Hawaii
Had always been the focal point of U.S.-Japanese tensions. Known as the crossroads between Asia and the Americas, its strategic position was immensely important.
In American hands, Hawaii could serve as a springboard into the Asia-Pacific region, threatening Japan and the South Seas; in retreat, it could guard the gateway to the West Coast.
The reverse was equally true. If it fell into the hands of the Japanese government, they could free themselves from threats coming across the Pacific Ocean and even further plot designs upon the American continent.
But now, all of that was in the past. The United States had split apart, and the Japanese government no longer needed to worry about threats in the Pacific; its only strategic threat now lay in the South Seas.
After the last great war ended, under pressure from the League of Nations, the Japanese government had been forced to abandon the Hawaiian Islands. But that did not mean they had given up their ambitions toward Hawaii.
After the Japanese army withdrew, the unwilling-to-accept-defeat Radical Faction had also planted its nails in Hawaii, preparing for a future attack on the islands.
Looking at individual ethnic groups, the Japanese were the most numerous. However, the Kingdom of Hawaii was a multiethnic kingdom, and no single ethnic group accounted for more than ten percent of the population.
After George ascended the throne, he did one thing: he stirred up local ethnic conflicts, guided public opinion, and manufactured friction.
Such matters were simply too easy. The local ethnic tensions chiefly lay between whites and the Japanese. The other ethnic groups had no mother country behind them to back them up, so they kept their heads down and did not dare make trouble.
George was no fool. Of course he could not simply stir things