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Countrymen, I present to you today, in praise of His Imperial Majesty Kokawayoshi Makoto, this issue of Foreign Affairs. The ministry still wants for ambassadors and agents, especially those with foreign language skills. If you have a passion for foreign affairs, please contact me at once.

Now let us proceed to some stories from around the world. Our leader today is a mystery wrapped up in an enigma. An old ally, a bitter enemy, a terrifying imperialist shadow and guardian of the rights of the few: Russia.


The Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs has a much more open dialog with Russia than one might expect. The Great Japanese Empire and the Russian Federation have been on the opposite sides of many battles in recent days, and we do in fact have an open war with the bear to the north. Russia still holds a piece of Chinese Manchuria, Jilin, for the Phoenix alliance. Most of North Korea is Russian land, and the Pyongan region, which is operated by the North Korean government, speaks largely Russian. Taking all of this into consideration, how could Russia be anything but Japan's bitterest enemy?

The answer is simply dialog. The Russian foreign ministry is very open in its talks with Asian countries. Compare this, for example, with Serbia, whose government has had no discussion with Japan or China, and whose citizens are rather aggressive in their excitement to belittle eastern peoples, and we begin to see Russia in a very favorable light. The Russian and Chinese governments are currently in high-level negotiations about the future of Jilin. The Russian ambassador to Japan shared with the Ministry one of the drafts of the Jilin Agreement, which appeared to be very much in China's favor. If the Russian government continues to demonstrate this willingness to work with eastern peoples, the future of Asia looks very bright indeed.

Even North Korea is beginning to look less like a Russian puppet zone, and more like a protectorate, a free state for the Belorussian minority. As the former North Korean population assimilates into other nations, Japan being the most prominent, the controversy over Russian involvement in the North Korean state is dying down.

Taking an optimistic stance and assuming Russia and China can solve the Jilin Problem and the North Korean Controversy will dissipate, all that is left is the open Russo-Japanese war. And truly, this is a problem. The Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs has petitioned our Russian counterpart for peace in the war, and we have, surprisingly, been refused. The Russian ambassador informed us that the order to keep the war open is from the top, the President of Russia himself finds our state of war valuable. We can't be certain why, but the most likely answer lies in Japan's mutual protection pacts.



The Chinese government is currently organizing a set of war games that will be run opposite the Sol war games. Current participants are Spain, Romania, Malaysia, Japan, Canada, and as of yesterday, Ukraine. We thank our Chinese allies for the use of Hainan Island for the betterment of the Japanese Imperial Forces and the opportunity to bring our countries closer together.



South Africa has been going through an uncharacteristic period of internal conflict. Some interpersonal conflict among strong personalities has led to a wave of government resignations. South African luminary Enoch Root has gone so far as to move to back to his ancestral United States.

The future of diamonds, South Africa's most important resource, in the new economic module has many Afrikaners concerned. It is unclear what will replace them, and if the replacement is a weapon precursor, this may make South Africa even more attractive to foreign invaders.

Rhetoric about the retaliation against Brazil has died down and been replaced with questions as to where the United States has gone; a feeling familiar to those of us in Asia.



The New World's most populous country, Poland is a very turbulent nation. Controlling vast swaths of what once was Germany and France, Poland regularly faces insurrection in the form of resistance wars, both local and foreign-funded. The political situation is equally unstable, with the President Smrtan facing two impeachments. This first apparently started as a drunken dare, the second (successful one) coming in response to the loss at North of Brazil, which cost Poland its iron, in addition to a tremendous amount of gold. The current president of Poland is Andrew6w6, who as of this writing is “suspended for using system exploits.”

For Japan, Poland is somewhat of a concern. Now one of the world's key military powers, having dealt upwards of three million damage in recent battles, Poland is also responsible for infringing on the sovereignty of many states, not the least of which are old Japanese allies like France and Germany. They also appear at first glance to have invaded the Czech Republic, it is in fact part of a project to unite them with Slovakia into a new Czechoslovakia for safety and protection.

Overall, the Ministry's policy toward Poland is to 'wash our hands' of the situation.

-The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Reiji Mitsurugi, NnK
-外務大臣, 禦劍令治, 日本の声