What happens to Japan depends on what version of Twilight 2000 you have - in the first edition they get away untouched from the war - there is no mention of them being hit at all, in fact in the Soviet Vehicles Guide it specifically mentions how that most of the information gathered on the Soviets came from a defecting Soviet General in August of 2000 and from information gathered by the Japanese during their efforts to find trading partners among the nations that rose from the Soviet Union after the war.
Remember that was when it had the Russians having significant forces in Vietnam during the war and even in 2000 still.
2300AD was developed using that information so you could see why it has Japan as the France of the Pacific.
Now if you go to the revised timeline edition of Twilight 2000 you now have the Russians fighting the Japanese for Sakhalin and islands the Soviets took from them at the end of WWII (Kuriles) and that front that was in Vietnam is now in Sakhalin and the Kuriles.
The specific reference in the 2nd edition is as follows:
Japan: The war with the Soviets over Sakhalin Island and the Kuriles brought Japan under nuclear attack in late 1997. Japanese industry was heavily damaged, and Tokyo was all but destroyed. Martial law was neverformally proclaimed, but most areas are governed by military officers who hold both civil and military positions. Each community counts as insular or independent, although they all are nominally under central control. The large cities are devastated, mostly from the civil unrest that followed the breakdown of the world economy and the cessation of foreign imports.
Now that Japan is the one that Rockets Red Glare was written for in the last issue of Challenge. So what you see in that magazine depends on what edition you are using and what timeline.If you are using the original then the article doesnt apply.
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