Under The Eastern Sun, 2023

-UNDER THE EASTERN SUN, 2023-

"I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve." - Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto

Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture

JGSDF Special Forces Group (SFGp) 1SOG, 4 PLATOON

Alternative Universe - "A Disillusioned Earth"

01 // THE SCENE

The year is 2023, in the land of the rising sun. Japan is the last significant anti-ACMF presence on the Asian continental rim that has not been invaded, destabilized, absorbed, or made to calculate that accommodation is preferable to resistance. This is not an accident of geography, though geography helps — the Korea Strait and the East China Sea are not nothing, as military barriers go, and the ACMF has not yet developed the naval and amphibious capability to render them nothing, though it is working on this with considerable urgency.

The Asian Continental Military Force has decided that if Japan cannot be invaded and cannot be economically coerced into accommodation and cannot be politically isolated past the point of effective resistance, then Japan can be made to doubt itself. It can be made to doubt its institutions, its security apparatus, its government's ability to protect its own people on its own soil. It can be made to look, in the eyes of its own population and the watching world, like a nation whose foundational postwar identity — the peace nation, the nation that chose a different path — has left it unable to defend the people living inside it.

A proxy cell operating in the Minato Mirai complex in Yokohama Bay on a Tuesday night in October was the best solution they got.

The Minato Mirai Complex is a high-density waterfront district of glass towers, government offices, financial institutions, and with the kind of foot traffic that a ACMF-backed proxy cell with just one objective in mind finds maximally useful. At 0210 hours, the Kanagawa Prefectural Government Building and the Pacific Financial Center were simultaneously hit at the same time.

Within just nineteen minutes the TMPD SAT (Special Assault Team) responded to the situation. They were the premiere civilian counterterrorism unit to respond to the scene. But the cell was larger than assessed.

The proxy cell