Japanese Antarctic Sector: Difference between revisions
Content added Content deleted
No edit summary |
Dankerunn929 (talk | contribs) No edit summary |
||
| Line 25: | Line 25: | ||
{{Antarctica}} |
{{Antarctica}} |
||
The '''Japanese Antarctic Sector''' is [[Japan]]'s [[Antarctica|Antarctic]] sector, carved up and military occupied since the [[Antarctica#The_Scramble_for_Land| Scramble for Antarctica]]. |
The '''Japanese Antarctic Sector''' is [[Japan]]'s [[Antarctica|Antarctic]] sector, carved up and military occupied since the [[Antarctica#The_Scramble_for_Land| Scramble for Antarctica]]. |
||
== History == |
|||
=== Scramble for Antarctica === |
|||
While Japan had expressed little interest in the continent before the 1950s this would change after the Snipe War. Tokyo sent the 1s Airborne Brigade under Major General Kinugasa Hayao into the previously unclaimed territory of Marie Byrd Land, which would later be renamed Nobu Shirase Land, after a Japanese explorer who led an expedition to Antarctica in the 1910s. |
|||
Since the establishment of the Sectors capital of Showa Station, the colony has hosted several military bases, and became a port for both fishing and whaling ships to anchor in. |
|||
Revision as of 16:05, 5 June 2024
Nobu Shirase Land | |
|---|---|
 Flag of the Sector | |
 Japanese Antartica in Light Green TAG = AAJ | |
| Capital | Shōwa Station |
| Ruling Party | 
Imperial Japanese Army |
| Head of State | Kinugasa Hayao |
| Head of Government | Sugaharo Michio |
| Sphere |  Co-Prosperity Sphere |
| Foreign Alignment |   Sphere Military Administration |
| This article is part of a series on TNO's |
| Antarctica |
|---|
 |
| Major Bases |
|
Arturo Prat Base • Esperanza Base Showa Station • McMurdo Station Schirmarcher Station • Begerheim |
| Major Characters |
|
Jorge Edgar Leal • Julio Escudero Guzmán Kinugasa Hayao • William Francis Raborn Rudolf Mayr • Wolfram Sievers |
| Major Events |
The Japanese Antarctic Sector is Japan's Antarctic sector, carved up and military occupied since the Scramble for Antarctica.
History
Scramble for Antarctica
While Japan had expressed little interest in the continent before the 1950s this would change after the Snipe War. Tokyo sent the 1s Airborne Brigade under Major General Kinugasa Hayao into the previously unclaimed territory of Marie Byrd Land, which would later be renamed Nobu Shirase Land, after a Japanese explorer who led an expedition to Antarctica in the 1910s.
Since the establishment of the Sectors capital of Showa Station, the colony has hosted several military bases, and became a port for both fishing and whaling ships to anchor in.