Japan emerges as a major player among world powers as their ambassadors helped finalize the postwar treaties and create a new international body meant to stop large-scale wars before they began: The League of Nations. However, trouble continued brewing on the Korean Peninsula as a new mass movement for national liberation took to the streets.
The new international status quo that emerged after the first World War was very different than what came before, and Japan was poised to become a major new power in this new world.
The eastern front of the first world war was much busier than its western counterpart and the stakes for one nation were much higher. When the war finally ended with the Entente triumphant, Japan was poised to enjoy the advantages of supporting the winning side.
The assassination of an Austrian Archduke sparks a chain reaction which would ignite a global conflict on a scale never seen before.
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