FALLOUT TIMELINE
2050 - North Korean leader suffers mental breakdown; no clear successor emerges.
2051 - North Korean civil war begins.
2052 - Chinese intervene in North Korea, establishing 'protectorate'. US, Japan, and South Korea protest, but take no action.
2053 - North Korean civil war ends. Half of population dead from war and related causes; country is devastated.
2054 - South Korea and Japan ally. In practice Japan establishes 'protectorate' of South Korea. Japanese troops garrison DMZ, alongside US and South Koreans.
2056 - Russian economy collapses. Japan buys northern Sakhalin and Kuriles for 10 trillion yen, preventing total Russian collapse.
2057 - Russian - Chinese treaty. Chinese gain Siberian bases in exchange for economic aid.
2060 - Russian economy recovers. Chinese assistance ends. Russia demands return of Siberian bases; China refuses.
2061- 2063 - Russian - Chinese war. Russia defeated, cedes eastern Siberia and Outer Mongolia to China.
2064 - 2065 - Multiple incidents in Bering Sea and elsewhere raise tension between US and China to boiling point.
2066 - US - Chinese war begins. China invades Alaska.
2067 - Chinese forces turned back at Anchorage.
2073 - Last Chinese forces driven from Alaska.
2076 - US invades China.
2077 - War culminates in nuclear exchange. US and China virtually destroyed, most other countries heavily damaged. World economy collapses. World population declines from seven billion people in 2077 to little more than three billion twenty years later.
2085 - Japanese economy on brink of collapse, due to shortages of raw materials. The Japanese government decides to exert direct control over resource producing areas; the Japanese begin expanding their territory.
2090 - Japan establishes Manchurian 'protectorate'.
2095 - Japan occupies eastern Siberia.
2100 - Japan formally annexes Korea (both North and South).
2110 - Japanese establish Manchurian puppet state, with native troops. First appearance of Oni, in Greater Khinggan mountains bordering Mongolia and Manchuria.
2120 - First appearance of ghouls. Both Chinese and Japanese persecute them, believing them to be mindless cannibals. Intelligent ghouls establish communities in former urban areas, where radiation levels are too high for humans.
2130 - 2150 - China coalesces into separate states; most are ruled by military dictators. Japanese expansion halts; increasing incursions by hostile Oni and border conflicts with Russians and Chinese keep them fully occupied.
2140 - Japanese order deportation of all intelligent non-humans from their territory. Decree is widely ignored.
2160 - Jin Wei (northeastern China) makes peace with Oni, ceding control of Inner Mongolia to them. De facto establishment of Oni state.
2170 - Japanese rescind deportation decree, establish 'exclusion zones'. Some zones exclude humans, some exclude non-humans. Again decree is widely evaded.
2180 - 2230 - Ghouls become tolerated in Chinese society, although regarded as second class. Active persecution ceases.
2241 - Japanese declare war on Oni, attempt to drive them from Khinggan mountains.
2242 - Japanese are heavily defeated, retreat from Khinggan range. Oni invade northeast Manchuria, capturing ruins of Harbin.
2243 - Oni driven from Harbin, offer peace. Japanese accept.
2270 - Present day.