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Around the 22nd of December, an investigation was launched into the crown prince at the time, Andre157, following a supposed threat of rebellion. This investigation, dubbed operation Kaiserfall, turned up evidence of the prince attempting to manipulate the system and japanese players, through the use of his in-nation clan, Ooka, to try and seize power for himself. After the investigation was made public, Andre was purged from the Japanese government and discord and Ooka members were relocated and reorganized. However, the threat of a rebellion was still imminent, as Andre still held a town on the Japanese mainland. As a precaution, the nation 4.1badname, or Japan2, was renamed to Ooka to discourage the creation of a nation. The crisis was considered over as the supposed "deadline" for the creation of the nation had passed, although the status of Nagaoka is still unknown. Following the crisis, 2 immediate policies were enacted in an attempt to prevent similar events, being the reinstation of a public voting system and the Forever Emperor doctrine, which states that the current emperor, Enigma731, would continue to remain emperor, negating the need for a crown prince. The remaining clans within Japan were heavily criticised, as the Nagaoka Crisis marked the 2nd  time that a clan had attempted to seize power for itself, but no law has been put into place. Japan did bounce back in the end, gaining further public support and expanding its colonial ambitions.

On December 5th 2021, the player Techv settled the town of Kimosaki on the northwestern portion of the Korean peninsula on the Yalu River. Later, on December 12th, the town of Dandong was settled on the opposite coast of the river by Comrade_nosepoo2 on behalf of [[liao]]. Disputes over claiming in the area quickly arose, and in order to protect its interests, Kimosaki claimed 2 chunks over the Yalu River. This action had angered Dandong's mayor, as well as his overseer qbsb147, however, in the end, Dandong had ended up going inactive for about a month, and Kimosaki had continued expanding on the Korean peninsula. Then, once again in early January 2022, Dandong had asked Kimosaki to back off from the Yalu River, and as Kimosaki had now had more chunks on the other side, they refused. This led to Dandong attempting several times to claim-block Kimosaki on the west and north, with all attempts being rolled back by moderators, resulting in over 1.2k gold being wasted on claims by Liao. During these claim-blocking attempts, Dandong had crossed over into the Korean peninsula, as well as planted the town of panda_island south of Kimosaki. These actions, along with the previous disputes between Cangzhou and Izu of November of the same year and the founding of the town of PingXingGuan off the coast of Sendai, Japan declared war on the Chinese Union, with both sides stating the violation of each other's claims to be the justification. This war, known as the [[Sino-Japanese War]], saw major conflict within the first few weeks of its declaration, with dozens of casualties being reported on either side and thousands of gold spent on setting up claims and colonies. With the help of the GEAC and Rajasa, various anti-Chinese nations were made on mainland China, including Xixia, Yan, and ROC, which is a jointly-administrated nation between Japan and the Phillipines.

On March 3rd, Yllalen, leader of the [[Kingdom of Joseon]], abdicated and appointed TessSeymour as Queen, which angered many of its citizens as the coronation had gone against the Joseon constitution. After her coronation, Tess proceeded to join Russia on March 3rd, during which Joseon citizens attempted to hold a vote to impeach her, but were banned and muted in retaliation. As Joseon is in Japanese-controlled Korea, this event was shunned by Japan as being a European invasion of its territory. Talks began with both [[True Russia]] and the [[Russian Empire]] in an attempt to dissolve the situation, however, talks with Russia quickly fell apart. Japan and True Russia decided to publish an ultimatum against both Joseon and Russia that stated Tess was to give up the crown to CharleyCheno, former crown prince of Joseon, and the next day, Japan had joined the greater conflict of what is known as the [[Russian Civil War]].