This is the hardest path in the focus tree, as it causes a civil war to erupt in the country and if the communists win, it will also cause the entire Japanese Navy, all of Japan's colonial possessions ( Korea and Mengkukuo) and most of the generals and field marshals to revert to Manchukuo, which becomes independent. The Unthinkable Option Branch The Communist branch is based around the idea of establishing a Communist state in Japan with the possibility of either joining the Soviets or forming a faction with Communist China. The Japanese national focus tree can be divided into 7 branches:

Clicking on the branches leads to the appropriate section.