Japanese Far East

The Japanese Far East is a puppet state of the Empire of Japan.

History
On June 22, 1941, Nazi Germany initiated Operation Barbarossa, and invaded the Soviet Union. With 3 million troops, Hitler launched the largest ground invasion in history. Germany made staggering progress, with huge encirclement movements capturing huge numbers of Soviet troops.

Eventually, the Germans were outside Moscow, the Russian capital. The Russian Winter then came, and the Germans were stalled in sieging Moscow. Nazi Germany then sent a request to the Empire of Japan to become allies and invade the Soviet Union. Japan accepted, and got ready to launch an attack on the Soviet Union. They did not declare war on the rest of the Allies, however.

On November 16, the Empire of Japan declared war on the Soviet Union. The Russians were now facing a two-front war, and had to bring troops to the Russian Far East, thus taking away troops from the western front and defending Moscow.

The Japanese quickly took over the northern half of Sakhalin through South Sakhalin, and also invaded Kamchatka through the Kuril Islands. Japan invaded Outer Manchuria through its puppet of Manchukuo and Sakhalin, and captured Vladivostok.

Japan had secured all of the Kamchatka Peninsula, and launched naval invasions of cities in Khabarovsk and Magadan all along the Sea of Okhotsk. The Japanese had captured all of Lake Baikal, and continued to push into the Russian Far East and Siberia.

Meanwhile, the Germans had captured St. Petersburg, the Finns controlled all of Karelia and Murmansk, and Moscow was under siege. The Soviet Union decided to sue for peace with the Japanese in order to bring troops to the western front. The Treaty of Novosibirsk was signed on May 7, 1942. The Empire of Japan annexed the rest of Sakhalin, Manchukuo annexed Outer Manchuria, and two new Japanese puppets were created: the Japanese Far East and the Republic of Yakutia.

The Japanese Far East is more closely integrated with the Empire of Japan than the other Japanese puppet states. There have been movements for the Empire of Japan to annex the Japanese Far East directly.

Languages
The official languages of the Japanese Far East are Japanese and Russian. The Japanese Far East recognizes the languages of Ainu, Chukchi, Even, Ukrainian, the Yukaghir languages of Kolyma Yukaghir and Tundra Yukaghir, and the Yupik languages of Central Siberian Yupik and Naukan Yupik as minority languages.

Currency
The Japanese Far East uses the Japanese yen as its currency. It is the only Japanese puppet state without its own currency aside from the Japanese yen. The Far Eastern ruble was a proposed currency, but never gained much popularity.

Allies

 * Empire of Japan - Thank you for saving me from the tyrannical Russia.
 * Japanese Yakutia
 * Manchukuo
 * Japanese Mongolia

Enemies

 * Russia - You got what you deserved!