Red Sunrise



(Also referred to as “Stalinist Samurais”)

'' “The Japanese are a disease of the skin. The Communists are a disease of the heart.” ''

 -Chiang Kai-shek Similarly to what would later happen in China and Korea, Japan follows the same path of Russia and undergoes a Communist Revolution in 1928. After the Japanese Communist Party seizes power in a chaotic revolution, Japan undergoes its own version of “the Great Leap Forward” that China would later undergo, enduring a rapid and violent modernization of its technology, military and cultural identity. Shinto is largely and forcefully expunged from the nation’s culture. Japan, now known as “The People’s Republic of Japan”, does not enter the Anti-Comintern Pact with Nazi Germany in 1936. The Second Sino-Japanese War of 1937 is completely averted. The Communist government of Japan instead becomes allies with China and later the Soviet Union as Hitler’s empire grows through appeasement via the Munich Agreement in 1938. Japan officially declares war on Nazi Germany in September of 1939 at the same time the Soviet Union does, joined by China. The intense dedication of the Japanese military is still present in this universe, with Kamikaze attacks being employed against the Axis by Japanese pilots at various stages of the war (which in this universe they have been dubbed “Commie-kazes”).