Ascendant Inferno

"It appeared that Japan empowered itself as the ‘New Europe’ in Asia, the rising threat to the chokehold of power the white man possessed, all fueled by the white man’s technology and culture, but all the more driven by the Japanese spirit, all the same. That’s how captivating this place is to me: this surly mixture of ancient and modern, of the rice paddies and the steel mills, of the Katana blades and the Karabiner rifles, of the Nobunaga engravings and the Hirohito murals. Japan—the proud amalgam."

The year is 1936, and the Empire of Japan stands at a crossroads. Cultural, economic, and political clashes between Eastern and Western ideals draw out a murky future for the leading power in the Pacific, and a one Josephine Sampson, aspiring American novelist, seeks to document the tenor and fabric of a nation encapsulating the term 'amalgam' amid social upheaval and the road to war.

Follow both her rich journal entries and the reports of government officials surrounding the Emperor Hirohito on Japan's course of action after a series of crises, to understand the pivotal moment Kaiserreich Japan finds herself in, and how she will be led into greatness or ultimate defeat.