Jack of Harts

The fall of Los Angeles left a power vacuum. The new Empress of Japan filled that vacuum by walking through the streets after her refugee fleet arrived. She met the people. And then she worked to rebuild her new home on the American mainland. Her people brought with them the surviving riches of the Japanese Home Islands, and a boundless determination to rebuild what they had lost. And so New Japan quickly became the center of Japanese power in the world, and they remade it in their image. Cherry blossom trees and Shinto architecture dominate much of the city in Jack’s time, though you can still see the older Spanish influences beneath the Japanese veneer. And both of those influences are tempered with Americana of all ages. New Japan isn’t a pure recreation of what they lost, but more a mixture of everything that survived the Second Great Depression.