
There's very little in the way of events for Japan in Vanilla Victoria 2. The Meiji Restoration in APD and Vanilla which ended with the shogun's defeat and the ascension of Emperor Meiji- who moved his capital from Kyoto to Edo (renamed to Tokyo) and ultimately abolished the Han system in his efforts to rapidly modernize the nation. Finally, the southern Satsuma daimyo rose up to overthrow the shogun and restore the Emperor to power in the Boshin War. With the death of the childless Shogun Iesada, the rift between the Tokugawa and the tozama daimyo grew worse. this, combined with the defeat of the shogun by Commodore Perry's expedition- which exposed the shogun's weakness- led the Emperor to issue an order for foreign barbarians to be expelled from Japan. As the shogun began to open up to the outside world, the Sonno Joi movement called for this to be reversed. Japan itself was closed off to the outside world, implementing the Sakoku policy which kept it relatively backwards and secluded. Japan begins the Victorian era in a feudal system, with the Tokugawa shogun ruling over various daimyo (this was known as the Han system) and the Emperor much-reduced in power.
2 The Meiji Restoration in APD and Vanilla. Highlighting his concern, Abe told a meeting of the Japan-Egypt Business Committee that Tokyo would provide non-military financial backing for countries fighting the al-Qaeda breakaway group, also known as ISIL. “Should we leave terrorism or weapons of mass destruction to spread in this region, the loss imparted upon the international community would be immeasurable.” “It goes without saying that the stability of the Middle East is the foundation for peace and prosperity for the world, and of course for Japan,” Abe said in Cairo in the first leg of a regional tour. Islamic State controls large parts of OPEC oil producer Iraq and neighboring Syria, has declared a caliphate and wants to redraw the map of a region vital for Japan’s energy needs. 7 with an attack on the offices of a newspaper that had published satirical images of the Prophet Mohammad. The threat of Islamist militancy has come into sharp focus outside the Middle East after gunmen killed 17 people in three days of violence in Paris that began on Jan. Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe signs a condolences book as he pays his respects for victims of the attack at the French weekly newspaper Charlie Hebdo, during a visit to the French Ambassador's residence in Tokyo January 9, 2015.