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| “ | Martial law is in effect. Remain in your homes. Compliance is mandatory. Offenders will be shot. |
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| ~ The IJA's announcement of their martial law once they had took over Guangdong completely. |
Nanago Shigeto is a minor antagonist and potentially playable character of The New Order: Last Days of Europe, a mod of Hearts of Irons 4. He is a Japanese military officer who serves as the commander of the Imperial Japanese Army garrison in the State of Guangdong, serving as the Japanese government's failsafe in the occupied region.
Nagano serves as the secondary antagonist of Silicon Dreams and can potentially become the villainous main protagonist of the hidden IJA's path. The said path would be triggered only if Guangdong's regional resistance and riots led by the local Chinese people went out of the executives' control.
Biography[]
Background[]
Serving in the IJA since 1940s, Nagano Shigeto was already a war criminal who participated in the Japanese war crimes in a remorseless sense.
After the World War II ended up with the Axis' victory, Nagano was sent to the occupied Guangdong, which was remodeled into a cyberpunk style of corporate state, in order to serve as its failsafe and oversee its running.
In-game[]
| “ | You are not in control. Look upon the mess you have made. Look what you made us do. |
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| ~ The game's message to players in Nagano's point of view, taunting the players as the game runs Nagano's focus tree automatically without any way to stop it. |
Nagano Shigeto would appear at first in the early events of Silicon Dreams, where he would complain about the chief executives' corruption, about how IJA soldiers being thrown into the proxy wars to benefit the chief executives' greed, and about how the State of Guangdong was a waste of time and money for the Empire of Japan.
He also makes an appearance by the end of Sony's successful path, being annoyed at the Japanese government ignoring his call for reinforcement and starting an alliance with Yokoi Hideki and Miyazaki Kiyotaka in order to bring Sony down.
However, Nagano's roles would immediately become prominent once the Oil Crisis' influence hit Guangdong. Many Chinese people under oppression seized the chance, as their worker's organizations began to resist against the State of Guangdong and the Japanese government behind it. If the Chief Executives failed to do anything about it, the riots would spread in the entire region.
Eventually, the Japanese government decided to interfere, and its prime minister permitted Nagano and his IJA forces in Guangdong to take actions. Thus, the secret IJA path began, in an unstoppable manner.
Unlike many other paths in the game, the entire IJA path of Guangdong was completely mandatory, running automatically once it started. There is also an on-screen display of the flag of the State of Guangdong, which would slowly getting consumed by the Guangdong Military Administration's flag from the left side to the right, until it was replaced completely.
The players could only watch things to happen during the whole process, with no mitigating choice given to stop it in any way, and not a single national focus had alternativea or could be cancelled once they began their running one by one. The game even broke the fourth wall during the process, by giving messages to the players in Nagano's perspective, blaming the players for everything now happening in the in-game Guangdong.
Decided to repeat the same atrocities during the Japanese army's invasion of Nanjing, Nagano led his men to slaughter the resistance and everyone in sight, no matter if they were Chinese, ordinary Japanese or Zhu Jin collaborators. The army mercilessly squashed the resistance and apprehend their leaders, along with Guangdong's Chief Executive using this as their chance.
During the following altercation and bloodshed, Li Jiacheng was beaten to death by the IJA's soldiers, while Komai died in a deserving manner by Lee Chun, a member of the Chinese resistance, who sacrificed his life soon after. The rest of the Chief Executives were all captured. Matsuhida, Tsushima Kuniyasu and Omori Kan were given life sentence, though the latter two were given chances of parole. However, Komai was given a posthumous death sentence via firing squad, Stanley Ho was executed without a trial or verdict, and the rest were all hanged.
With Guangdong completely taken over by the IJA, Nagano declared a martial law and abolished the Legislative Council and transforming the Guangdong Police Force into Auxiliary Enforcement Corps of the Military Presence in Guangdong, before his men eventually turning the State of Guangdong into the Guangdong Military Administration, which fell under IJA's control completely.
Meanwhile, in Japan, Suzuki (who was revealed to be alive and well) laughed at his rivals for their demise, once he read about the news on the newspaper, feeling lucky that he had got away with his own life.
The IJA's atrocities and tyranny had caused bloodshed and deaths everywhere, shattering the illusion of the "Silicon Dream", with most of the non-IJA characters (playable or not) in Guangdong storyline dead. Only a few survivors remained, with a number of them now began struggling with the situation.
The news shocked Gao Zongwu, who reprimanded the IJA for their crimes and decided to use it as a future reason to declare war against Japan once his modernization had completed. Meanwhile, due to sacrificing himself in ending Hitachi's reign of blood and tears, Lee Chun was hailed as a hero and martyr by the remaining Chinese resistance, known as the Guangdong People's Anti-Japanese Guerilla, who continued to resist against the Japanese occupation.
By the end of the story, the State of Guangdong was completely abolished and was put under the IJA's full control. However, it was suggested that the Chinese people inside would still resist until one day, their anger consumed the Japanese aggressors completely. As a result, Guangdong would finally awaken from its false dream.
Personality[]
Like many other Japanese generals, Nagano Shigeto is a staunch militarist and Fascist who followed the Empire of Japan and its aggressive war with a terribly fanatical state.
Nagano is also a hypocrite to the core. His only so-called "humanized" quality is his care towards his own minions and soldiers, and he is disgusted by the chief executives for their corrupt nature and their deeds of using the IJA soldiers as tools to fight in proxy wars around the world.
However, this is far from making Nagano sympathetic or redeemable even if it is a genuine feelings. Instead, it is also his self-serving excuse for his potential atrocities after he finally taking over. He glorifies the IJA's horrible war crimes at the same time he denounces the chief executives.
Above all, Nagano only sees his soldiers as "victims" in a way full of double standards, and yet he does not care about and even look down on the real victims, the Chinese people, who are massively murdered and oppressed under the Japanese government's enslavement.
Trivia[]
- The real world counterpart of Nagano Shigeto was an IJA officer in 1940s and later took part in JGSDF from 1978 to 1980, before retiring from the military and become a politician. He was notorious for his denial over the infamous Nanjing Massacre in 1994 when he served as the Minister of Justice, declaring that he "saw nothing wrong" in Nanjing during its management under the puppet regime of Wang Jingwei and Japanese occupation. He was forced to retire only 11 days after that.
- His personal leader trait in TNO is known as "As Nanjing, So Too Guangdong", which alludes to his callous attitudes towards the Nanjing Massacre and his defensive attitude for Japanese war crimes.
- Nagano's path is the first TNO playable path with an automatically mandatory gameplay, which makes everything in the path to run in an automatic and unstoppable way.
- It gives the entire narrative more atmosphere of despair, as the players could do nothing to cancel Nagano national focus from executing itself one by one, or stop Nagano from completing his horrible goals, only standing by and watch.
- Though making no direct appearance outside Guangdong storyline, it can be assumed that in Long Yun's path, Nagano was killed off-screen by Long Yun's forces along with his troops.
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