Shigori Shingen himself lands at the beaches of the Philippines and begins to construct a stronghold. There is further expansion into Siberia and Alaska.
Bloodsworn Rangers make contact with elements of the Japanese heading north. They offer to aid the Japanese expansion north in exchange for permission to create outposts in their northern lands and roads going to their coastal enclaves.
Receivers make notice of this and offer tech aid to the Japanese in return for a alliance and trade agreement plus for each other to have outposts in each others lands
My demands Gri, you give me everything you own, or you give me that island and territory south of China as well as you become my puppet, and if you are disloyal, the punishments shall be cruel, understood?