots before the tours. Japan strengthened its border controls in February 2020 as the virus spread around the world. The government later began admitting a limited number of vaccinated foreign visitors with business purposes.
05/06 - From The Nikkei Asia - Japan weighs welcoming foreign tourists as early as June. Japan might start accepting foreign tourists next month, Nikkei has learned. The government will make a final decision on lifting the ban on tourist visas in two weeks, when the number of infections during Golden Week will be known. [...] One option regarding foreign tourism under consideration is to start with group tours, which are easier for travel agencies and others to manage. The upper limit on the number of entrants will also be changed. One idea is to increase the daily entry quota from the current 10,000 to 20,000, for the time being. The government is also considering accepting tourists from the U.S., Europe, and Asia under certain conditions, such as limiting the number of people. Officials will explore ways to balance steps to combat COVID-19 and reviving the economy.
05/05 - From The Nikkei Asia - Transcript: Japan PM Kishida's speech in London. "At the end of last year, Japan strengthened its border control measures in response to the global spread of the Omicron variant. It was an essential public-health step to delay the variant's entry into the country. This allowed us to fortify our healthcare system and promote vaccinations. I hope it is not too boastful to say that Japan's response to COVID-19 has been one of the most successful in the world. We have now eased border control measures significantly, with the next easing taking place in June, when Japan will introduce a smoother entry process similar to that of other G7 members."
05/03 - From The Japan Times - The ¥22 trillion question: When will Japan reopen to foreign tourists? As was the case before Japan opened its borders to foreign students and business travelers, one frustration for people who want to come to Japan is the unpredictability of the situation — not knowing when and how the decision will be made, and under what conditions. The criteria that Kishida and other top government officials have mentioned — numbers of COVID-19 cases at home and abroad, and border restrictions in other countries — remain too vague for people to figure out. To alleviate concerns about opening borders all at once, Japan could start by allowing visitors on package tours with tour conductors and guides, and then open up to more people in phases, Wada said. “The important thing is for the government to show the road map,” he said. “After the basic direction is drafted, details can be hammered out by experts.”
05/03 - From NHK News - Researchers detect Omicron subvariant with new mutation first time in Japan. The two patients' symptoms were light. Researchers believe that the mutation occurred in Japan because of its genetic characteristics and the fact that the patients have no recent records of overseas travel. Subvariants with similar mutations have reportedly been confirmed in Britain and other countries and are on the rise. Associate Professor Takeuchi says the new mutation could make the subvariant highly contagious, so people should continue to take anti-virus measures.
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2021.10.25 11:41 tobotic Fannie Mae could give its employees a $552.80/hour raise and still make $3.0 billion profit

Fannie Mae is 62 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $552.80/hour raise and still make $3.0 billion profit.
Freddie Mac is 141 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $381.60/hour raise and still make $1.8 billion profit.
SoftBank Group is 184 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $288.60/hour raise and still make $11.8 billion profit.
Saudi Aramco is 14 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $222.70/hour raise and still make $12.3 billion profit.
Enterprise Products Partners is 448 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $190.90/hour raise and still make $943.9 million profit.
Facebook is 86 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $179.30/hour raise and still make $7.3 billion profit.
Apple is 6 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $140.80/hour raise and still make $14.4 billion profit.
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing is 251 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $110.00/hour raise and still make $4.3 billion profit.
Rajesh Exports is 348 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $108.90/hour raise and still make $28.5 million profit.
Amgen is 476 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $107.80/hour raise and still make $1.8 billion profit.
Alphabet is 21 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $107.30/hour raise and still make $10.1 billion profit.
Netflix is 484 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $105.90/hour raise and still make $690.4 million profit.
Microsoft is 33 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $98.00/hour raise and still make $11.1 billion profit.
Tencent Holdings is 132 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $97.30/hour raise and still make $5.8 billion profit.
BHP Group is 273 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $90.80/hour raise and still make $2.0 billion profit.
AIA Group is 213 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $89.10/hour raise and still make $1.4 billion profit.
Bharat Petroleum is 394 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $84.80/hour raise and still make $544.5 million profit.
Goldman Sachs Group is 193 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $84.20/hour raise and still make $2.4 billion profit.
Enbridge is 418 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $74.70/hour raise and still make $626.9 million profit.
Rio Tinto Group is 256 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $74.20/hour raise and still make $2.4 billion profit.
Legal & General Group is 153 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $73.60/hour raise and still make $515.2 million profit.
Samsung Life Insurance is 416 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $73.40/hour raise and still make $268.2 million profit.
Trafigura Group is 31 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $71.10/hour raise and still make $424.8 million profit.
Intel is 108 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $68.10/hour raise and still make $5.2 billion profit.
Eli Lilly is 495 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $63.80/hour raise and still make $1.5 billion profit.
Industrial Bank is 196 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $58.40/hour raise and still make $2.4 billion profit.
Morgan Stanley is 204 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $58.20/hour raise and still make $2.7 billion profit.
China Merchants Bank is 162 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $56.00/hour raise and still make $3.5 billion profit.
Roche Group is 147 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $54.10/hour raise and still make $3.8 billion profit.
British American Tobacco is 368 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $53.50/hour raise and still make $2.1 billion profit.
Commonwealth Bank of Australia is 498 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $53.40/hour raise and still make $1.6 billion profit.
Cisco Systems is 221 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $52.20/hour raise and still make $2.8 billion profit.
Sanofi is 276 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $50.90/hour raise and still make $3.5 billion profit.
Shanghai Pudong Development Bank is 201 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $49.40/hour raise and still make $2.1 billion profit.
Verizon Communications is 45 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $48.60/hour raise and still make $4.5 billion profit.
Phoenix Group Holdings is 427 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $48.20/hour raise and still make $255.8 million profit.
Xiaomi is 338 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $48.20/hour raise and still make $737.5 million profit.
Allstate is 254 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $47.90/hour raise and still make $1.4 billion profit.
Progressive is 275 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $47.50/hour raise and still make $1.4 billion profit.
Procter & Gamble is 128 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $47.40/hour raise and still make $3.3 billion profit.
KDDI is 217 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $46.80/hour raise and still make $1.5 billion profit.
Bank of Communications is 137 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $45.30/hour raise and still make $2.9 billion profit.
Aviva is 157 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $44.70/hour raise and still make $897.1 million profit.
Pfizer is 281 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $44.20/hour raise and still make $2.4 billion profit.
Manulife Financial is 169 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $42.70/hour raise and still make $1.1 billion profit.
Berkshire Hathaway is 11 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $42.60/hour raise and still make $10.6 billion profit.
MetLife is 136 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $41.90/hour raise and still make $1.4 billion profit.
Cigna is 28 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $41.80/hour raise and still make $2.1 billion profit.
Iberdrola is 319 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $41.60/hour raise and still make $1.0 billion profit.
JPMorgan Chase is 43 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $41.10/hour raise and still make $7.3 billion profit.
Chubb is 333 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $41.10/hour raise and still make $883.2 million profit.
Philip Morris International is 422 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $40.90/hour raise and still make $2.0 billion profit.
Prudential PLC is 185 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $40.90/hour raise and still make $529.5 million profit.
Johnson & Johnson is 94 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $39.40/hour raise and still make $3.7 billion profit.
SK Hynix is 452 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $39.40/hour raise and still make $1.0 billion profit.
USAA is 330 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $39.20/hour raise and still make $976.7 million profit.
KB Financial Group is 366 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $39.20/hour raise and still make $732.2 million profit.
China Construction Bank is 25 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $37.90/hour raise and still make $9.8 billion profit.
Fortum is 186 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $37.60/hour raise and still make $519.3 million profit.
Industrial & Commercial Bank of China is 20 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $37.50/hour raise and still make $11.4 billion profit.
ThyssenKrupp is 298 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $37.30/hour raise and still make $2.7 billion profit.
Royal Bank of Canada is 250 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $36.50/hour raise and still make $2.1 billion profit.
Sony is 88 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $36.30/hour raise and still make $2.8 billion profit.
ViacomCBS is 465 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $36.10/hour raise and still make $605.5 million profit.
Toronto-Dominion Bank is 296 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $35.60/hour raise and still make $2.2 billion profit.
AbbVie is 247 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $35.40/hour raise and still make $1.2 billion profit.
Coca-Cola is 370 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $34.80/hour raise and still make $1.9 billion profit.
Merck is 232 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $34.70/hour raise and still make $1.8 billion profit.
Amer International Group is 68 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $33.10/hour raise and still make $462.9 million profit.
UBS Group is 302 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $33.00/hour raise and still make $1.6 billion profit.
Bank of China is 39 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $32.60/hour raise and still make $7.0 billion profit.
China Resources Land is 470 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $32.40/hour raise and still make $1.1 billion profit.
Travelers is 385 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $32.10/hour raise and still make $674.2 million profit.
Alibaba Group Holding is 63 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $31.90/hour raise and still make $5.6 billion profit.
Bank of Montreal is 472 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $31.50/hour raise and still make $947.1 million profit.
Indian Oil is 212 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $31.40/hour raise and still make $728.9 million profit.
Bank of America is 77 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $30.40/hour raise and still make $4.5 billion profit.
China Minsheng Banking is 224 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $30.30/hour raise and still make $1.2 billion profit.
Truist Financial is 496 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $30.10/hour raise and still make $1.1 billion profit.
Samsung Electronics is 15 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $29.80/hour raise and still make $5.5 billion profit.
Longfor Group Holdings is 456 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $29.50/hour raise and still make $724.7 million profit.
Mizuho Financial Group is 406 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $29.40/hour raise and still make $1.1 billion profit.
Sunac China Holdings is 364 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $28.90/hour raise and still make $1.3 billion profit.
GlaxoSmithKline is 264 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $28.30/hour raise and still make $1.8 billion profit.
Sun Life Financial is 379 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $28.20/hour raise and still make $465.7 million profit.
Novartis is 218 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $27.50/hour raise and still make $2.0 billion profit.
Thermo Fisher Scientific is 380 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $27.20/hour raise and still make $1.6 billion profit.
Takeda Pharmaceutical is 409 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $27.20/hour raise and still make $886.7 million profit.
Oracle is 304 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $27.10/hour raise and still make $2.5 billion profit.
LyondellBasell Industries is 438 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $26.70/hour raise and still make $355.0 million profit.
U.S. Bancorp is 479 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $26.30/hour raise and still make $1.2 billion profit.
Oil & Natural Gas is 243 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $26.20/hour raise and still make $547.3 million profit.
Zurich Insurance Group is 168 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $26.10/hour raise and still make $958.5 million profit.
Mitsui is 114 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $25.60/hour raise and still make $791.1 million profit.
Humana is 110 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $24.90/hour raise and still make $841.8 million profit.
Fubon Financial Holding is 388 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $24.90/hour raise and still make $766.4 million profit.
Agricultural Bank of China is 29 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $24.40/hour raise and still make $7.8 billion profit.
Boehringer Ingelheim is 464 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $24.20/hour raise and still make $872.2 million profit.
Vale is 294 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $23.70/hour raise and still make $1.2 billion profit.
State Farm Insurance is 106 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $23.40/hour raise and still make $934.7 million profit.
Northwestern Mutual is 360 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $23.10/hour raise and still make $106.2 million profit.
Comcast is 64 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $22.60/hour raise and still make $2.6 billion profit.
Taikang Insurance Group is 343 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $22.10/hour raise and still make $870.9 million profit.
Exelon is 369 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $21.90/hour raise and still make $490.8 million profit.
China National Offshore Oil is 92 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $21.60/hour raise and still make $1.2 billion profit.
Lockheed Martin is 144 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $21.60/hour raise and still make $1.7 billion profit.
Credit Suisse Group is 378 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $21.00/hour raise and still make $710.9 million profit.
Toyota Motor is 9 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $20.90/hour raise and still make $5.3 billion profit.
StoneX Group is 190 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $20.70/hour raise and still make $42.4 million profit.
Ping An Insurance is 16 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $20.70/hour raise and still make $5.2 billion profit.
SAP is 395 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $20.60/hour raise and still make $1.5 billion profit.
New China Life Insurance is 415 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $20.60/hour raise and still make $517.9 million profit.
3M is 382 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $20.40/hour raise and still make $1.3 billion profit.
Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group is 325 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $20.10/hour raise and still make $1.2 billion profit.
Anthem is 50 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $19.80/hour raise and still make $1.1 billion profit.
Bank of Nova Scotia is 376 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $19.70/hour raise and still make $1.3 billion profit.
Samsung C&T is 473 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $19.70/hour raise and still make $219.4 million profit.
Country Garden Holdings is 139 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $19.50/hour raise and still make $1.3 billion profit.
HP is 182 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $19.30/hour raise and still make $711.0 million profit.
Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group is 180 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $19.20/hour raise and still make $1.8 billion profit.
Dai-ichi Life Holdings is 119 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $19.10/hour raise and still make $857.9 million profit.
Citigroup is 82 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $19.00/hour raise and still make $2.8 billion profit.
Achmea is 455 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $18.90/hour raise and still make $182.9 million profit.
Capital One Financial is 389 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $18.80/hour raise and still make $678.5 million profit.
Allianz is 38 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $18.60/hour raise and still make $1.9 billion profit.
Power Corp. of Canada is 228 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $18.30/hour raise and still make $381.4 million profit.
Bunge is 289 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $18.00/hour raise and still make $286.2 million profit.
American Express is 312 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $17.70/hour raise and still make $783.8 million profit.
Chubu Electric Power is 440 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $17.70/hour raise and still make $347.1 million profit.
ABB is 410 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $17.60/hour raise and still make $1.3 billion profit.
Nestlé is 79 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $17.20/hour raise and still make $3.3 billion profit.
L’Oréal is 387 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $17.10/hour raise and still make $1.0 billion profit.
Huawei Investment & Holding is 44 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $17.10/hour raise and still make $2.3 billion profit.
UnitedHealth Group is 8 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $16.80/hour raise and still make $3.9 billion profit.
Honeywell International is 374 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $16.70/hour raise and still make $1.2 billion profit.
Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) is 146 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $16.70/hour raise and still make $443.0 million profit.
Medtronic is 419 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $16.50/hour raise and still make $1.2 billion profit.
Tokyo Electric Power is 187 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $16.20/hour raise and still make $426.6 million profit.
Mondelez International is 463 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $16.20/hour raise and still make $888.8 million profit.
Enel is 118 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $16.10/hour raise and still make $743.5 million profit.
ING Group is 391 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $16.10/hour raise and still make $641.0 million profit.
Cathay Financial Holding is 346 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $15.80/hour raise and still make $633.1 million profit.
Marubeni is 165 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $15.60/hour raise and still make $531.4 million profit.
China Vanke is 160 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $15.40/hour raise and still make $1.5 billion profit.
Unilever is 175 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $15.40/hour raise and still make $1.6 billion profit.
AstraZeneca is 462 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $15.10/hour raise and still make $799.0 million profit.
BNP Paribas is 97 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $15.00/hour raise and still make $2.0 billion profit.
Crédit Agricole is 93 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $15.00/hour raise and still make $766.9 million profit.
General Motors is 49 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $15.00/hour raise and still make $1.6 billion profit.
Abbott Laboratories is 350 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $14.90/hour raise and still make $1.1 billion profit.
PTT is 206 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $14.80/hour raise and still make $301.8 million profit.
CHS is 429 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $14.50/hour raise and still make $105.6 million profit.
Deere is 340 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $14.20/hour raise and still make $687.8 million profit.
Orange is 229 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $13.90/hour raise and still make $1.4 billion profit.
Banco Bradesco is 426 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $13.80/hour raise and still make $768.2 million profit.
Gree Electric Appliances is 488 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $13.80/hour raise and still make $803.5 million profit.
Itaú Unibanco Holding is 322 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $13.70/hour raise and still make $916.6 million profit.
Meiji Yasuda Life Insurance is 313 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $13.70/hour raise and still make $445.1 million profit.
POSCO is 226 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $13.70/hour raise and still make $335.1 million profit.
Daiwa House Industry is 306 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $13.60/hour raise and still make $460.1 million profit.
TIAA is 285 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $13.50/hour raise and still make $139.5 million profit.
AXA is 46 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $13.50/hour raise and still make $901.3 million profit.
Hyundai Mobis is 398 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $13.30/hour raise and still make $324.1 million profit.
Sberbank is 269 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $13.30/hour raise and still make $2.6 billion profit.
Barclays is 345 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $13.30/hour raise and still make $764.0 million profit.
BMW Group is 54 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $12.80/hour raise and still make $1.1 billion profit.
DZ Bank is 342 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $12.80/hour raise and still make $248.4 million profit.
Intesa Sanpaolo is 291 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $12.70/hour raise and still make $933.5 million profit.
Tokio Marine Holdings is 208 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $12.70/hour raise and still make $381.6 million profit.
Munich Re Group is 117 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $12.60/hour raise and still make $345.0 million profit.
Korea Electric Power is 222 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $12.50/hour raise and still make $422.0 million profit.
Dow is 310 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $12.40/hour raise and still make $306.2 million profit.
Maersk is 297 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $12.30/hour raise and still make $712.5 million profit.
Linde is 447 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $12.20/hour raise and still make $625.2 million profit.
Nike is 321 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $12.10/hour raise and still make $634.8 million profit.
Charter Communications is 230 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $12.10/hour raise and still make $805.5 million profit.
Xiamen C&D is 148 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $11.90/hour raise and still make $238.2 million profit.
Northrop Grumman is 326 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $11.90/hour raise and still make $797.2 million profit.
MS&AD Insurance Group Holdings is 245 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $11.80/hour raise and still make $340.5 million profit.
Nippon Life Insurance is 111 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $11.80/hour raise and still make $781.8 million profit.
Tesco is 99 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $11.80/hour raise and still make $2.0 billion profit.
China Everbright Group is 194 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $11.80/hour raise and still make $642.7 million profit.
Anglo American is 399 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $11.80/hour raise and still make $522.2 million profit.
Talanx is 241 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $11.80/hour raise and still make $191.7 million profit.
Kansai Electric Power is 417 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $11.60/hour raise and still make $257.0 million profit.
China Pacific Insurance (Group) is 158 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $11.60/hour raise and still make $890.7 million profit.
General Dynamics is 316 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $11.30/hour raise and still make $791.8 million profit.
Anhui Conch Group is 315 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $11.30/hour raise and still make $469.6 million profit.
General Electric is 104 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $11.20/hour raise and still make $1.4 billion profit.
Caterpillar is 283 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $11.10/hour raise and still make $749.5 million profit.
Zhejiang Rongsheng Holding Group is 255 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $11.00/hour raise and still make $156.6 million profit.
Pertamina is 287 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $11.00/hour raise and still make $262.8 million profit.
Arrow Electronics is 423 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $10.80/hour raise and still make $146.1 million profit.
Honda Motor is 48 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $10.60/hour raise and still make $1.6 billion profit.
China Mobile Communications is 56 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $10.20/hour raise and still make $3.2 billion profit.
Reliance Industries is 155 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $10.10/hour raise and still make $1.7 billion profit.
CVS Health is 7 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $10.10/hour raise and still make $1.8 billion profit.
Sompo Holdings is 331 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $10.10/hour raise and still make $336.0 million profit.
Lloyds Banking Group is 267 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $9.90/hour raise and still make $422.6 million profit.
Assicurazioni Generali is 73 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $9.90/hour raise and still make $496.8 million profit.
Holcim is 492 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $9.70/hour raise and still make $452.0 million profit.
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone is 55 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $9.60/hour raise and still make $2.2 billion profit.
Midea Group is 288 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $9.50/hour raise and still make $986.3 million profit.
ENEOS Holdings is 166 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $9.50/hour raise and still make $268.9 million profit.
CITIC Group is 115 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $9.30/hour raise and still make $960.6 million profit.
Zijin Mining Group is 486 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $9.20/hour raise and still make $235.8 million profit.
Home Depot is 41 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $9.20/hour raise and still make $3.2 billion profit.
Itochu is 71 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $9.20/hour raise and still make $946.7 million profit.
Jiangsu Shagang Group is 308 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $9.20/hour raise and still make $286.1 million profit.
Centene is 57 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $9.10/hour raise and still make $452.0 million profit.
China Life Insurance is 32 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $9.10/hour raise and still make $1.2 billion profit.
Greenland Holding Group is 142 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $9.10/hour raise and still make $543.4 million profit.
Banco do Brasil is 482 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $9.00/hour raise and still make $574.9 million profit.
PepsiCo is 131 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $8.80/hour raise and still make $1.8 billion profit.
Louis Dreyfus is 362 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $8.80/hour raise and still make $95.5 million profit.
Kia is 215 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $8.80/hour raise and still make $315.2 million profit.
China Merchants Group is 163 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $8.70/hour raise and still make $1.5 billion profit.
XMXYG is 189 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $8.60/hour raise and still make $69.8 million profit.
China FAW Group is 66 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $8.50/hour raise and still make $716.6 million profit.
Petrobras is 181 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $8.40/hour raise and still make $285.2 million profit.
HSBC Holdings is 102 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $8.30/hour raise and still make $1.3 billion profit.
Volvo is 327 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $8.20/hour raise and still make $524.5 million profit.
JD.com is 59 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $8.20/hour raise and still make $1.8 billion profit.
LG Electronics is 192 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $8.00/hour raise and still make $417.1 million profit.
Shenzhen Investment Holdings is 396 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $8.00/hour raise and still make $415.2 million profit.
Migros Group is 386 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $8.00/hour raise and still make $470.6 million profit.
Best Buy is 238 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $7.90/hour raise and still make $449.5 million profit.
Danone is 454 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $7.90/hour raise and still make $557.2 million profit.
Wuchan Zhongda Group is 170 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $7.70/hour raise and still make $99.5 million profit.
Deutsche Telekom is 53 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $7.50/hour raise and still make $1.2 billion profit.
Lowe's is 80 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $7.50/hour raise and still make $1.5 billion profit.
SAIC Motor is 60 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $7.50/hour raise and still make $740.2 million profit.
Dell Technologies is 76 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $7.40/hour raise and still make $812.5 million profit.
BAE Systems is 487 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $7.40/hour raise and still make $416.5 million profit.
Suzuki Motor is 412 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $7.20/hour raise and still make $345.3 million profit.
Hengli Group is 67 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $7.20/hour raise and still make $593.2 million profit.
Subaru is 459 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $7.20/hour raise and still make $180.4 million profit.
Idemitsu Kosan is 318 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $7.20/hour raise and still make $82.3 million profit.
Toyota Tsusho is 167 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $7.10/hour raise and still make $317.4 million profit.
Mitsubishi is 51 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $7.10/hour raise and still make $406.9 million profit.
Jingye Group is 375 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $7.10/hour raise and still make $151.8 million profit.
CMA CGM is 393 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $7.00/hour raise and still make $438.8 million profit.
BT Group is 436 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $7.00/hour raise and still make $480.7 million profit.
Alfresa Holdings is 494 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $6.90/hour raise and still make $57.8 million profit.
Schneider Electric is 424 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $6.90/hour raise and still make $605.6 million profit.
Yango Longking Group is 332 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $6.80/hour raise and still make $135.1 million profit.
Ericsson is 480 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $6.80/hour raise and still make $474.6 million profit.
Costco Wholesale is 27 on the Forbes 500. It could give its employees a $6.70/hour raise and still make $1.0 billion profit.
Source for data: https://fortune.com/global500/2021/search/
Feel free to double-check any of my calculations.
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2020.09.25 03:03 InjuringDeadDr Japan player seeking insightful advice and discussion.

Hello, fellow Vicky 2 players! First time poster here.
I recently came back to Vicky 2 after playing other Paradox games for a few months and I can safely say that my passion for Vicky is alive and well! Since I came back, I’ve been contemplating different strategies and build orders. Not like speed running but just looking for efficient solutions to problems and obstacles that appear in our everyday games. To this end I have formulated eight questions regarding a Japanese playthrough for anyone familiar and has some time to answer or discuss. While these questions deal mainly with Japan, I would also welcome anyone who can share interesting or enlightening information from their own preferred country and playstyle so we can have a nice discussion for more people to participate in. 😊 (I am using vanilla + most recent version HPM as well as misc. mods like cool map mod, Square Shaded Flag Frame, and Improved Names – HPM.)
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1.) Whenever I start a game as Imperial Japan, I'm always losing tons of money so after changing to production National Value I set tax, tariff, education, and administration sliders to max and lower military spending and stockpiles except for construction. That usually solves the money issue but I'm worried about the fact that I'm max taxing and max tariffing my people until at least the 1860’s.
Q: Is this having bad effects/implications on my Empire for later in the game or is this something everyone does?
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2.) When I do civilize/westernize (while still separate from the other Japanese lands and Shogun) I try to build some factories to get industry score and setup early industry. (I read somewhere about how important it is to do that early on and to get cement/steel factories up and running.) However, I usually end up subsidizing them because they lose me money or barely make enough.
Q: Are these acceptable losses for the greater good of industry score and preparation for unification/industrialization or am I doing this all wrong?
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3.) Once I have westernized and United all of Japan, I usually start building lots of factories around the country according to RGO bonus. (Glass, cement, and steel in Kyushu (due to coal). Cloth, clothing, and later synthetic dyes in Chugoku. (due to cotton.) Lumber, furniture, paper, and later luxury furniture in Shikoku. (due to wood and later acquisition of tropical wood and chain of furniture buildings.) Luxury clothes in Kanto (I'm torn to putting all the clothing building in Kanto due to the presence of silk and higher population or in Chugoku due to the presence of cotton.) And steel, fertilizer, and all the armaments industries like artillery, ammo, explosives, and firearms in Tohoku. (due to the presence of Sulphur and steel.) For Kansai and Chubu, I usually make more factories of stuff I need more of if I have any resources left like bottling/beverages, canneries, and more furniture factories. And for Okinawa, Hokkaido, and Sakhalin they have low population so I make steel and machine parts in the first two (because of iron) and only cement in Sakhalin because of coal and later fuel factory when it gets oil.
Q: Does this make sense and work or is there a more efficient method of setting up industry? This kind of leads to my next question because…
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4.) When I inevitably switch over to a liberal government (due to political pressure or rushing reforms) with free trade/laissez faire trade and economic policy the A.I. often times deletes a bunch of factories only to rebuild them (or different ones) in states without the corresponding RGO’s. Like deleting the fertilizer factory in Tohoku even though it has Sulphur in that state and rebuilding it in Kansai which doesn’t have any Sulphur. Its frustrating to see it happen within the first year of switching to the new government and even when I only research commerce/industry techs to help it feels like the A.I. still just destroys good mid/high level factories only to build them in other states.
Q: Despite these issues is it still worth it to switch to free trade mid/laissez faire governments in the mid to late game? Or even with these little oddities and weird A.I. behavior does the benefits to economy (and the awesome trade policy you get that gives tax bonus and tech research benefits) outweigh the bad? Or am I just doing something wrong here with my pops or factories?
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5.) My fifth question relates to my first in that, once I have westernized, united Japan, and have capital saved up I proceed to build factories, get early railroads up, (if I researched it at this point the Naval Doctrine tech) build Navy ports in every state, and build at least 3-4 armies to attack China/Korea with asap. (1 army = 8 inf, 10 arty, 2 Hussar) At this point I still have max taxes on everyone but I lower tariffs to 0% unless I’m going bankrupt. My previous play style involved staying conservative/protectionism, use the most extreme tariff efficiency trade policy decision, and max taxing and max tariffing everyone for a couple decades (like 1880’s/1890’s) until I had a ton of money saved up and then switch to 0% tariffs and start lower the taxes for my people unless I start going bankrupt. (I first start with lowering the rich tax as low as I can, after that the Middle tax, and then the lower-class tax.) I find that unless I have provinces that give rare metals (mega $) or indemnities from China via Treaty port I usually can’t afford to have lowest taxes and 0% tariffs on pops.
Q: My question is, how long should you rely on max tariffs or really any percentage of tariffs at all beyond the early game and into the mid and late game?
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6.) With the most recent HPM version (or one I missed) I think the Japanese governments were changed a bit. I haven’t checked/compared all of them to their past iterations but the biggest difference I noticed was that the socialist government is changed now so that you can no longer get the Orthodox liberal school trade bonus from the ‘change trade policy’ decision.
(The Conservative Jingoist Government has residency citizenship policy, protectionism trade policy, and state capitalism economic policy. Can lower tax rate to 25% The Socialist Government has Protectionism trade policy, Planned Economy economic policy, Full citizenship policy. Can lower tax rate to 50% And the Liberal Government has Free Trade policy, Laissez Faire economic policy, and Limited citizenship policy. Can lower tax rate to 0%)
I used to always end up switching over to socialist government because I loved the combination of +10% assimilation from Full citizenship, +20% tax/administration efficiency and +5.0% research to commerce, culture, and industry from Orthodox Liberal school via trade policy decision. (I believe the old socialist government had access to Orthodox liberal school due to having the ‘free trade’ economic policy.)
Q: Now with these changes (which I assume were done for maybe balancing or historical reasons. I’m left wondering which government type is the most efficient? It seems like it comes down to Liberal vs. Socialist governments. I have been using the Liberal government a lot late game but due to sometimes questionable ai decisions on building/destroying factories, changing factory hiring priority (making the pops move around factories so much I essentially have some number of craftsmen/clerks unemployed despite having ample factory space), and only having limited citizenship I can’t help but feel that it is a bit lacking compared to the previous version’s socialist government. (Having full citizenship + free trade/Orthodox liberal trade policy + still being able to build your own factories.)
7.) My Seventh question is technically two questions regarding POP percentages. There are many different POPs like capitalists, craftsmen, clerks, etc.
Q1: In a perfect world geared towards efficiency, what is the most efficient ratio % of POPs? For example, I had read on other threads that in every state you want 3%-4% intellectuals (clergymen in vanilla) depending on your starting literacy, 0.20% capitalists (although I have gone as high as 0.30% -0.50% sometimes. It seems to cap out around 0.70%), 30% craftsmen, 6% clerks (many people gave a ratio of 20% or 1/5th regarding how many clerks vs. how many craftsmen. i.e. 30 divided by 5 = 6), and maxing out the officers at or around their in-game cap of 0.20. Leaving soldiers somewhere between 2%-their max cap 5%.
I have not yet found an agreed % of aristocrats, laborers, and farmers. I have never messed with those POPs via setting the population focus on them but I sometime find weird shenanigans happening like mid to late game Hokkaido having 0% aristocrats. I am unsure if I should even worry about focusing their promotion or ignoring them.
Q2: Is it better to focus on building factories in provinces that have low value RGO’s like grain, fruit, fish, etc. so you can focus on encouraging laborers/farmers/maybe aristocrats in states that have valuable RGO’s like Tea, Coal, Iron, Rubber, Sulphur, etc.… (maybe building a few factories in those states for the industry score and diversification in employment.) OR (after finishing your bureaucrats, intellectuals/clergymen, and capitalists) Q: Is it fine to never bother with encouraging anything besides craftsmen and clerks and just build factories wherever as long as the appropriate RGOs are present in the states you build the factories in?
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8.) My final two question involve most of my previous questions except regarding colonies in general. After reading various forum post talking about colonies in Victoria 2 it seems that there are roughly two camps of player views on colonies. The First group players simply see and use them as, well, colonies. As in, they are pieces of land you own, that hold a people that are not your own, that provide you with RGO’s for your factories or things like tea/coffee that sell well and help your own POP’s get their needs, and soldier POP’s to increase the size of your army.
The Second group doesn’t necessarily disagree with the first group but they actively make decisions and try to do everything in their power to turn the colonies into full-fledged states. As Japan I usually am able to acquire various pieces of mainland China, Taiwan, Korea, Northern Sakhalin, Manchuria, Indo-China, and sometimes various southeast Asian Dutch colonies. However, in the games I have done recently I have only been able to make Sakhalin and sometimes southern Manchuria into states.
Q1: How can I assist my colonies in becoming states? I have heard some people say that encouraging immigrants or farmers/laborers in the colonies help. Or that you should encourage intellectuals(clergymen) and bureaucrats. But it feels like these methods either don’t work or take a disproportionately long time to affect the colonies. Besides population focuses I imagine having limited or full citizenship policy for the assimilation bonus, researching the literacy techs for the literacy and colonial migration bonus, and maybe even changing your National Value at the start of the game to one that encourages colonial migration or assimilation would help?
Q2: As a Japanese player (or any prospecting colonizing power), is it better to or even possible to make your colonies states? Or is it simply impossible to turn them into states or just not worth it?
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If you have read this far then I thank you for your time and would be most interested in anything you have to share for an answer or useful insight to this beautiful yet sometimes wondrously confusing game. =)
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2020.08.29 13:50 nstav13 Feudal Japan - Common Setting Discussions

A common trait Assassin’s Creed groups have is the constant theorizing about future settings, because historical tourism is one of the best parts of the series. This series of posts will act as a counter to my Mildly Obscure setting discussions, but rather than looking at a single point, I will be taking a broad setting that is popular and looking at several potential settings to explore within it. Today’s setting is the highly requested setting, Feudal Japan.
Before I get into the history of the periods, I want to explain Japan’s geography for those unaware. Japan is not a single Island but several. The main country of Japan is made up of 4 main islands. Honshu is the largest of these and makes up the middle part and the majority of the country. Just to the northeast is Hokkaido, however, this island was mainly lived on by the Ainu people, who were partially subjugated by northern Shoguns during the Edo period, but never fully conquered. To the southwest of Honshu is Shikoku, and just to the west of that is Kyushu. For fans of pokemon, the region of Kanto is based on the real region of Kanto where Tokyo is. Johto is based on Chubu, both of which are on Honshu. Hoenn is based on Kyushu, and Sinnoh is based on Hokkaido. To the south of Kyushu is the Ryukyu island chain which extends down to Taiwan and contains Okinawa. To the north of Hokkaido is the Sakhalin Island which currently belongs to Russia and sits between Manchuria and the Kamchatka Peninsula. The Kuril islands extend up from Hokkaido to the Kamchatka Peninsula. Also for reference, there may be vaults or important PoE around Osaka and Okinawa.
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Kamakura Period
Following a coup d'etat in 1179, the Heian Period of Japan gave way to the rule of the Kamakura Shogunate beginning the Feudal period. The Shogunate would dominate the majority of Honshu, Shikoku, and Kyushu and rule from the city of Kamakura. Over the next 150 years, Japan would flourish as the population boomed, disease rates fell, more people moved to the cities, Buddhism became a major religion. The Mongols famously attempted to invade, but rather than focus on that like Ghost of Tsushima, I want to focus on the downfall of the prosperous time.
Samurai as a class began during the end of the Heian period and has played a significant role in the stability of the Kamakura. During this time they acted more as hired guards for individuals who could pay. Following the failed invasions of the Mongols, the economy had been drained and many landowners could no longer afford their rates leading to bands of roving Ronin. During this time of unrest, the former emperor Go-Saga declared on his death-bed in 1272 that his sons should share the throne and split the empire between Northern and Southern Courts and take turns ruling. The Northern Court would place a series of 6 pretenders in power from the Hojo Clan who lacked true claim to the throne compared to the Southern Court, creating a rift between the new courts settled in Kyoto to the north and Yoshino to the South.
In 1318 Emperor Go-Daigo from the Southern Court would take the throne and in 1330 openly rebelled against the Kamakura Shogunate by making his son the heir to the throne. The Shogunate exiled him, but loyalist forces from Kusonoki Masahige, Ashikaga Takauji, and Nitta Yoshisada would work in defense of Go-Diago. Yoshisada would march on Kamakura, and take the city, leading the Hojo clan to flee to a nearby temple and commit suicide. Believing himself victorious, Go-Diago enacted the Kenmu Restoration in 1333 to remove power from The Shoguns and their Shugos that controlled shogunates and give it to a single Emperor. Ashikaga Takauji would betray Go-Diago forming his own Shogunate and using his power to side with the Northern Court to wage war against the Southern Court. Following the Battle of Minatogawa in 1336, Go-Diago would be forced to flee Kyoto and reaffirmed the southern Capital at Yoshino. The Northern and Southern Courts would continue to fight for another 60 years during the period that would come to be known as the Nanboku-cho period, making way for the Muromachi Bakufu. Interestingly, many of the major leaders of the South (Ashikaga Takauji, Go-Daigo, Kusunoki Masashige, Nitta Yoshisada, and Kitabata Akiie) all died between 1336-1339. It could be interesting to argue that the Southern Court was largely ruled by Templars and Ashikaga Takauji would begin to fight them after realizing this. That said, while assassins were aware of Japan during these events, it’s unclear in lore if they had roots in Japan, as other lore indicates that European Templars and Assassins recruited new people in Japan towards the end of the Sengoku Jidai.
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Onin War
In 1464 the Ashikaga Shogunate had been in control for about 70 years, but the death of the Shogun Yoshimasa left the dominant Shogunate without a leader. Yoshimasa’s brother would leave the life of a Monk to become the Shogun, only to learn that Yoshimasa’s wife Hino Tomiko had secretly given birth to a son, Yoshihisa. The upset of who would become Shogun led several Shugo-Daimos to raise arms in defense of their side, primarily seen in the Ashikaga, Hosokawa, and Hatakeyama Shogunates against Yamana, Ouchi, and Isshiki in southern Japan. Battles raged against each other for 10 years, nearly destroying Kyoto, leaving it largely to be ransacked by thieves and looters. The major Daimyos Hosokawa Katsumoto and Yamana Sozen who had started the war due to economic and ascension questions died during the course of the war, and yet the battles raged on. The fighting would even spread to other Shogunates that initially had nothing to do with the war due to the creation of a power vacuum as the Ashikaga Shogunate collapsed.
The war officially ended in 1477 when the Ouchi Clan left Kyoto, though it failed to stop fighting and rebellions that would continually pop up throughout Japan as it had now entered its warring states period. There’s no current AC lore on this period. And honestly, a game like this may be best as a game like Odyssey or Black Flag. A main character like a Ronin without a real side to care about, instead of taking jobs and fighting in wars throughout Japan for money, and maybe how this individual would come to join the assassins. Or maybe we could see a jaded assassin exploit the situation and need for samurai for money.
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Sengoku Jidai
Ladies and gentlemen, here comes the general, the moment you’ve been waiting for, here comes the general, the pride of Owari, here comes the general, ODA NOBUNAGA!
Outnumbered, outmanned, outgunned but not out planned, Oda Nobunaga united the Owari province only for it to be invaded by Imagawa Yoshimoto who was marching to take the role of Shogun in Kyoto. During this advance, one of Imagawa’s retainers, the son of a small Daimyo, Matsudaira Motoyasu was sent on a separate mission to besiege and capture the fortress of Marune. During this, Oda’s scouts found where Yoshimoto’s forces were camped, an army of 25,000 would overwhelm Oda’s force of 3,000. So in the cover of the night and rain, they began their surprise attack and Battle of Okehazama, killing Imagawa Yoshimoto and scattering his forces. During the battle, Nobunaga noticed the valiant efforts of a young peasant man, Kinoshita Tokichiro. Due to the recent import of the Portuguese Arquebus, the Samurai had begun to focus less on heredity and more and more peasants began to rise up the socio-economic ladder through combat prowess with the new weapons. With this was the rise of Ashigaru as light infantry. Motoyasu, hearing of the tactics from Nobunaga marched his troops out of Owari to Okazaki Castle where he secretly allied himself with Nobunaga as his family was held hostage in Sumpu.
I do want to note that while Samurai were very skilled in various jutsus (these are arts or techniques that would be taught, primarily focusing on different martial arts and combat, such as kenjutsu which was sword fighting), the code of Bushido had not been fully developed at this time. This meant that some Samurai were even trained in ninjutsu or the art of the ninjas. The new ninjas and Samurai were not at odds with each other ideologically at this time, but rather most of the time just were hired for opposing purposes. Samurai were essentially bodyguards on retainer used for war. Shinobi were hired for purposes of spying and espionage, and would likely come against Samurai who were guarding their targets. Hattori Hanzo is the most famous of the samurai who was also trained as a ninja, and around this time, European Assassins reached out to him and several other Ninja to become assassins in response to European Templars creating a formal rite including at least Mochizuki Chiyome, who appeared to be a kunoichi. In 1561 Oda Nobunaga formalized his relationships with Taken Shingen and Azai Nagamasa through the marriage of his children. During this, Motoyasu formally announced his alliance with Nobunaga and led siege to the Fortress of Kaminogo while Hattori Hanzo led a small group of forces to sneak inside and capture the wife and child of the Castle Owner, which he used to bargain for the release of Motoyasu’s wife and son.
The next several years were marked by the Mino Campaign where Kinoshita eventually garnered more respect and was put in charge of a castle and bestowed upon him the name Hideyoshi. Nobunaga would lay siege to Inabayama Castle in 1567, ending the Mino Campaign. In 1568 he was approached Ashikaga Yoshiaki to march on Kyoto and install him as Shogun and remove his brother’s killer. Yoshiaki immediately began to plot to remove Nobunaga after being installed, working with a new band of peasants that were against the Samurai rule called the Ikko-ikki. In 1570 Nobunaga would be attacked on multiple fronts by the Ikko-Ikki, Azai, Ashikaga, and Asakura clans. To counter the Ikko-Ikki a 10-year long siege began on Ishiyama Hongan-ji Fortress, which would bring Nobunaga into conflict with the Mori Clan, the leader of whom would be assassinated by Hattori Hanzo the following year. In 1573 the Siege of Odani and Ichijodani Castles would lead to the suicide of the Azai and Asakura clans. The Ashikaga would move west towards Matsudaira who took the name Tokugawa Ieyasu. Nobunaga would move west to face the Takeda clan and Ashikaga. Shingen Takeda would be killed by Hattori Hanzo in 1573 as well after Hanzo attempted to retrieve a Sword of Eden which passed to Nobunaga. The Ashikaga would be completely destroyed and the Takeda clan would fight Tokugawa and Nobunaga for another 7 years.
In 1579 Tokugawa Ieyasu executed his wife and made his first son commit Seppuku due to allegations they plotted to assassinate Nobunaga. Despite this, Hideyoshi became the favored General for Nobunaga. In 1582 word reached Hattori Hanzo that ally of Nobunaga, Akechi Mitsuhide, planned to betray and assassinate Nobunaga. Hattori sent the assassin Yamauchi Taka to attempt to stop the plot and retrieve the Sword of Eden. Nobunaga was killed, but the sword was taken to Chinese Assassin Liu Yan who took the sword back to China. The Death of Nubanaga led Hideyoshi to lead the battle of Yamazaki against Akechi who was killed by bandits after fleeing the battle (though this could be an interesting assassination mission). Hideyoshi now attempted to take control of the armies of Nobunaga but was blocked by Oda Nobukatsu (the son of Oda Nobunaga) who allied with Tokugawa Ieyasu. This led to the battle of Komaki and Nagakute which while indecisive, led the men to prop up Hideyoshi as Nobunaga’s successor.
From 1585 to 1590 Hideyoshi took the surname Toyotomi and led several successive campaigns of Negoro-ji, Shikoku, Toyama, Kyushu, and Odawara which crushed the Hojo clan and unified Japan. Beginning in 1592, Toyotomi set his eyes on Korea, launching 2 successive invasions, both were clear failures. In 1596, Hattori Hanzo was killed by his rival Fuma Kotaro but an investigation from the Assassins led them to believe that Hideyoshi had been the reason for the murder. As a result, Yamauchi Taka infiltrated his palace in 1598 and assassinated Hideyoshi (though in real life he died due to a bad illness).
In 1599, Tokugawa Ieyasu claimed to be the new ruler of Japan. He took control of Osaka Castle where Hideyori, the son of Hideyoshi stayed, angering several regents. This was largely headed by Ishida Mitsunari. Followers of Ieyasu attempted to assassinate him but only caused Mitsunari to flee and build a large army. In 1600 this led to a massive clash with the eastern Army led by Ieyasu having 75,000 men, while the western army led by Mitsunari had 120,000. Yamauchi Taka participated in the battle and assassinated Shima Sakon, a high ranking samurai under Mitsunari. Mitsunari’s army began to crumble, and as the army retreated, he and several high ranking western officials were captured. Mitsunari was executed in Kyoto later that year. In 1603 with next to no opposition, Ieyasu formed the Tokugawa Shogunate beginning the Edo period due to moving the capital from Kyoto to Edo. Hideyori continued to draw support from Samurai as Ieyasu restructured Japan’s class system, leading to Ieyasu to lay siege to the Castle of Osaka and those that supported Hideyori. Hideyori died during the siege, and with no one challenging the Tokugawa Shogunate, the Sengoku Jidai came to a close.
The biggest issue with a game in this period is how long of a time it is (nearly 60 years) and how much lore exists from Assassin’s Creed Memories. I think the best solution would probably be to play as a pair of assassins, like a father-son duo, and have one of them be a close ally of Hattori Hanzo and Yamauchi Taka so we can see a couple of the big assassinations and still have the freedom to do other things.
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Meiji Restoration
After another century of warfare, court officials around Emperor Komei were pushing for more open trade with the outside world like the United States. In 1867, Komei’s son, Meiji came to the throne and pushed for a return of imperial power, including forming a new currency. Within a few months, the 15th Shogun, Tokugawa Yoshinobu, of the Tokugawa Shogunate stepped down at the request of the Emperor. The Emperor formally announced the collapse of the Tokugawa Shogunate on the 3rd of January, 1868, and announced the return to imperial power. Ronin from Satsuma began harassing Yoshinobu, and as a result, he sent a force of 15,000 men to attack Kyoto and were stopped near Fushimi by a coalition of 5000 Satsuma and Choshu Samurai.
The loss of the battle led Yoshinobu to flee from Osaka to Edo, winning the naval Battle of Awa but allowed for the pro-Imperial forces to destroy Osaka castle and take the city. In early February, foreign ministers in the harbor of Hyogo declared the Tokugawa Shogunate to be the legitimate rulers of Japan. This was reversed when Emperor Meiji declared they’d be safe to travel and trade in Japan, but that only caused anti-foreign sentiment to grow from the pro-Imperial side, causing several attacks on foreign ministers from samurai, especially samurai from Tosa. Despite some early intervention from France to help Yoshinobu, foreign ministers agreed in early March to not choose sides in the Boshin War. In May of 1868, the Battle of Katsunuma left Edo completely surrounded. Not all samurai surrendered though, leading the Battle of Ueno on July 4th, 1868.
Despite Yoshinobu’s surrender and retirement in July, a staunch anti-Imperial faction was growing since May primarily headed by the Aizu clan and sought to disrupt the northern provinces. Between May and November, the Aizu and their supporters continually lost ground and battles, surrendering on November 6th, 10 days after Edo had been renamed to Tokyo, beginning the Meiji Era. Yoshinobu’s Admiral Enomoto Takeaki fled from Honshu and moved North to the island of Hokkaido with several thousand troops and a handful of French allies. They fortified the southern Peninsula and separated their samurai under 4 French Brigades and 8.5 Japanese Brigades. They then founded the Ezo Republic based on America and reach out to the United States, Russia, and France to gain international recognition, but failed. Starting in December, a 7 month series of battles known as the Battle of Hakodate ensued, eventually ending in the collapse of the Ezo Republic.
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2020.05.05 09:46 Econcrypt Energy Web Token - The most adopted ecosystem in blockchain and you've never even heard of it!

Energy Web Token
This isn’t a short read so let me start with the tl;dr; there is an in-depth post after this part
There are so many shill posts on Reddit for when a $1bn company adopts a certain blockchain project or uses an ecosystem, well I’m bringing you 2000x that… and you’ve probably never even heard of it. The companies that form the EW ecosystem collectively turnover in excess of $2tn per year. The companies that host nodes on EW chain turnover approx. $650bn each year.
Simply put, the Energy Web Chain is a platform and ecosystem for the energy markets.
Energy Web Validators expect to have a third of all Wind, Solar and biomass producing devices on-chain by 2030, over 250m assets (solar panels, wind generators etc.) in a sector that is predicted to be worth $13tn by 2050.
*The hype factor: *
Less than 200 investor wallets
Unofficial TG group was only founded a few days ago
THERE WAS NO ICO OR IEO, you’re not going to get Shell market dumping on you and this is why it was so under the radar.
You can fact check everything I say here - the project is open source.
Right let’s get stuck into it…
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What is the Energy Web Foundation?
https://www.energyweb.org/work-with-us/our-affiliate-ecosystem/
Firstly, lets start with who actually orchestrated the creation of the EW Chain and Ecosystem, the Energy Web Foundation in partnership with the Rocky Mountain Institute.
The Energy Web Foundation is a global not-for-profit organization that creates open sourced, decentralized software around their blockchain ecosystem, the Energy Web Chain.
In just a couple of years, The Energy Web Foundation has managed to grow the largest energy blockchain ecosystem comprising utilities, grid operators, renewable energy developers, corporate energy buyers and others. More on this later.
What is the Energy Web Chain?
The Energy Web Chain is a public, enterprise-grade blockchain platform designed for the energy sector’s regulatory, operational and market needs.
The energy market is extremely regulated and as such the PoS mechanism that Eth is deploying was not deemed adequate for the energy market by the regulators. Therefore, the energy web chain works on an amended version of Ethereum (it is not ERC-20!) which leverages Proof of Authority - only global energy companies can host nodes to validate the chain - more on validators later.
Launched in mid-2019, it has become the industry’s leading choice as the foundational digital infrastructure on which to build and run blockchain-based decentralized applications (dApps).
Anybody can create a dApp on EW Chain, and the team are currently tracking 17 dApps that are scheduled to migrate across to main-net. Currently “The Energy Origin” dApp built by Engie is live - more on this later!
You can check out their explorer here:
Main-net: https://explorer.energyweb.org Test-net: https://volta-explorer.energyweb.org
https://medium.com/@HSVGTS/energy-web-review-the-grids-new-digital-dna-86f80217634d
Most current AMA
https://medium.com/@HSVGTS/energy-web-community-ama-1-april-2020-e63650df0f48
Validators Overview
Full list of validators here:
validators.energyweb.org
Some of the validators for the chain for those that don’t like links:
Shell EDF Engie Total PTT Fluvius Elia Group Stedin Centrica
These companies host nodes to support the network.
Ecosystem overview
Shell - $388B
PTT - $53B
Tepco - $63B
Total - $209B
Exelon - $36B
State Grid Ev service (subsidiary of State Grid Corp of China) - $363B
Acciona - $8B
Chubu - $22B
Stedin - $1.2B
EnBW - $25B
EDF - $75B
Engie - $65B
Eneco - $4.5B
Siemens - $94B
SP Group - $4.1B
Tenaska - $11.9B
Wipro - $7.7B
PG&G - $17.7B
Centrica - $37.1B
AGL - $8.1B
APG - $1.2B
AES - $10.7B
Sum = $1.5tn of revenue between the 22 largest companies that make up the ecosystem.
Goal of the Energy Web ecosystem and maths behind their growth predictions:
“Our goal is to reduce 10 gigatons of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from the energy sector over the next decade by onboarding over 225 million low-carbon energy assets into applications supported by EW-DOS. This will result in 870 GW of additional renewable generation capacity and 515 GW of low-carbon demand-side flexibility. Together, these equal more than the entire installed electricity generating capacity of the United States.”
https://medium.com/energy-web-insights/digitalization-means-decarbonization-4e4b1af21d63
“we project one-third of total wind, solar, and biomass resources (in terms of installed capacity) to issue EACs via platforms built on Origin by 2030, increasing from 0% today.”
“As shown below, achieving our goals (at least 870 GW of additional renewable generation and 515 GW of DER / DR capacity) will require onboarding roughly 225 million assets into EW-DOS.”
This equals a lot of on-chain activity.
So that briefly covers the chain and ecosystem, which anybody can create dApps on, but where is EWF’s value add?
The Energy Web Foundation has created two toolkits to help companies build on the Energy Web chain, these are detailed below:
Energy Web Origin- (NOT THE SAME AS THE ENERGY ORIGIN - THE DAPP BY ENGIE)
The EW Origin suite of SDKs supports existing and emerging renewable energy and carbon markets to simplify and enhance the issuance, tracking and buying/selling of energy attribute certificates (EACs), including renewable energy certificates (RECs), guarantees of origin (GOs) and international I-RECs.
Energy Web Flex-
The EW Flex suite of SDKs enable grid operators including vertically integrated utilities, distribution system operators (DSOs) and transmission system operators (TSOs) to integrate distributed energy resources (DERs) into energy markets and demand flexibility programs.
Energy Web Token
The platform is powered by the Energy Web Token (EWT) which is an evolution of Ethereum. The EWF recognized that Ethereum wasn’t suitable for the energy sector, which requires higher TPS for devices and higher security, in line with regulation.
So what is the use of the token?
First off, in a recent AMA, Jesse (CTO) said this;
Q- Can you confirm all Validators do in fact have to buy and sell tokens from exchanges or is there another process open to get EWT, like OTC?
A- The only place where tokens can be bought or sold are the exchanges where EWT is listed. This is why the Energy Web team is working on getting EWT listed on additional exchanges so more people have access to EWT (more announcements on additional exchanges coming soon).
The team have also said;
“It is likely that validators that are running use cases will not be able to generate all tokens needed by themself, so they’ll need to buy”.
So companies that need tokens, must buy (in the future via a treasury service) from exchanges.
Intrinsic uses;
Validator compensation - to pay for transaction fees and block rewards Chain security - to protect the network against transaction execution misbehaviour
Extrinsic uses;
Collateral - to enhance trust at the app level, e.g. in representations Community fund - 38m tokens put aside for further software development, bounties etc.
Volume based approach to value- Small fees, large numbers of transactions.
Currently 3m monthly transactions on test-net with this anticipated to grow exponentially as more value is pushed through the system and 250m devices are added.
EWT is currently listed on Liquid and from the 7th May will be listed on BitMart.
Supply & Market Cap
Total supply: 100m
Circulating supply: 46m
25m of that currently sits within the ecosystem with the energy companies.
21m is outside from the affiliate sales.
Current market cap is therefore $92m
Let me guess, its put you off somewhat?
Some of the validators for the chain:
Shell TEPCO EDF Engie Total PTT Centrica
Companies within the ecosystem have a combined revenue of approx. $2tn a year and they have COMMITTED to using the ecosystem.
The chain is 9 months old, has averaged 3m transactions per month on testnet and 17 apps are in production for mainnet, with one already live.
Companies above are set to capture a third of the total market for renewables, with the devices pledged to run on-chain.
Compare this to any other blockchain platform and then tell me it’s overvalued.
Also worth noting that LINK has never had a market cap lower than $49m, it’s comparable. (BTW cool fact - LINK provides the oracle services for EW Chain)
Current Apps and Those in Development
TEO by Engie
The Energy Origin by Engine is the first app released on Mainnet, Engie are a $65B French global energy company.
The Energy Origin (TEO) is a startup incubated within Engie since September 2018 accompanying customers towards the 3 X 100% goals for the future of energy systems “100% renewables, 100% time, 100% local”. TEO focuses on turning energy data into clear, compelling and trustable products through the use of Blockchain Technology. TEO commercializes an innovative solution to certify green energy production and consumption allowing customers to choose where their green electricity comes from and trace it back to its origin.
The TEO dApp leverages blockchain to improve the traceability and transparency of green energy, while also expanding the capabilities of supply-demand matching between renewable generators and corporate buyers, such as by choosing green energy on the basis of type of renewable energy, geographic distance from a given facility, and amount of carbon offsets.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMUwZBCH7_Y&feature=emb_title
https://www.energyweb.org/2019/09/19/blockchain-teo-the-energy-origin-is-the-first-application-to-migrate-onto-the-energy-web-chain/
PTT Thailand
The second app that is scheduled to go live on mainnet is built by Thai Energy company PTT, revenue $53B. Due to go live in May 2020.
“Bangkok, Thailand, and Zug, Switzerland — September 11, 2019 — Today, Thailand-based multinational energy conglomerate PTT and global energy blockchain nonprofit Energy Web Foundation (EWF) jointly announced the development of a new blockchain-based renewables platform. The application will be built on the Energy Web Chain and leverage the EW Origin family of open-source software development toolkits to create a regional solution compliant with the International REC Standard (I-REC).”
“PTT is responding to strong corporate demand for renewable energy certificate (REC) options in Thailand and the broader ASEAN region. Multinational corporations are looking to buy regionally sourced RECs matched to their demand from existing and new facilities in the region.”
“To date, Thailand and the ASEAN market more generally have largely been an untapped market for I-RECs. In 2018, some 1.2 billion energy attribute certificates (EACs) were traded globally. Yet renewable energy certificates (RECs) in the United States and guarantees of origin (GOs) in Europe accounted for the overwhelming majority of global EAC market activity. The ASEAN region only had about 5 million MWh of certified I-RECs, which represents less than one-half of one percent of global EAC markets.”
https://siliconangle.com/2019/09/11/energy-web-foundation-joins-thailand-power-company-renewables-blockchain/
https://www.energyweb.org/2019/09/11/ptt-and-energy-web-foundation-launch-blockchain-based-renewables-platform-for-thailand-asean-japan/
Shell
Shell wholly owned subsidiary Sonnen are building a digital power plant on the the EWF ecosystem. (Shell themselves are a validator)
“Zug, Switzerland — March 12, 2020 — Today the Energy Web Foundation (EWF) announced that the sonnen Group (sonnen) has unveiled a new virtual power plant (VPP) in northeastern Germany that leverages the Energy Web Chain and the EW Origin suite of software development toolkits (SDKs). A network of distributed residential energy storage systems comprise the VPP, which is used to absorb surplus wind generation and thus avoid curtailment of renewable energy by charging the batteries when wind energy is abundant.”
“With a flexibility market for renewable energies and the automatic exchange of supply and demand via the digital exchange ‘EW Origin,’ we are realising the next step towards a smart grid that can deal much more flexibly with fluctuations from renewable energy,” says Jean-Baptiste Cornefert, Managing Director of sonnen eServices. “Virtual power plants such as those from sonnen are the technical building block for this power grid that has been missing up to now and can help to ensure that less green energy is lost.”
“The sonnen Group is one of the world’s leading manufacturers of smart energy storage systems and a pioneer of clean, decentralized and networked energy system technologies. As one of the fastest growing tech companies in Europe, sonnen has received numerous internationally recognized awards. With its virtual battery, which consists of digitally networked home storage systems, sonnen offers new and highly innovative energy services for network operators and customers. sonnen’s products are available in many countries and has offices located in Germany, Italy, Australia, the UK and the USA. Since March 2019 sonnen is a wholly owned subsidiary of Shell within its New Energies division.”
https://www.forbes.com/sites/benjaminpirus/2019/07/16/shell-sees-importance-in-blockchain-plans-to-harness-ewf-public-chain/#2996bbd024d0
https://blocktribune.com/sonnen-launches-virtual-power-plant-in-germany-using-energy-web-foundations-blockchain/
SP Group
Singapore’s SP Group launched one of the world’s first blockchain-powered renewable energy certificate (REC) marketplace.
The SP marketplace supports local, regional and international RECs which domestic and overseas buyers can access.
SP decided to implement a blockchain-based solution to offer an improved system compared to their competitors. The utility firm hopes that blockchain can furnish better security, integrity and traceability.
SP’s Chief Digital Officer, Samuel Tan, said, “Through blockchain technology, we enable companies to trade in renewable energy certificates conveniently, seamlessly and securely, helping them achieve greener business operations and meet their sustainability targets.”
Mike Power, COO of Technology and Operations, at DBS added: “As Southeast Asia’s largest bank, we recognize the leadership role we can play in promoting sustainable development, including supporting innovations in renewable energy. SP Group’s blockchain REC platform will make it more economically effective for organizations and will catalyze the transition towards a low carbon economy. “
The project will also help Singapore achieve its low carbon targets as part of the Paris COP-21 climate change agreement.
Others that I could easily find…
Minna
Japanese utility company announced they completed a joint test of blockchain for the renewables market on EW Chain.
Electron - In the field of cybersecurity, Electron, a British startup, is developing a smart meter registration platform for gas and electricity and is researching advanced encryption techniques for smart meters [85].
Stedin
Energy21 and Stedin have a blockchain solution that enables local energy markets to transact with each other and with wholesale energy markets. This forms a layered energy system that links local energy markets and microgrids to wider national markets taking a system and market-based approach rather than depending on P2P energy transactions.
Grid Singularity
Based in Austria, Grid Singularity aims to provide several blockchain solutions for the energy sector, including trading of green certificates [213]. Grid Singularity is a founding member of the Energy Web Foundation [72]. Grid Singularity, a founding member of the Energy Web Foundation, is also working on providing smart grid management solutions
EvolvePower
EvolvePower develops blockchain solutions for energy utility companies and grid operators, enabling them to get better visibility, access and control over data at the grid edge.
Slock.IT (In partnership with Siemens, Innogy and Samsung)
In Germany, Slock.it aims to develop IoT applications and a platform for sharing economy, named the Universal Sharing Network [222]. They have partnered with Siemens, Innogy RWE and Samsung and are currently supporting various research projects that aim to accelerate the development of Ethereum and smart contracts technologies.
OLI
Based in the US, Oli is focusing in optimisation of energy system components, such as single power plants, demand services, storage providers but also more complex energy systems comprising multiple components.
Wirepas
Wirepas, the IoT provider, has been testing blockchain technologies in collaboration with the Energy Web Foundation. They aim to connect IoT devices to distributed ledgers, especially devices deployed on the consumer side or the grid edge [233].
Share&Charge
platform developed by Innogy Motionwerk and Slock.it, allows P2P transactions between EV drivers and private EV charging infrastructure owners. The EV charging stations network runs on public Ethereum and smart contracts. Innogy has launched hundreds of EV charging stations across Germany since May 2017 [236].
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A complete list of all articles written by community member, HSV.
https://medium.com/@HSVGTS/a-complete-list-of-all-medium-articles-i-have-wrote-with-regards-to-energy-web-8fc48118acb1?source=friends_link&sk=3b1d55818fa5093e224375814e657ab5
Some Interesting Links
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1364032118307184
https://www.ledgerinsights.com/enterprise-blockchain-ibm-platform-aws-azure/
https://medium.com/@HSVGTS/energy-web-community-ama-1-april-2020-e63650df0f48
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0gT7axdXfA
https://medium.com/@HSVGTS/energy-web-review-the-grids-new-digital-dna-86f80217634d
https://medium.com/energy-web-insights/digitalization-means-decarbonization-4e4b1af21d63
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2020.05.05 09:45 Econcrypt Energy Web Token - The most adopted token in blockchain and you've never heard of it!

Energy Web Token
This isn’t a short read so let me start with the tl;dr; there is an in-depth post after this part
You can fact check everything I say here - the project is open source.
Right let’s get stuck into it…
——————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————------------------------------
What is the Energy Web Foundation?
https://www.energyweb.org/work-with-us/our-affiliate-ecosystem/
Firstly, lets start with who actually orchestrated the creation of the EW Chain and Ecosystem, the Energy Web Foundation in partnership with the Rocky Mountain Institute.
The Energy Web Foundation is a global not-for-profit organization that creates open sourced, decentralized software around their blockchain ecosystem, the Energy Web Chain.
In just a couple of years, The Energy Web Foundation has managed to grow the largest energy blockchain ecosystem comprising utilities, grid operators, renewable energy developers, corporate energy buyers and others. More on this later.
What is the Energy Web Chain?
The Energy Web Chain is a public, enterprise-grade blockchain platform designed for the energy sector’s regulatory, operational and market needs.
The energy market is extremely regulated and as such the PoS mechanism that Eth is deploying was not deemed adequate for the energy market by the regulators. Therefore, the energy web chain works on an amended version of Ethereum (it is not ERC-20!) which leverages Proof of Authority - only global energy companies can host nodes to validate the chain - more on validators later.
Launched in mid-2019, it has become the industry’s leading choice as the foundational digital infrastructure on which to build and run blockchain-based decentralized applications (dApps).
Anybody can create a dApp on EW Chain, and the team are currently tracking 17 dApps that are scheduled to migrate across to main-net. Currently “The Energy Origin” dApp built by Engie is live - more on this later!
You can check out their explorer here:
Main-net: https://explorer.energyweb.org Test-net: https://volta-explorer.energyweb.org
https://medium.com/@HSVGTS/energy-web-review-the-grids-new-digital-dna-86f80217634d
Most current AMA
https://medium.com/@HSVGTS/energy-web-community-ama-1-april-2020-e63650df0f48
Validators Overview
Full list of validators here:
validators.energyweb.org
Some of the validators for the chain for those that don’t like links:
Shell EDF Engie Total PTT Fluvius Elia Group Stedin Centrica
These companies host nodes to support the network.
Ecosystem overview
Shell - $388B
PTT - $53B
Tepco - $63B
Total - $209B
Exelon - $36B
State Grid Ev service (subsidiary of State Grid Corp of China) - $363B
Acciona - $8B
Chubu - $22B
Stedin - $1.2B
EnBW - $25B
EDF - $75B
Engie - $65B
Eneco - $4.5B
Siemens - $94B
SP Group - $4.1B
Tenaska - $11.9B
Wipro - $7.7B
PG&G - $17.7B
Centrica - $37.1B
AGL - $8.1B
APG - $1.2B
AES - $10.7B
Sum = $1.5tn of revenue between the 22 largest companies that make up the ecosystem.
Goal of the Energy Web ecosystem and maths behind their growth predictions:
“Our goal is to reduce 10 gigatons of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from the energy sector over the next decade by onboarding over 225 million low-carbon energy assets into applications supported by EW-DOS. This will result in 870 GW of additional renewable generation capacity and 515 GW of low-carbon demand-side flexibility. Together, these equal more than the entire installed electricity generating capacity of the United States.”
https://medium.com/energy-web-insights/digitalization-means-decarbonization-4e4b1af21d63
“we project one-third of total wind, solar, and biomass resources (in terms of installed capacity) to issue EACs via platforms built on Origin by 2030, increasing from 0% today.”
“As shown below, achieving our goals (at least 870 GW of additional renewable generation and 515 GW of DER / DR capacity) will require onboarding roughly 225 million assets into EW-DOS.”
This equals a lot of on-chain activity.
So that briefly covers the chain and ecosystem, which anybody can create dApps on, but where is EWF’s value add?
The Energy Web Foundation has created two toolkits to help companies build on the Energy Web chain, these are detailed below:
Energy Web Origin- (NOT THE SAME AS THE ENERGY ORIGIN - THE DAPP BY ENGIE)
The EW Origin suite of SDKs supports existing and emerging renewable energy and carbon markets to simplify and enhance the issuance, tracking and buying/selling of energy attribute certificates (EACs), including renewable energy certificates (RECs), guarantees of origin (GOs) and international I-RECs.
Energy Web Flex-
The EW Flex suite of SDKs enable grid operators including vertically integrated utilities, distribution system operators (DSOs) and transmission system operators (TSOs) to integrate distributed energy resources (DERs) into energy markets and demand flexibility programs.
Energy Web Token
The platform is powered by the Energy Web Token (EWT) which is an evolution of Ethereum. The EWF recognized that Ethereum wasn’t suitable for the energy sector, which requires higher TPS for devices and higher security, in line with regulation.
So what is the use of the token?
First off, in a recent AMA, Jesse (CTO) said this;
Q- Can you confirm all Validators do in fact have to buy and sell tokens from exchanges or is there another process open to get EWT, like OTC?
A- The only place where tokens can be bought or sold are the exchanges where EWT is listed. This is why the Energy Web team is working on getting EWT listed on additional exchanges so more people have access to EWT (more announcements on additional exchanges coming soon).
The team have also said;
“It is likely that validators that are running use cases will not be able to generate all tokens needed by themself, so they’ll need to buy”.
So companies that need tokens, must buy (in the future via a treasury service) from exchanges.
Intrinsic uses;
Validator compensation - to pay for transaction fees and block rewards Chain security - to protect the network against transaction execution misbehaviour
Extrinsic uses;
Collateral - to enhance trust at the app level, e.g. in representations Community fund - 38m tokens put aside for further software development, bounties etc.
Volume based approach to value- Small fees, large numbers of transactions.
Currently 3m monthly transactions on test-net with this anticipated to grow exponentially as more value is pushed through the system and 250m devices are added.
EWT is currently listed on Liquid and from the 7th May will be listed on BitMart.
Supply & Market Cap
Total supply: 100m
Circulating supply: 46m
25m of that currently sits within the ecosystem with the energy companies.
21m is outside from the affiliate sales.
Current market cap is therefore $92m
Let me guess, its put you off somewhat?
Some of the validators for the chain:
Shell TEPCO EDF Engie Total PTT Centrica
Companies within the ecosystem have a combined revenue of approx. $2tn a year and they have COMMITTED to using the ecosystem.
The chain is 9 months old, has averaged 3m transactions per month on testnet and 17 apps are in production for mainnet, with one already live.
Companies above are set to capture a third of the total market for renewables, with the devices pledged to run on-chain.
Compare this to any other blockchain platform and then tell me it’s overvalued.
Also worth noting that LINK has never had a market cap lower than $49m, it’s comparable. (BTW cool fact - LINK provides the oracle services for EW Chain)
Current Apps and Those in Development
TEO by Engie
The Energy Origin by Engine is the first app released on Mainnet, Engie are a $65B French global energy company.
The Energy Origin (TEO) is a startup incubated within Engie since September 2018 accompanying customers towards the 3 X 100% goals for the future of energy systems “100% renewables, 100% time, 100% local”. TEO focuses on turning energy data into clear, compelling and trustable products through the use of Blockchain Technology. TEO commercializes an innovative solution to certify green energy production and consumption allowing customers to choose where their green electricity comes from and trace it back to its origin.
The TEO dApp leverages blockchain to improve the traceability and transparency of green energy, while also expanding the capabilities of supply-demand matching between renewable generators and corporate buyers, such as by choosing green energy on the basis of type of renewable energy, geographic distance from a given facility, and amount of carbon offsets.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMUwZBCH7_Y&feature=emb_title
https://www.energyweb.org/2019/09/19/blockchain-teo-the-energy-origin-is-the-first-application-to-migrate-onto-the-energy-web-chain/
PTT Thailand
The second app that is scheduled to go live on mainnet is built by Thai Energy company PTT, revenue $53B. Due to go live in May 2020.
“Bangkok, Thailand, and Zug, Switzerland — September 11, 2019 — Today, Thailand-based multinational energy conglomerate PTT and global energy blockchain nonprofit Energy Web Foundation (EWF) jointly announced the development of a new blockchain-based renewables platform. The application will be built on the Energy Web Chain and leverage the EW Origin family of open-source software development toolkits to create a regional solution compliant with the International REC Standard (I-REC).”
“PTT is responding to strong corporate demand for renewable energy certificate (REC) options in Thailand and the broader ASEAN region. Multinational corporations are looking to buy regionally sourced RECs matched to their demand from existing and new facilities in the region.”
“To date, Thailand and the ASEAN market more generally have largely been an untapped market for I-RECs. In 2018, some 1.2 billion energy attribute certificates (EACs) were traded globally. Yet renewable energy certificates (RECs) in the United States and guarantees of origin (GOs) in Europe accounted for the overwhelming majority of global EAC market activity. The ASEAN region only had about 5 million MWh of certified I-RECs, which represents less than one-half of one percent of global EAC markets.”
https://siliconangle.com/2019/09/11/energy-web-foundation-joins-thailand-power-company-renewables-blockchain/
https://www.energyweb.org/2019/09/11/ptt-and-energy-web-foundation-launch-blockchain-based-renewables-platform-for-thailand-asean-japan/
Shell
Shell wholly owned subsidiary Sonnen are building a digital power plant on the the EWF ecosystem. (Shell themselves are a validator)
“Zug, Switzerland — March 12, 2020 — Today the Energy Web Foundation (EWF) announced that the sonnen Group (sonnen) has unveiled a new virtual power plant (VPP) in northeastern Germany that leverages the Energy Web Chain and the EW Origin suite of software development toolkits (SDKs). A network of distributed residential energy storage systems comprise the VPP, which is used to absorb surplus wind generation and thus avoid curtailment of renewable energy by charging the batteries when wind energy is abundant.”
“With a flexibility market for renewable energies and the automatic exchange of supply and demand via the digital exchange ‘EW Origin,’ we are realising the next step towards a smart grid that can deal much more flexibly with fluctuations from renewable energy,” says Jean-Baptiste Cornefert, Managing Director of sonnen eServices. “Virtual power plants such as those from sonnen are the technical building block for this power grid that has been missing up to now and can help to ensure that less green energy is lost.”
“The sonnen Group is one of the world’s leading manufacturers of smart energy storage systems and a pioneer of clean, decentralized and networked energy system technologies. As one of the fastest growing tech companies in Europe, sonnen has received numerous internationally recognized awards. With its virtual battery, which consists of digitally networked home storage systems, sonnen offers new and highly innovative energy services for network operators and customers. sonnen’s products are available in many countries and has offices located in Germany, Italy, Australia, the UK and the USA. Since March 2019 sonnen is a wholly owned subsidiary of Shell within its New Energies division.”
https://www.forbes.com/sites/benjaminpirus/2019/07/16/shell-sees-importance-in-blockchain-plans-to-harness-ewf-public-chain/#2996bbd024d0
https://blocktribune.com/sonnen-launches-virtual-power-plant-in-germany-using-energy-web-foundations-blockchain/
SP Group
Singapore’s SP Group launched one of the world’s first blockchain-powered renewable energy certificate (REC) marketplace.
The SP marketplace supports local, regional and international RECs which domestic and overseas buyers can access.
SP decided to implement a blockchain-based solution to offer an improved system compared to their competitors. The utility firm hopes that blockchain can furnish better security, integrity and traceability.
SP’s Chief Digital Officer, Samuel Tan, said, “Through blockchain technology, we enable companies to trade in renewable energy certificates conveniently, seamlessly and securely, helping them achieve greener business operations and meet their sustainability targets.”
Mike Power, COO of Technology and Operations, at DBS added: “As Southeast Asia’s largest bank, we recognize the leadership role we can play in promoting sustainable development, including supporting innovations in renewable energy. SP Group’s blockchain REC platform will make it more economically effective for organizations and will catalyze the transition towards a low carbon economy. “
The project will also help Singapore achieve its low carbon targets as part of the Paris COP-21 climate change agreement.
Others that I could easily find…
Minna
Japanese utility company announced they completed a joint test of blockchain for the renewables market on EW Chain.
Electron - In the field of cybersecurity, Electron, a British startup, is developing a smart meter registration platform for gas and electricity and is researching advanced encryption techniques for smart meters [85].
Stedin
Energy21 and Stedin have a blockchain solution that enables local energy markets to transact with each other and with wholesale energy markets. This forms a layered energy system that links local energy markets and microgrids to wider national markets taking a system and market-based approach rather than depending on P2P energy transactions.
Grid Singularity
Based in Austria, Grid Singularity aims to provide several blockchain solutions for the energy sector, including trading of green certificates [213]. Grid Singularity is a founding member of the Energy Web Foundation [72]. Grid Singularity, a founding member of the Energy Web Foundation, is also working on providing smart grid management solutions
EvolvePower
EvolvePower develops blockchain solutions for energy utility companies and grid operators, enabling them to get better visibility, access and control over data at the grid edge.
Slock.IT (In partnership with Siemens, Innogy and Samsung)
In Germany, Slock.it aims to develop IoT applications and a platform for sharing economy, named the Universal Sharing Network [222]. They have partnered with Siemens, Innogy RWE and Samsung and are currently supporting various research projects that aim to accelerate the development of Ethereum and smart contracts technologies.
OLI
Based in the US, Oli is focusing in optimisation of energy system components, such as single power plants, demand services, storage providers but also more complex energy systems comprising multiple components.
Wirepas
Wirepas, the IoT provider, has been testing blockchain technologies in collaboration with the Energy Web Foundation. They aim to connect IoT devices to distributed ledgers, especially devices deployed on the consumer side or the grid edge [233].
Share&Charge
platform developed by Innogy Motionwerk and Slock.it, allows P2P transactions between EV drivers and private EV charging infrastructure owners. The EV charging stations network runs on public Ethereum and smart contracts. Innogy has launched hundreds of EV charging stations across Germany since May 2017 [236].
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A complete list of all articles written by community member, HSV.
https://medium.com/@HSVGTS/a-complete-list-of-all-medium-articles-i-have-wrote-with-regards-to-energy-web-8fc48118acb1?source=friends_link&sk=3b1d55818fa5093e224375814e657ab5
Some Interesting Links
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1364032118307184
https://www.ledgerinsights.com/enterprise-blockchain-ibm-platform-aws-azure/
https://medium.com/@HSVGTS/energy-web-community-ama-1-april-2020-e63650df0f48
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0gT7axdXfA
https://medium.com/@HSVGTS/energy-web-review-the-grids-new-digital-dna-86f80217634d
https://medium.com/energy-web-insights/digitalization-means-decarbonization-4e4b1af21d63
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2020.04.12 18:03 Homusubi Stumped by the 19-civ Japan vote? As the creator of most of the civ choices, this is my take on the options and how I'm ranking them, from bottom to top.

Here we go. Ganbarō.
#19 - ECHIGO (UESUGI KENSHIN)
Let's start with the worst of the list and work our way up. Echigo is the mainland bit of modern Niigata Prefecture, on the Sea of Japan coast pretty much due north of Tokyo, most well-known for the quality of its rice. Uesugi Kenshin was a complete badass of a samurai leader who was said to be the avatar of a war god, and who was the only daimyo to defeat Oda Nobunaga on the battlefield. Sounds good, right? Why am I ranking him last? It's all about the UA. Echigo is a very defensive civ, hard to conquer, but with nerfs across the board for units outside of friendly territory. They have a zero percent chance of winning, and even if you actually prefer China and want a weak Japan, they're more irritating to conquer than...
#18 - SOUTH KYUSHU (SHIMADZU NARIAKIRA)
...South Kyushu under Shimadzu Nariakira - yes, Shimadzu with a D, I will fight you - who are in fact borderline OP, if not straight OP, in human hands, but who have perhaps the worst AI I have ever seen. It's a shame really, this is one of the more historical civs in the Rising Sun pack and Satsuma (southern Kyushu, so this is the southernmost TSL in the district) has a really interesting quasi-independent history behind it. Nariakira's a good guy too, less internationally well known than his ancestors Yoshihiro and Yoshihisa but more famous in his homeland than either due to his pro-Meiji agitation. But at the end of the day, this is only a recommended choice if you really hate Japan and want to see the civ do miserably.
#17 - JAPAN (JIMMU)
Of course I'm biased! This is the only civ of the nineteen here that I have had no hand in making, and so I've elected to rank them seventeenth, above only the two basket cases. In fairness, this is actually quite a good civ, particularly aesthetically, with its rather nice icon and colour scheme and (crucially) a torii gate as a UI. Most of the history is solid too, the only exceptions being the YNAEMP TSL and the city list, which get changed for Royales most of the time anyway. AI-wise, I'd say this is upper mid-tier. At the end of the day though... this is the anti-Homusubi choice, and I'm not going to go along with something like that. (No reason why you shouldn't though, as I say this civ has many good qualities and if you rank it way higher than 17th I won't complain)
#16 - SHINSHU (TAKEDA SHINGEN)
Takeda Shingen was Uesugi Kenshin's great rival. Famed conqueror, cavalry commander, mountain infrastructure pioneer, low-key bisexual icon, et cetera et cetera. Shinshu, too, is an oft-overlooked part of Japan, consisting of the inland mountainous areas in the bulging centre of Honshu. Japan usually gets associated with the sea, but it's best not to forget that it has mountain cultures too! Anyway, the mod. Two UBs, which just shows how little I knew about the world when I made this, and what's more, I hear rumours that there's another Shingen mod in the works anyway. It's not a bad choice, its AI is mid-tier unpredictable at least, and my putting it at 16th says more about the other choices than about Shinshu, but I find it hard to get excited about it, despite how much I love both Shinshu and Takeda Shingen.
#15 - IKKO-IKKI (RENNYO)
More than any of the other Rising Sun mods, the Ikko-Ikki mod has me hitting myself over the design, sevenish years and one actual university essay about the Ikko-Ikki later. This here's a religious civ, but then again, it should be, as the Ikko-Ikki were a loosely-controlled series of rebellions in Sengoku Japan sort-of-sponsored by the then-heretical Jodo Shinshu sect of Buddhism. It's certainly a more interesting premise than your average Sengoku daimyo, and its AI, while below average, isn't terrible, but I still can't not look at this and think "2013 Homu, what were you doing? It should clearly be Honganji under Kennyo, not Ikko-Ikki under Rennyo!!!".
#14 - TOKAIDO (TOKUGAWA IEYASU)
You thought Tokugawa Ieyasu had been banished from this vote by the primary results, didn't you? Nope, he's back, except this isn't a Tokugawa Shogunate mod, this is a mod of Tokugawa Ieyasu the mid-tier Sengoku daimyo before he came to power by getting really damned lucky. Tokaido is the name of a famous road in Japan, but in this case, it refers to the coastal area roughly between Tokyo and Nagoya. These guys are another lower-mid-tier AI (although they have surprised me a couple of times) with a historically semi-shoddy set of uniques, the most notable being the Shinobi - yep, a ninja. But then again, if you're basing your vote on ninja quantity, this should only be your #2 behind the Iga Republic.
#13 - KANSAI (TOYOTOMI HIDEYOSHI)
Another of the Great Unifiers in a regional form, Toyotomi Hideyoshi leads Kansai, the area of Japan around Kyoto and Osaka, although this is really more of a specific Osaka mod. Two UBs again, so not the best start, but its UA, three extra food from every fishing boat, is as fun as it is simple. They also have perhaps my favourite colour scheme of this pack. However, it's still not the most exciting in terms of history or AI, so I'm putting them thirteenth, unless you like sushi bonuses even larger than the vanilla Japanese ones, in which case of course put them top.
#12 - CHUBU (ODA NOBUNAGA)
I didn't realise I'd put all three Great Unifiers next to each other, in chronological order with first ranked highest, until now. Chubu is really anything between Tokyo and Osaka, but here it refers to the area around Nagoya and Gifu which was the power base of Oda Nobunaga. Vote for this one if you secretly want a vanilla Japan except with a more historically accurate TSL and icon, and, of course, a second unique component a bit more relevant to ol' Nobu than a WW2 fighter plane is. Other than that? It's Oda Nobunaga, you know about Oda Nobunaga, make up your own mind, but I'll be ranking him twelfth.
#11 - WEST KYUSHU (AUGUSTIN KONISHI YUKINAGA)
The only Christian in the pack and a civ with something of a cult following (no pun intended), West Kyushu should flop badly, and indeed usually does, but every so often they pull off a miracle that astounds all viewers and makes them wonder whether they've been too unkind to them all along. They also have one of the stronger UAs here, albeit a religion-slanted one, and an interesting TSL that puts them closer to China and Korea than any other civ here. The case against? Um, not enough people realising that the atomic bombs were not the most historically noteworthy thing that ever happened in Nagasaki.
#10 - CHUGOKU (MORI MOTONARI)
Mori Motonari was another Sengoku warlord who was able to conquer the entirety of the western end of Honshu - everything west of, say, Akashi - and whose descendants kept some of that domain right up until the Meiji Restoration 300 years later when they led it from their rebranded 'Choshu'. Voting for the Mori would simultaneously be a source of Japanese-language puns ('Chugoku' also means 'China', take it from there) and a sort of troll pick for parts of the modding community (their UA involves the civ getting Himeji Castle on turn one, which sounds like it shouldn't work, but actually does, believe me). Their uniques are also some of the more historical in this bunch. AI? Hmm, mid-tier again, I suppose, but certainly not incompetent.
#9 - THE AKECHI (AKECHI MITSUHIDE)
The only Rising Sun civ not to have a specific region of Japan attached to it, the Akechi are a single samurai clan from the eastern Gifu area who are led by Mitsuhide, killer of Oda Nobunaga and the most famous backstabber in Japanese history. One of the very few civs here to have two UUs, and UUs from the same bit of the tech tree at that, the Akechi have the potential to be very militarily competent, even if their AI in practice is only upper-mid tier. Having pretty much one guy as a civ rather than a whole region of Japan makes for a slightly more interesting lore game than usual, too.
#8 - KANTO (HOJO UJIYASU)
Let's get the obvious out the way first. This here ain't a Pokemon civ, or at least, wasn't meant to be. The Kanto Plain is the largish expanse of flat land, a rarity in hilly Japan, on which Tokyo sprawls out to every corner, and on which the Pokemon region of the same name was based. Hojo Ujiyasu is another Sengoku figure who ruled all Kanto at the height of his empire, engaged in complex three-way warring and politics with Shingen and Kenshin, built a shedload of castles, and was the last major daimyo to hold out in the late Sengoku before being subsumed into the Toyotomi empire. He bore the name Hojo due to his grandfather's decision to adopt the mantle of the earlier Hojo clan (of Tokimune fame), which also meant that he fought under the old Hojo crest, which is, you guessed it, a Triforce. So Hojo, in other words, gets a double dose of Nintendo memes! He has a rather schizophrenic AI, sometimes madly successful and sometimes failing miserably, and his uniques are not all Royale-related, but who doesn't love Nintendo?
#7 - IGA REPUBLIC (MOMOCHI TAMBA)
This is primarily a PorkBean mod, but I had enough of a hand in the design and creation of it that it counts as a collab. Anyway, the Iga Republic is sort of like the Buccs, but with ninjas instead of pirates: an independent confederation of village clans in the mountainous heart of Kansai where ninjutsu traditions were formed and handed down. The birthplace of Hattori Hanzo and the aforementioned Momochi Tamba, this is the historically accurate ninja civ. The uniques are clever and aesthetically pleasing, too. Why only seventh, then? Well, although the AI has improved from when it was first released, Firaxis's AI is simply too dumb to play as Iga anything close to effectively, leaving us watching embarrassing acts that don't do Momochi justice. It's a great mod, it's worth voting for people like Taiping and Palmares for PorkBean representation as well as playing some games as Iga yourself, but this is the wrong place for it, and possibly the wrong time as well - if we're gonna have Iga in a royale, it had better be alongside some pirates.
#6 - TOHOKU (DATE MASAMUNE)
Tohoku is the northern bit of Honshu, north of Tokyo and Kanto, and the most horribly underrated part of the country. It's seen as hopelessly backward, emigration to Tokyo acting as a sort of McGuffin for everyone, but really, there's plenty to love about Tohoku in its own right, and the rest of Japan should stop exploiting it and looking down on it and give it a damn chance already. Anyway, rant over. Date Masamune is another Sengoku classic, the 'One-Eyed Dragon' famous as much for his taste in headgear as for his fierce martial skill and later administrative competence, and a leader that everyone here can surely get behind. The main reason I'm interested, though, is as a sort of experiment in AI gamedom. Masamune's UA involves giving him two extra settlers and one extra archer at the start of the game, and having seen it in action many times, I'm almost, but not quite, convinced that it's OP in normal circumstances. I'd be interested to see what happens when Tohoku has a much smaller space to expand in in the early game, and if that advantage (I don't mind if BC nerfs this to one extra settler rather than two if it really is OP) can overcome the civ's usually mediocre AI.
#5 - NORTH KYUSHU (KATO KIYOMASA)
This is an almost-unholy regional blob with a very unholy UA, trading global production boosts for extra unhappiness, but it is essentially the reigning champion of the region, having won AI Japan on CAG several years back. Kato Kiyomasa was a late-Sengoku/early-Edo daimyo famous for his ruthless treatment of Christians and his fondness for tiger hunting in Korea, and somehow also for his... skill at tea ceremony? Go figure. This guy'd be a natural for CBR probably-fascist Japan, anyway. Oh, and his UB encourages eating horses, because This. Is. Kumamoto.
#4 - HOKURIKU (MAEDA TOSHIIE)
Hokuriku is also on the Sea of Japan coast, but further down than Echigo - it's more associated with the area around Kanazawa. Kanazawa is famous as the Land of a Million Koku (koku being an amount of rice used to measure wealth in Edo times), in other words, the most prosperous domain in Tokugawa Japan. Maeda Toshiie was a general under Oda Nobunaga who founded said domain and was also well-known for his fondness for the spear. The reason I'm putting Maeda this far up is partly because this is the newest Rising Sun civ and as such one of the most historically accurate, but mostly because this is the most consistently impressive AI I've seen from my regional Japanese civs. Hokuriku has never disappointed, cultural uniques notwithstanding, and so is a very solid pick to carry the Japanese banner forward. The TSL also faces towards Asia rather than out into the Pacific, a fairly unusual trait in Japanese civs.
#3 - EAST SHIKOKU (MIYOSHI HISAHIDE)
Another Shikoku? Why not, I ask? This is another AI at the lower end of upper tier, mostly famous for a rather exciting and unlikely capital snipe they pulled off in AI Japan. It's helped by their UA making all units a bit stronger against cities, too, which sounds pretty damn useful in a Royale, however simple the premise is. But really, the main draw here is that it's another civ from Shikoku, without it being an actual repeat of Shikoku. Oh, just imagine, having two civs from the smallest and most-neglected of the big islands back-to-back! Sakamoto Ryoma would be laughing.
#2 - THE EMISHI (ATERUI)
We're right near the top of the list now! These guys are one of two civs on this list I made much more recently than Rising Sun, and so features a more complex and historically researched design than most. The most important thing to note about the Emishi is that they are the only civ on this list that aren't, in the normal sense of the word, culturally Japanese; related to the Jomon and probably to the Ainu as well, the Emishi are the ones to vote for if you're a hardline member of the Native-Only Coalition. They're also the most northerly of the civs in this district now that Jomon was voted out (side note: Jomon should have been put straight into this vote, not the primary) and Hokkaido has been moved to Eastern Siberia. As for the civ itself, mounted units are the order of the day, as the UA essentially removes the vast majority of their disadvantages while also giving them extra units when attacked; the UU, an indirect-firing chariot archer, removes such disadvantages even further; and the UI, referencing Matagi hunters (honestly some of the most badass people in Japan and that's saying something) and giving the Emishi a way to use their forests, boosts mounted units trained in the city depending on how many are being worked. Their AI isn't half bad either, so if the Emishi make landfall, prepare for Genghis Khan-ing. That to-do list is going to remain uncompleted: the north isn't going down without a fight.
#1 - JAPAN (TANAKA KAKUEI)
And my official endorsement goes to...! Well, you already knew that I was supporting Tanaka Kakuei's modern Japan, but I might as well make the case for him once more. We've had samurai, reformist emperors, and the occasional war criminal back in Mark 1, but so far, we haven't had a more recent Japan than that. Enter the Shogun of Darkness. Japanese politics is dominated by boring, forgettable, quietly incompetent figures, but the swashbucklingly corrupt, almost yakuza-like Kakuei isn't one of them. As in, as far as I am aware, he lays claim to the only unique component in Civ modding to be based on a scandal. There's also his UB's ability to passively flip non-enemy units in his territory - peacekeepers, in other words, and so hopefully not too much of an issue this season, but always worth having the fallback there - to consider, not to mention his AI, a borderline Godzilla that I still have no idea how I managed to create. Oh, and trains, potentially Trans-Siberian bullet trains that transport Japanese units across continents in an instant. It's a fun civ with a unique leader that offers a different take on Japan, and so I am proud to endorse him for this season of CBRX, however much I'd never do so in real life. Nippon banzai!
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2020.01.10 23:05 BarnardsLoop Smash Ultimate - Region Ranking 2019. Ranking 91 regions across Smash's busiest year.

Now for something a bit more reserved. I'll be hosting an InTheLoop page with this, and I've tweeted the ranking out, but this is the 2019 region ranking. How was this accomplished?

Super Regions

First, earlier in the year, I gathered the info to split the international scene into 11 separate "super regions" -
-United States
-Canada
-Mexico
-Caribbean
-Central America
-South America
-Europe
-Middle East
-Japan
-Oceania
-Asia-Pacific (Non JPN/AUS)
This seemed to be the best way to split things as a starting point. The areas it doesn't represent are Africa (which has two very obscure active scenes - Morocco, South Africa, to which I can find little info on) and Russia (which primarily appears to be a wifi scene.)
North American was split due to the sheer size/activity of all three countries as well as travel limitations between MX and the USA. Both of these factors combined made it seem like a reasonable choice.

Absent Areas

I collected a final total of 109 regions, 91 of which were used. The remaining 18 had one, or multiple issues:
-No active power rankings. For areas that didn't qualify for orionRank, I relied on a secondary scoring method that utilized the top 5 of Power rankings.
-No info on smashdata.gg. This was the case for an annoyingly large number of areas where I did have a PR but lacked bracket access.
-Obscurity. Some of the regions listed as so obscure that I didn't even know about them until juddy96 brought them up.
-Playerbase quantity. It's not even certain that Northern Canada or Australia even have playerbases.
The list;
Unaffiliated
-South Africa
-Morocco
-Russia
Canada
-North Canada
Oceania
-Northern Territory
Middle East
-Lebanon
-Kuwait
-Bahrain
Europe
-Republic Ireland
Caribbean
-St. Lucia
-Jamaica
-Barbados
-Trinidad and Tobago
Central America
-Belize
-Guatemala
Asia-Pacific
-India
-Malaysia
-Thailand

The Top 91

Scored by OrionRank aggregates or secondary methods. I will list a few notable players from each region for a few of the top ones, but lower on the list things become too obscure for that to be useful.

1 - Tristate (USA) (37029.6)

Notable players: Tweek, Nairo, Dabuz.

2 - Kanto (Japan) (33216.523)

Notable players: Zackray, Kameme, Protobanham.

3 - New England (USA) (14267.79)

Notable players: Marss, Light, Raffi-X.

4 - Central Florida (13261)

Notable players: MKLeo, Salem, Goblin

5 - France (11577.97)

Notable players: Glutonny, Flow, Jeda

6 - Midwest (11494.88)

Notable players: Cosmos, Yeti, Zinoto

7 - South Florida (11443.3)

Notable players: Samsora, Myran, MuteAce

8 - Kansai (11017.151)

Notable players: Tea, Kome, ZAKI

9 - SoCal (10343.4)

Notable players: VoiD, Elegant, Nicko

10 - Atlantic Southeast (8019.8)

Notable players: Kola, Fatality, RFang

11 - Netherlands (7644.328)

Notable players: Mr. R, Meru, Space

12 - Pacific Northwest/BC (5498.5)

Notable players: Pandarian, Big D, Captain L

13 - Central Mexico (4634.86)

Notable players: Maister, Chag, Javi

14 - Oklahoma (4267.1)

Notable Players: ESAM, MVD

15 - MD/VA (4343.7)

Notable players: WaDi, Puppeh, ZD
16 - Germany (3909.92)
17 - Southwest (3792.4)
18 - Kyushu (3669.76)
19 - Ontario (3205.7)
20 - NorCal – (3067.14)
21 - Texas – (2687.1)
22 - Northeast Mexico – (2680.17)
23 - Chubu – (2595.115)
24 - United Kingdom – (1301.32)
25 - Sweden – (1116.7)
26 - Quebec – (1034.7)
27 - West Mexico – (960)
28 - Chugoku – (958.148)
29 - Prairie Canada – (923.835)
30 - North Florida – (802.2)
31 - Northwest Mexico – (659.8)
32 - Deep South – (633.8)
33 - Tohoku – (526.307)
34 - Dominican Republic – (505.2)
35 - Spain – (457.905)
36 - New South Wales – (444.605)
37 - Austria – (374.19)
38 - Victoria – (348.5)
39 - Norway – (304.15)
40 - Luxembourg – (260.62)
41 - Costa Rica – (225.45)
42 - Queensland – (193.64)
43 - Chile – (163.25)
44 - Finland – (160.89)
45 - Puerto Rico – (120.68)
46 - Rocky Mountains – (105.1)
47 - Italy – (91.96)
48 - Maritimes Canada – (85.3)
49 - Australia Capital Territory – (81.6)
50 - South Korea – (80.8)
51 - Belgium – (71)
52 - Switzerland – (57.6)
53 - Denmark – (52)
54 - Shikoku – (49.88)
55 - Philippines – (40.5)
56 - South Australia – (31.2)
57 - Brazil – (25.2)
58 - Southeast Mexico – (23.31)
59 - Israel – (19.1)
60 - Venezuela – (19)
61 - Poland – (17.6)
62 - Peru – (15.2)
63 - Uruguay – (14.6)
63 - West Australia – (14.6)
65 - New Zealand – (14.4)
66 - Panama – (14)
67 - Hawaii – (13.6)
68 - Argentina – (12.8)
69 - Saudi Arabia – (12.4)
70 - Alaska – (9.4)
71 - Singapore – (9)
71 - Portugal – (9)
73 - Hong Kong – (8.8)
74 - Colombia – (7.4)
75 - China – (7.2)
76 - Qatar – (6.4)
77 - Lithuania – (5.6)
78 - Honduras – (5.4)
78 - Okinawa – (5.4)
80 - Paraguay – (5.2)
81 - Hokkaido – (5)
82 - Nicaragua – (4.6)
83 - Ecuador – (3.8)
84 - Greece – (3.4)
85 - Tasmania – (3)
85 - Bahamas – (3)
87 - United Arab Emirates – (2.4)
88 - Turkey - (2.2)
89 - Taiwan – (0.4)
90 - Vietnam – (0.2)
90 - Iceland – (0.2)

Super Region Combination Ranking

United States of America - 128330.56
Japan - 52043.284
Europe - 27416.353
Mexico - 8958.14
Canada - 7998.785
Oceania - 1131.545
Caribbean - 628.88
South America - 266.45
Central America - 259.65
Asia-Pacific - 146.9
Middle East - 42.5
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2019.09.06 18:57 ElectrifyingBreadCat Valkist USA The American Culture Bulwark

One of the most frequently discussed topics about Fuhrerreich is whether or not the United States will be receiving an option to go Valkist. While there were suggestions and discussions made about it and some teasers were had in the past, instead of how the USA would go Valkist, I'd like to offer my two cents on an idea I've had for a route a Valkist USA could go assuming it went the way it was teased before.
  The Starting Situation
The Valkist ideals have finally reached the USA with the Silver Legion getting in power and William Dudley Pelley as the new leader of the state. Pelley had a mission, to bring the United States together under the banner of God and country. A more religious form of Valkism that adopts Christian icons and symbolism and the very values of American spirit under Mother Columbia and Uncle Sam. America shall soon be the Papal State of the New World! But there was a problem; not many of the followers of mainstream Valkism agree with his ideals. For a religiously driven state shall bring with itself policies that goes against the progressive stance of the ideology they stood with and the glorification of America's 'Manifest Destiny' period did not sit well with the more progressive Valkists. As such, factions have begun to form. Those who support the mainstream concept of Valkism and those who sided with Pelley and his personal form of Valkism known as Columbian Valkism. And so the Valkists of America have been divided between the Columbians and the Purists.
  What Is Valkism?
The Columbian Valkism ideas of the Silver Legion managed to gain the support of the faith driven Social Conservatives and National Populists who agree with the formation of a religious state and its pro-American spirit. The mainstream Valkists know that their ideals of cultural supremacy will have no support in its current state and a compromise must be made. A revision must be made to ensure that the very spirit of true Valkism is secured no matter the cost. The Purists will have themselves allied with various American cultural groups but the one that will be the most influential is the American Indian Federation. The United States of America is in a peculiar situation that will make the mainstream form of Valkism rendered unusable. The Purists believe in glorifying the past but the American history is one of multiculturalism and colonialism. Some agreed that if they were to maintain the Valkist spirit, America shall revert back to its pre-Columbian roots and revitalise the old culture of the natives, however not everyone in the state will agree to such a drastic measure and suggest the true American culture will be of its earlier colonial days of Jamestown and New England. After ideas were exchanged between one another, an agreement was made to define what the culture of American Valkism shall be.
  Distancing From Dressler
The Purists have settled with a different direction for Valkism to fully work with the current state of America, one they dubbed as Revolutionary Valkism:
Once the outline of Revolutionary Valkism was arranged, the now reformed Revolutionaries agree it is time to take centre stage and face the Silver Legion.
  Victory Of The Revolutionaries
The Columbian Valkists of Pelley and the followers of Revolutionary Valkism shall then compete between one another for the fate of America. The mechanic of this scenario shall play out similarly to the Troika of the Soviet Union. Fighting for the support of the people and the security of your faction. For this scenario, let's assume the Revolutionaries have come out victorious. America will take its first steps into a new direction on the world's stage.
  National Focuses: Politics
Messiah Of America
The first order of business is to unite the people of America. Despite the rejection of Pelley's idea he had one thing right, Americans need religion as a catalyst to unite. In a bizarre move, the Revolutionary Valkists will establish the Latter Day Saint Church as the state religion. Valkism is an ideology of the local culture and the Book of Mormon is compatible to what they are fighting for. Protestants were of German origin, Catholicism shall put the people at the mercy of the Pope, and the Orthodox churches are too foreign of a concept for the Americans. The followers of the Book Of Mormons however were not just significant in the history of America but also to the political beliefs of the Valkists. The Revolutionaries manage to convince the masses not to just love the state but to instill a newfound interest in the local native culture as their Messiah did centuries before the first colonials arrived. But the actions of the Revolutionaries have just begun.
Of The Tongue
While the Revolutionaries promote the culture of traditional New England/Early colonialism, other colonial ways of life will be suppressed or stamped out entirely. French and Spanish will be heavily curbed among the population causing riots in the formerly Spanish and Mexican states. Once that had been dealt with, it is time to establish a second formal language of the new American state. One of native origin! But which shall it be? Iroquois? Sioux? The American region is diverse with multiple native languages. This shall be up to the player. An event shall fire where the player will pick which language shall be modernised and established as the new secondary language of America. Each with its own unique National Spirit. With a revised native language established, it will become mandatory for each American regardless of background to learn it and start communicating with it. But it will not end there, to ensure preservation of the other native cultures, local regional languages shall too be taught in schools! By the time the Valkists are done with America, an average anglo American shall be trilinguals with English, the secondary native language, and a third regional language! However, the policy may not be enough and cultural assimilation is needed. Indoctrination efforts shall spread across America to teach the people of the new syncretic American culture!
Reversing The Columbian Footprint
It is with such great grief the Revolutionaries accept the atrocities of the American government during the days of Manifest Destiny and the plague brought onto the natives by the colonials. But the time for mourning is over and the Valkists will have to take extreme measures to repair this problem! A state mandate marriage system will be established, forcing interracial marriages between the natives and the colonial descendants no matter if they are european or african. The policy will ensure that the new generation of Americans shall carry the legacy of both the pre-Columbian culture and the new America! But what if the people refuse to the orders of the state? It is obvious subsidies were needed to promote the program and reparations made with the natives to ensure their co-operation or a harsher more totalitarian option to both parties involved.
A New America!
With the fusion of both forms of Early American culture and the rejection of modern American culture, a new America had arisen! One that shall carry the torch of the old age in a modern light! Once the Revolutionaries have fully spread and solidify their ideals in America, it is time they turn their heads outwards.
  National Focuses: Foreign Policy
The Trotsky Of Valkism
Fuhrerreich is a world imagined by the people of the Kaiserreich universe. In their world, The United States was isolationist and refuse to partake itself into worldly affairs. To them, in a world where Germany had lost the Weltkrieg, they'd imagine the United States counterpart to be very interventionist. It is time for America to spread Freedom! But this time, freedom from colonial culture. The injustice left behind by the colonial powers can be seen clearly in the American neighbours of Mexico and the two Dominions of the north, Canada and Newfoundland. America shall stand no longer and watch as the North American culture is left stagnant with pitiful Old World languages and ways of life that ruined them in the first place. The Revolutionaries shall prepare a set of plans for the international revolution of native cultural nationalism! One that will revive the ways of old and punish the sins of the oppressors!
Phase I: Turtle Island
By this point of the game, it is expected that a non-Democratic Mexico to wage war on the Americans to reclaim Baja California and more. But should ever that was avoided, Mexico shall be the first to fall prey to the ideals of a Greater American State! America shall receive a wargoal to annex the Mexico and any Central American states that share a similar native cultural group of people. War shall be declared on the Mexican state and soon after, Guatemala.
Next is to provoke the lands under British rule. Declaring war on the Empire for Belize, Canada, and Newfoundland is not the smartest of move and a new direction must be made. Revolutionary ideals shall be spread in those states, weakening them. It is also best to disrupt their maritime activities, preventing them from communicating and getting assistance from the British mainland. From the Central American border to Alaska, America shall initiate border conflicts over Belize and with the Canadian dominion.
Once the Canadian and Newfoundland regions were occupied, it is time to make a deal with Empire and annex them, succumbing them to the new anti-colonial culture as the rest of the country. The continent of North America is now unified under Valkist rule and America shall rename itself as the Great Turtle Island!
Phase II: De-Latinisation
The South American continent were the most tragic of them all. The Spaniards have left a mark on the region that the Revolutionaries view with disgust and anger. It is time injustice has been undone! The Turtle Island state will acquire wargoals on each and every non-colonial regions in Central America and the South American continent. Brazil, Paraguay, Panama, Jamaica and even the Dutch region where Queen Wilhemina was exiled to. A new decision menu will be available to create Valkist Cultural Federations that will unite, preserve, and promote their respective native cultures, suppress colonial cultures and forcing them to assimilate to the natives, and compete between one another in cultural achievements. These are akin to the Reichkomissariats of Germany but with lesser racial oppression. With each country declared and annexed, the Turtle State shall form their appropriate Cultural Federations.
The first Federation shall consist of the Central American territories and northern South America. The Carib Federation shall unite the mesoamericans, Carib, and Arawak peoples. The next Federation is the Tawantinsuyu Federation and it shall consist of regions that were once under the Incan Empire and straight down the Andes. The Amazonian Federation will be created from Brazil and the Guianas to unite the Tupi people and promote any isolated cultures. Lastly, the Patagonian Federation shall be established with the Mapuche people in mind. These Federations can be formed without the need of annexing the colonial occupied regions such as the Falklands, French Guyana, or the Caribbeans. Should the player managed to do so later in the game, the appropriate territories will be added to their respective Federations.
Phase III: Asia Pacific
The colonial injustice made by the Europeans in the New World have been undone. But cultural genocide is not always global. In Asia, this can be seen with the Chinese with their treatment the Manchus, the Japanese suppression of the Ainus, the Soviets holding on to the lands meant for the Uralic, Turkic, and Tungusic peoples! The Valkist Revolution have succeeded in the New World, now it's time to spread it to the Old World! The Turtle Island State will set their sights onto Japan first. Curbing their imperialism both national and cultural. The Yamato/Wajin people must be stopped in their tracks not just for the sake of their Asian neighbours but also for the cultures they had destroyed! Once their imperial delusions are put into question, the Japanese lands will be split up into their respective Federations. The Ryukyuans shall be granted independence and the island of Kyushu as reparation into a Ryukyuan Federation. The regions of Kamchatka-Hokkaido to Chubu will be formed into the Ainu Federation with respect to the Ainu's last greatest extent before the Yamato people drove them up north. The remaining lands were formed into the Yamato Federation for the Japanese people.
Once Japan had been dealt with, it is time to move into Asia proper! The warring states of China and Mongolia shall be declared war on and Federations are formed afterwards. The Mongolian Federation consisting of Mongolia, Outer Mongolia, and historically Buryat and Oirat regions, the Tungusic Federation in Manchuria for the Tungusic people, and the Korean Federation consisting of the territories belonging to the Korean Empire before the Japanese invasion. The Japanese regions annexed prior shall be partitioned to their respective Federations.
Once that is over, war shall be declared on both the Russian State and the Soviet Union simultaneously. The Ainu Federation, Tungusic Federation, and Mongolian Federation shall receive their appropriate lands and the Uralic Federation will be formed ranging from Siberia to the Uralic mountains for the Ural and Siberian Turkic peoples.
Phase IV: Anti-Imperialism And The Future
Once their cultural revolution in Asia is complete, the Turtle Island State will have built up enough strength to tackle on the European powers themselves! Taking back land from the British and French, the Valkist revolution shall spread across the world! If the player is successful enough, they can establish even more cultural Federations, even so far as to establish an Austronesian Federation ranging from Hawaii to Madagascar!
  That's my idea for a direction a Valkist USA could take. A lot of thanks if you read through all of it so far and I'm glad if you enjoy it.
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2019.08.27 01:04 Grumpy__Lumpy Highest development states, regions, continents at 1444

My previous post was a script I ran to find dev in culture and culture group. I modified it a bit to get all the dev in states, regions, etc at the 1444 start date so here's everything in EU4 by dev at 1444.
Disclaimer : Some subcontinent regions may appear multiple times under different continents, that's just how EU4 categorizes them
Continent - Europe : 6732
Western Europe : 4053 Scandinavia:325 North Germany:578 South Germany:493 France:763 Low Countries:283 Italy:676 Iberia:539 Britain:396 Eastern Europe : 2173 Russia:431 Baltic:205 Balkans:373 Carpathia:246 Poland:257 Ruthenia:210 Pontic Steppe:196 Ural:255 Near East : 478 Anatolia:345 Caucasia:133 Africa(Think about the Iberian islands in the pacific) : 28 Maghreb:28
Continent - Africa : 2445
Africa : 2445 Maghreb:372 Egypt:193 Sahel:219 East Africa:300 South Africa:130 Kongo:165 Guinea:130 Niger:347 Horn of Africa:339 Central Africa:250
Continent - Asia : 7626
Near East : 678 Mashriq:261 Arabia:304 Anatolia:45 Caucasia:68 Persia : 581 Persia:359 Khorasan:222 Tartary : 1205 Central Asia:376 West Siberia:136 Tibet:101 Mongolia:223 Manchuria:264 East Siberia:105 India : 1939 Western India:334 Hindustan:598 Deccan:434 Coromandel:231 Bengal:342 East Indies : 1634 Burma:262 Malaya:337 Indochina:392 Indonesia:302 Moluccas:341 China : 1091 Xinan:145 South China:537 North China:409 Far East : 498 Korea:130 Japan:368
Continent - North America : 2153
Central America:787 Caribbeans:243 Central America:202 Mexico:342 South America:9 Colombia:9 North America:1354 Rio Grande:91 California:145 Cascadia:114 Great Plains:103 Mississippi:149 Great Lakes:93 Southeast:141 Northeast:204 Canada:200 Hudson Bay:114 Oceania:3 Oceania:3
Continent - South America : 1100
South America : 1100 Colombia:268 Brazil:318 La Plata:160 Upper Peru:150 Peru:204
Continent - Oceania:301
Oceania:274 Australia:132 Oceania:142 East Indies:27 Moluccas:27
As for states the list is exhaustive and ranked from highest development to lowest
 Lombardy:92 Tuscany:91 South Jiangsu:91 Venetia:80 Wallonia:77 East Guangdong:75 Lahore:73 Zhejiang:73 Loire:71 Burgundy:69 Netherlands:69 Île-de-France:68 Beiras:67 Lazio-Campania:64 Piedmont:63 Sicily:61 Lower Doab:61 Bohemia:60 Ningguta:59 Gascony:58 Emilia-Romagna:58 Picardy:57 Bulgaria:57 Brunei:56 Brittany:55 Languedoc:55 Lower Andalucia:55 Bahari:55 Central Thailand:55 Savoy:54 Syria:54 Central Tenasserim:54 North Hebei:54 Flanders:53 Manding:53 Shandong:53 Central Italy:52 London:52 Tabarestan:52 Austria Proper:51 Toledo:51 Astrakhan:51 Upper Doab:51 Hubei:51 Lorraine:50 Novgorod:50 Tunisia:50 West Bengal:50 Windward Islands:50 Thrace:49 Niger Bend:49 South Sulawesi:49 Fujian:49 Lower Bavaria:48 Liguria:48 Aleppo:48 Ahmedabad:48 Malwa:48 Orissa:48 West Java:48 Sichuan:48 Leeward Islands:48 Lower Burma:47 Mekong:47 Catalonia:46 Wallachia:46 South Carnatic:46 Northern Thailand:46 Denmark:45 Normandy:45 Holland:45 Leon:45 West Prussia:45 Valencia:44 Oudh:44 Cambodia:44 Champa:44 Kalimantan:44 Shanxi:44 Kinai:44 Inner Austria:43 Champagne:43 Slovakia:43 Kabulistan:43 Liaoning:43 South Jilin:43 Mysore:43 Jiangxi:43 Skåneland:42 Upper Swabia:42 Morea:42 Crimea:42 Galich:42 Rum:42 Central Morocco:42 Maidan:42 Southern Luzon:42 Provence:41 Tver:41 Red Ruthenia:41 Malopolska:41 Bashkiria:41 Aydin:41 Upper Burma:41 Hunan:41 North Henan:41 Shaanxi:41 Transdanubia:40 Transoxiana:40 Purvanchal:40 Rayalaseema:40 Andhra:40 Central Burma:40 Riau:40 Kutai:40 Hesse:39 Poitou:39 Frisia:39 East Adriatic:39 Moldavia:39 Dagestan:39 Iraq Arabi:39 Assam:39 East Gansu:39 Upper Bavaria:38 Silesia:38 North Morocco:38 East Bengal:38 North Tenasserim:38 Sông Hông:38 Central Java:38 Westphalia:37 Upper Rhineland:37 Palatinate:37 Switzerland:37 Karaman:37 Kongolese Coast:37 Kurdistan:37 Armenia:37 Iraq-e-Ajam:37 Bihar:37 Ahmednagar:37 Malacca:37 Lampung:37 South Laos:37 Eastern Korea:37 North Rhine:36 Carniola:36 Asturias:36 Aragon:36 Castille:36 Alentejo:36 Jenne:36 Tabriz:36 Khiva:36 Erzgebirge:35 West Midlands:35 Lowlands:35 Azov:35 Farsistan:35 Inner Mongolia:35 Buryatia:35 Kanara:35 Raichur Doab:35 Gaur:35 Malaya:35 East Java:35 South Anhui:35 Southern Korea:35 Sanyodo:35 West Cuba:35 Lower Rhineland:34 Highlands:34 Wielkopolska:34 Kanem:34 Central Ethiopia:34 Basra:34 Mecca:34 Konkan:34 Malabar:34 North Carnatic:34 North Bengal:34 Shan Hills:34 Mecklenburg:33 Weser:33 Lower Swabia:33 Pskov:33 East Prussia:33 Aukstaitija:33 Delta:33 Massina:33 Kazakhstan:33 Eastern Mongolia:33 Multan:33 Mithila:33 Berar:33 Rakhine:33 Aceh:33 North Sulawesi:33 Eastern Chubu:33 Lower Saxony:32 Massif Central:32 East Anglia:32 Ryazan:32 Croatia:32 Serbia:32 Hüdavendigar:32 Erzurum:32 Sus:32 Cape of Good Hope:32 Kongo:32 Kasai:32 Isfahan:32 Mewar:32 Sirhind:32 West Guangdong:32 North Jutland:31 Mittelmark:31 South Saxony:31 Franconia:31 Romandie:31 Moscow:31 Yaroslavl:31 Northern Greece:31 Macedonia:31 Çukurova:31 Lower Volta:31 Katsina:31 Buha:31 Al Jazira:31 Shirvan:31 Ferghana:31 Southern Sindh:31 Nepal:31 Bundelkhand:31 South Telingana:31 Spice Islands:31 Yun-Gui Hinterland:31 Upper Andalucia:30 South Karelia:30 Suzdal:30 Livonia:30 Alföld:30 Sandomierz:30 Kazan:30 Aegean Archipelago:30 Karadeniz:30 Mogadishu:30 Somaliland:30 Palestine:30 Nogai:30 Yrtesh:30 Ishim:30 Kachin:30 Visayas:30 Yun-Gui Frontier:30 South Henan:30 South Hebei:30 Tohoku:30 Western Kanto:30 Greater Antilles:30 Schleswig-Holstein:29 Tirol:29 Wessex:29 Kartli-Kakheti:29 Uganda:29 Shaba:29 Khuzestan:29 Central Heilongjiang:29 Gird:29 Desh:29 North Laos:29 Timor:29 North Jiangsu:29 Southern Kyushu:29 San'indo:29 Hokuriku:29 Guatemala Lowlands:29 Braunschweig:28 Galicia:28 Leinster:28 Mazovia:28 Perm:28 Ural:28 Germiyan:28 Macaronesia:28 Barbary Coast:28 Sakalava:28 Mombasa:28 Angola:28 Luba:28 Shahrizor:28 Jetysuu:28 Saurashtra:28 Gondwana:28 Upper Mahanadi:28 Lesser Sunda Islands:28 West Gansu:28 Western Korea:28 Northern Kyushu:28 Vladimir:27 Lower Don:27 Algiers:27 Vostani:27 Said:27 Mascarenes:27 Rwanda:27 Lower Yemen:27 Azerbaijan:27 Kashgaria:27 South Ilin Hala:27 Madura:27 Khorat:27 Western Chubu:27 Northern Saxony:26 Guyenne:26 Apulia:26 Scottish Marches:26 Central Swahili Coast:26 Upper Volta:26 Ifat:26 Outer Mongolia:26 North Ilin Hala:26 Tapti:26 Khandesh:26 Tanjore:26 West Mindanao:26 Western Mediterranean Islands:25 Oka:25 Tambov:25 Samogitia:25 Bosnia:25 Saratov:25 Kama:25 Bornu:25 Quelimane:25 Kano:25 Kaffa:25 Upper Yemen:25 Mashhad:25 South Zungaria:25 Batak:25 Tonkin:25 Guangxi:25 Dominica:25 Östra Götaland:24 Østlandet:24 Hinterpommern:24 Thuringia:24 Southern Transylvania:24 Northern Transylvania:24 Kuyavia:24 Podlasie:24 Sloboda Ukraine:24 Smolensk:24 Ankara:24 Samtskhe:24 Gharb:24 Dendi:24 Jolof:24 Benin:24 Zazzau:24 Luristan:24 Uliastai:24 Jharkhand:24 Palawan:24 Guatemala:24 Östra Svealand:23 Finland:23 Vorpommern:23 Neumark:23 Estonia:23 Zaporizhia:23 Tihama al-Yemen:23 Muscat:23 U:23 Jaipur:23 Katehar:23 Chuannan:23 Connacht:22 Shire:22 Lower Niger:22 Upper Nubia:22 Gulf Coast:22 Makran:22 Kalat:22 Kham:22 Chindwin:22 Moluccas:22 Taiwan:22 Shikoku:22 East Cuba:22 Ulster:21 Central Poland:21 Minsk:21 Volhynia:21 West Dniepr:21 Imereti:21 Kabylia:21 West Azbin:21 Mozambique:21 Northern Swahili Coast:21 South African Plateau:21 Lower Kasai:21 West African Coast:21 Tigray:21 Herat:21 Ghor:21 Balkh:21 East Heilongjiangord:21 Marwar:21 Kashmir:21 Kongu:21 Minangkabau:21 Northern Luzon:21 Haiti:21 Vestlandet:20 East Midlands:20 Yorkshire:20 Rascia:20 Circassia:20 Southern Madagascar:20 Futa Jallon:20 Tekrur:20 Hadiya:20 Oman:20 South Lanka:20 North Anhui:20 Pyongan:20 Västra Götaland:19 Pripyat:19 Buzinza:19 Bahrain:19 Mogostan:19 Tsang:19 Turpan-Kumul:19 Sind Sagar:19 Ceram:19 Vasconia:18 Yedisan:18 Samara:18 Volga:18 Dulkadir:18 Tafilalt:18 Baghena:18 Natal:18 Damot:18 Asir:18 Kerman:18 Sistan:18 Transcaspia:18 Syr Darya:18 Arys:18 Lower Yik:18 Balchash:18 Ob:18 Patan:18 Munster:17 Pomorye:17 North Sahara:17 Zimbabwe:17 Butua:17 Kong:17 Atacora Oueme:17 Majeerteen:17 Red Sea Coast:17 Kenya:17 Bunyoro:17 Merv:17 Central Altishahr:17 Khuttalan:17 Ordos:17 Northern Sindh:17 North Lanka:17 Indian Ocean Islands:17 Eastern Kanto:17 Trøndelag:16 Calabria:16 Wales:16 North Karelia:16 Curonia:16 Podolia:16 Southern Morocco:16 Lower Zambezi:16 Madagascar Highlands:16 Betsimasaraka:16 Ruvuma:16 Shewa:16 Kara:16 West Heilongjiangord:16 Jangladesh:16 Garjat:16 Tripura:16 Beloozero:15 Albania:15 East Dniepr:15 Cyrenaica:15 Central Sahara:15 Western Sahara:15 Matamba:15 Gulf of Guinea:15 Ogaden:15 Tanzania:15 Sankuru:15 Medina:15 Hadramut:15 Shanshan:15 Tunguska:15 Irkutsk:15 Amdo:15 Yakutia:15 Karenni:15 East Mindanao:15 Hokkaido:15 Nicaragua:15 Honduras:15 Västra Svealand:14 Norrland:14 Vologda:14 Arkhangelsk:14 Tripolitania:14 Red Sea Hills:14 Ngonde:14 Chokwe:14 Transjordan:14 Tabuk:14 al-Qasim:14 Pirate Coast:14 al-Yamamah:14 Kobdo:14 Himalayan Hills:14 Naga Hills:14 White Ruthenia:13 Djerba:13 Dongola:13 Okhotsk:13 Baisi Rajya:13 Baghelkhand:13 North Telingana:13 Indonesian Islands:13 Chuanbei:13 Chernigov:12 Fezzan:12 Lower Nubia:12 Guinea:12 Adamawa Plateau:12 Aussa:12 Ajuuraan:12 Birjand:12 Kyzylkum:12 Central Siberia:12 Kamchatka:12 Kolyma:12 Lucayan Archipelago:12 Baleares:11 High Plains:11 Sennar:11 Syrian Desert:11 Bhutan:11 Ngari:11 North Zungaria:11 al-Wahat:10 Makuana:10 Upper Zambezi:10 An Nafud:10 Mahra:10 Gobi:10 Hamgyeong:10 Ostrobothnia:9 Laponia:9 The Isles:9 Ouled Nail:9 Kurdufan:9 East Azbin:9 Jubba:9 Zambia:9 Dhofar:9 Tannu Uriankhai:9 Magadan:9 Sakha:9 Costa Rica:9 Sao Tome:8 Dulkadir:8 Iceland:6 Faroes:6
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2019.05.26 17:53 PromisingWriterGuy Writeup for Japanese anti-alien/paranormal group, Part 4

Listing all known Japanese intelligence agencies. I'll list them with names and brief history/functions, including suggested templates and all. When I can compile them all, I'll see if it needs expansion.
Any suggestion on skills and whatnot on the templates, leave a message. Stats are based on (a mix) the 2016 Handbook and Countdown.
After this, I'm taking a short break and reedit my previous entries.
- Public Security Intelligence Agency
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- Public Security Bureau (National Police Agency, Prefectural Police Headquarters and local stations including Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department)
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- Security and Intelligence Division
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- Cabinet Intelligence Research Office
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- Intelligence and Analysis Service
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- International Counter-Terrorism Intelligence Collection Unit
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- Defense Intelligence Headquarters
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- SDF Intelligence Security Command (JSDF)
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- Military Intelligence Command (JGSDF)
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- Fleet Intelligence Command (JMSDF)
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- Air Intelligence Wing (JASDF)
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