As part of the postwar restructuring in Japan, power is taken from the Shogunate and granted to the elected Diet and the cabinet. The Empire of Japan is then incorporated into the world order of the Cold War immediately after the cessation of hostilities, and are promoted by the United States as their most important ally in the Far East during the post-war reconstruction. The Empire of Japan, which the Allies had re-conciliated with, avoided unconditional surrender, but were placed under substantial US control, with several policies effectively turning the former Axis nation into a vassal state of the United States.A global framework consisting of the United Nations, North Atlantic Treaty Organization, and the Warsaw Pact nations is established. The world becomes focused around the ideological conflict manifested by the war between the two major powers, the United States and the Soviet Union, and the Cold War begins between the East and West.Western culture such as the celebration of Christmas did not seep into Imperial Japanese postwar culture as deeply as it did in real life. As the Soviets did not invade, the Sakhalin Northern Territories of the Kuril Islands remain in Imperial possession. As the war ended earlier for the Empire of Japan as compared to real-life events, Operation Shō-Go 1 (the Battle of Leyte Gulf), Operation Ten-Go 1 (the Yamato's suicide mission at the Battle of Okinawa), and the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings did not take place.Germany temporarily occupied most of Europe, but following the European counterattack, the United States dropped a pair of atomic bombs on German territory, securing victory for the Allies. The end of the war between the Axis powers (Germany, Italy, and Japan) and the Allies (the United States of America, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics). From the commencement of hostilities, to the invasion of Malaya, the attack on Pearl Harbor, the Philippines campaign, and the invasion of Hong Kong all take place. December 8 th - War in the Pacific breaks out.
War breaks out between the Axis powers and the Allied nations. The capital city is switched from Edo to Kyoto, and a centralization of power is pressed forward. The head of the Motosuu Government - the Seii Daishogun (政威大将軍, roughly " ruling great general") - is nominated by the emperor from amongst one of the family heads of the Five Regent Houses. Afterwards, the Motosuu Government, organized by the Five Regent Houses, the major samurai families of Koubuin, Ikaruga, Saionji, Kujou, and Takatsukasa, is installed. The daimyos of the anti-shogunate-overthrowing faction and the families positioned to accede to the shogunate merge, establishing the restoration of imperial rule. Formation of the Motosuu Government (元枢府) in Japan.