Why is Japan being attacked?

First of all, I want to clarify something many people have been asking me: is this a real attack or is it fake?

The current attack on Japan is real and serious.

As you all know, Japan is a neutral merc state. But for a long time we were not; we played geopolitics.

Where does this attack come from?

It is the convergence of three stories.

Story 1: Granjero and Argentina

A long time ago, Japan and Argentina were great allies. Our relationship was very good, especially during Granjero’s first presidency.

However, toward the end of Ñ, Granjero began his second presidency. After releasing the African colonies, which caused controversy at the time, Granjero had a clear objective: to wipe Uruguay.

Japan was allied with both countries. It was decided to support both sides equally, dealing the same damage for each. However, Uruguay put up a much larger bounty (that bounty of 2 — beautiful). In the end, the damage was uneven, but there was still strong support for both sides.

Something broke, though.

Granjero never forgave the gesture. In the next serious battle Japan had, Granjero issued a green order for us, something that was taken very badly in Japan given all the previous help we had provided to Argentina.

Granjero later went to Nigeria, and after some time, to South Korea.

But now the story needs the other elements.

Story 2: The Jabonic Lodge

Our first encounter with the Jabones was in the first MU tournament, where they beat us in the finals. Up to that point it seemed like nothing more than a healthy rivalry between two great groups. But the Jabones never wanted it to stay healthy.

After that tournament, the Jabones developed an obsession with Japan, almost as a consequence of Japan’s previous friendship with Venezuela and the Jabonic Lodge’s hostility toward Venezuela.

Even after Japan switched to mercenary mode, the story did not change. Under Jabonic leadership, Argentina never hired Japan despite multiple offers. The campaign claiming that Japan was a Venezuelan proxy annoyed the ronins.

On top of that, in every tournament Japan played, the Lodge supported whichever opponent we faced, regardless of nationality. We thought it was just rivalry, just folklore.

But it wasn’t.

When Uruguay took its revenge against Argentina, Uruguay hired Japan for that battle. It was our first mercenary contract. Japan did 424k throughout the battle. But to this day Euler still says that Japan was key to wiping Buenos Aires that day. Let me tell u sth: they lost for a lot more than 424k.

A strong grudge over that event still persists on the Jabonic side. And Granjero casually was in South Korea...

And this story is still missing its third leg.

Story 3: Rock

Japan’s history with Rock is longer than the previous two.

I met Rock in CoS, the first great alliance in this game. Rock, then a young congressman, took on the responsibility of representing Argentina in the alliance during MasterExegamer’s absence. We quickly got along well, and Japan helped Argentina and Chile put their differences behind them and forge the friendship that continues to this day.

Later, Rock broke CoS, formed Ñ, had internal problems, and left Argentina.

Some time later he reappeared, launching his own project in Thailand. That is where our paths crossed again.

Japan, still in geopolitical mode, helped Rock and the ladyboys tremendously. For free. Simply out of sympathy for a new project that had to face major powers in the middle of the Culo–Pablo war. And even here Japan collaborated well with the Jabones through Kikenia in that part of the world.

Memory in this game is fragile, isn’t it?

Returning to Rock: once he left Thailand and moved to the Vatican and later to Chad, the story became one of two mercenary groups competing against each other.

The problem is that some have more advantages than others. Japan never liked the updates that were made to the game, many of them designed or proposed by Rock. We saw a systematic plan to nerf mercenaries while benefiting mostly Rock. That is when the rivalry stopped being so healthy. Contracts, words, gestures, messages, a possible plot that never even got beyond talk — we all know the story.

And that is where our three protagonists meet, united by a common objective.

The Combined Story: The Attack

With everything decided, now we know that these three groups planned this attack for months. They chose to strike at Japan's worst possible moment: right after a tournament.

Everyone knows Japan loves tournaments. After all, we've won six of them.

The attack began two days after the most recent final, which happened to be against the Jabonic Lodge.

With most of Japan's players either in eco mode or exhausted after the tournament, this attack was never about competing, despite what Granjero claimed in his latest article.

It is a systematic plan for revenge, rooted in very old grievances, misunderstandings, issues that were never cleared up, and rivalries that were never truly healthy. They simply chose to exploit Japan's weakest moment to carry it out.

Are We Trying to Gain Sympathy with this Post?

No.

We're simply trying to provide clarity.

Some people invested an enormous amount of time, 4 month or more, in an online game to plan this. They studied every move we made. They even convinced old friends (Ricky, why?) to join them.

To join in wiping the only country in this game that has never been wiped.

Japan has never remained unwiped by luck, but because we were always able to defend ourselves when the conditions were fair. They knew that perfectly well.

Four months of farming, combined with striking at our moment of greatest weakness.

That was, and still is, their strategy.

As for us...

We're still here.

And we'll remain here.

No matter what happens.

Whether people like it or not.

No matter how many times the system nerfs us.

We're here.

And we'll stay here.

Ready.