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Homusubi's Japan (Tanaka Kakuei)

Japan's postwar leaders have, for the most part, been rather forgettable. The stories of Queen Himiko, Toyotomi Hideyoshi, and Emperor Meiji have given way to a procession of Liberal Democratic Party figures in suits, the sort of people most would have trouble getting the right way round even if they had studied politics. Most of these fungible prime ministers' policy platforms have been forgettable in themselves, too, seen as little more than background noise while the so-called postwar economic miracle busied itself spreading the gospel of the electric rice cooker to each corner of the archipelago.

There are still, however, a couple of exceptions to this general rule, and the most flamboyant of these concerns a man from Niigata named Tanaka Kakuei, one of the very few postwar PMs without any form of family background in politics. Widespread corruption is nothing new in the LDP, but uniquely among its leaders, Tanaka positively embraced it, pulling himself out of poverty and right to the top of the country using every disreputable trick possible, and then using similar tactics to do what fit his (arguably peculiar) idea of 'best' for Japan and Niigata. Love him or hate him, this is one postwar PM you can't accuse of being forgettable.

JAPAN - TANAKA KAKUEI

UA - SHOGUN OF DARKNESS

Improving a tile provides a small Production boost to your nearest city.
May construct one Shinkansen Terminal building in your empire, which allows airlifting to cities connected to it by Railroad and halves the cost of Gold buildings in those cities.

UU - LOCKHEED FIGHTER

Replaces the Fighter. Upon training a Lockheed Fighter (using Production), a third of the cost of the unit is refunded as Gold.

UB - KEIRETSU

Replaces the Stock Exchange. Has a chance to convert opposing non-enemy military units which end their turn within the city's borders. The chance of conversion depends on the size of the Japanese treasury.

MOD SUPPORT

JFD's Cultural Diversity (links to the rest of JFDLC)
Gedemon's YNAEMP (v25)
Pouakai's Enlightenment Era
Unique Cultural Influence

CREDITS

Full credits can be found in the included credits.txt file. Special thanks to TopHatPaladin, JFD, and PorkBean, for helping me immensely with more coding conundrums than I can count.