The Death Throes of Pacifism
February 6, 2024

To don the mantle of "leader of the free world," Nippon would have to rid itself of pacifism, permanently. With the reigning political party, LDP, comprising 74% of the National Diet of Nippon, this would not be impossible. For weeks, LDP politicians negotiated, compromised, and struck back-room deals to ensure that the party had enough votes to amend the pacifism out of the Nippon constitution. The party whip kept the LDP disciplined and focused. And finally after of political maneuvering, the vote was held to alter the constitution. It easily passed.

The only groans in the room were from the minority of pacifists still left in the Diet. The majority of the room cheered at the historic moment. For the first time since the 1940s, Nippon had the ability to arm itself for security of the nation and the free world.

Within days of that vote, Nippon shifted from a civilian economy to a partially-mobilized economy. This would mean a greater increase in the construction of military factories, fewer civilian factories devoted to producing consumer goods and instead redirected to building more military factories, and more armaments produced with the higher number of military factories created in Nippon. Defense stocks soared like never before.

Shina has not taken the news well. Beijing is eerily quiet, even as the New Red Guards take to the streets in revolutionary fervor. The New Red Guards are a mass, student-led, paramilitary social movement reminiscent of the Red Guards from Mao's days that is forcibly ripping the private enterprise from the bowels of the nation. (Jack Ma has not been seen since the rise of the New Left and is feared dead.)

Pacifism finally is dead. The rise of Nippon militarism is at hand. And that's a good thing.