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Japan, Main island - I really only settled two cities here and played tall for a large part of the early game without war.

Korea / Manchukuo / Sino - Japan War - A lot of wars went on here. I spent about 70+ turns building up a huge navy and army, because Korea and China had gapped me in science by quite a bit. Very nerve-racking war.

Southern China Expansion - I settled 'Japanese Shang' and 'Japanese Fuijan', but took Chengdu from China in war.

Southern Asia Campaigns - I was surprised to see that Siam hadn't settled 400 cities by the time I had the military power to fight a war on numerous fronts with them, China, Polynesia, Korea and for some reason Denmark. Quick and easy war though.

Indonesia / Malaysia / Guinea Campaigns - When I began to start offensive actions for the first time in the game, I wiped out Indonesia first because they would serve as a great naval base. They also denounced me first so I held a grudge.

cont. - If you can't tell, Indonesia and I weren't the only ones settling in the Indonesian islands. I had to fight Songhai and Spain for some lands, and I felt annexing them and keeping them was appropriate because I wanted to keep all the land. (You can observe me preparing to declare war on Spain. I plan to declare war on every civ that has land in the Pacific hoping for an interesting yet rewarding campaign)

Australlia - Not much to be said here. If you read my previous footnote, the soldiers and ships surrounding every enemy city is self explanatory.

Pacific Islands - Owned by none other than Hiawatha, because of course he would, I plan to invade these islands to keep all foreign nations out of the Japanese Pacific. (I used IGE to claim some surrounding islands to make it feel more alike to the Japanese Empire, without necessarily settling on every last island there. Sorry.)

Wanted to give a show for one of the biggest events the Japanese Empire was responsible for in the mid 1900's; Pearl Harbor.

Demographics - China has been consistently Rank #1 in all of those categories until I took over Beijing. Very satisfying to see how you can dent another Civ's progress.

A low-res screenshot of my map.

The Japanese Empire is a staple of Asian History. I really only play this game on a modded map like this with every civ, on a true start huge Earth map, and it only feels right to recreate grand empires throughout history.

Additional:

I used IGE to claim Pacific Islands as my land, and to make borders look a lot cleaner without making the game unfair; Sue me, I think this made the game a lot more interesting.

128x80_TSL_G.K._resourses_epique_by.JSeb73: True Start huge Earth mod

Toft Flags: Custom flags as seen in screenshots.

I edited the game code to change the colors of China and a few other countries to my liking. There are tutorials on youtube if you want to learn how to do this.

I hope this wasn't offensive to anybody, and I hope the names of my cities are accurate to real life locations. Super sorry if otherwise.

Let me know what you all think!