Symphony in the Sky (A Your Lie in April AU and AH fanfiction)

Fly the Flag of Liberty

A/N: This chapter will be focused on the JSDF reorganization into a full-scale armed forces and the parents thought about their children in the war.

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Tokyo, April 15th, 2018.

"The joint special season of the Diet, conducted today in view of the Emperor Naruhito, alongside invited observers from the United States, Great Britain, France, Russia, and PRC had passed the Self-Defense Force Reorganization Law. The main part of the law is the renaming and reorganization of the Jieitai, with immediate effect, into a full-scale military force under the name of Japanese National Military Forces/JNMF. Each branch has been renamed under the reorganization, Japanese National Army (JNA), Japanese National Navy (JNN), and the Japanese National Air Force (JNAF). In addition, the Ministry of Defense also raised a fourth branch, the National Information Defense Force or simply as Cyber Force (JCF). The Emperor himself has publicly consented the reorganization in wake of the missile attack, a necessity to finish the "Korean problem" once and for all, and a needed overhaul of the defense force in general."

"Within hours upon the passage of the reorganization law, anti-war protesters, led by organizations such as the ANSWER Coalition (1), alongside various religious groups, trade unions, Socialist (3) and Communist (4) lawmakers, women groups, and student groups such as the SEALD (2) went into the streets of major cities like Tokyo, Nagoya, Osaka, Hiroshima, and Nagasaki. Protesters also targeted Japanese and American military facilities nationwide, largest in scale since the 1960s. The National Police Agency has ordered prefectural and city police forces to show restrain in keeping public order according to established procedures. Clashes has been reported between small groups of protesters associated with the far-left groups and members of uyoku dantai (Japanese far-right groups) in Yokosuka, Gotemba City, Sendai, Oita, Higashine, Chitose, Hakodate, and Kagoshima. Estimated 120 people from both sides has been arrested nationwide..."

"In international level, the most vocal opposition of the reorganization come from the government of Russia, China, Iran, Syria, Cuba, Venezuela, and members of the Non-Aligned Movement, with exception of several South East Asian members (Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines, Vietnam, Myanmar, and Thailand). Along with it, protests were also registered in Japanese embassies in major world cities like New York, London, Berlin, Paris, Den Haag, Stockholm, Beijing, Kuala Lumpur, Bangkok, Jakarta, Manila, Canberra, and it's trade representative in Taipei."

"The law also codified and regulated the Defense Board of Draft (5), along with National Civilian Service Program for those who declared themselves as conscientious objectors.."

Kousei's house.

"Protest whatever you want, and if we're lost and get occupied by the Nokors because of this, you people will be the first to be sent into gulag (forced labor camp)." Takahiko Arima remarked in disapproval as he, had returned home from his managerial-level work in a pharmaceutical company, watched the nightly news which showed massive anti-war protests erupted on Japanese cities.

Takahiko remembered his late father, and Kousei's grandfather, Kenichiro, which had passed away in 2017. He served in the Imperial Japanese Army during the Pacific War as a sergeant in Manchuria, was captured by the Soviet Army during the Invasion of Manchuria in 1945 and subsequently spent four years in a Soviet POW camp in Krasnoyarsk. Poor nutrition, abuse, and heavy political indoctrination in the camp both by the Soviet and collaborating Japanese officers had caused Kenichiro to be a staunch anti-communist, the view which was inherited by Takahiko and Kousei.