UNETSL: Japan
Yamada Jun, Minister of Foreign Affairs
This Minister is the top representative on behalf of the Emperor of Japan for the Japanese delegation. Yamada has access to classified Japanese information regarding military and scientific industry within the country prior to the Revolution. This includes schematics on proprietary Japanese technology that was never implemented given the rise of the Tsukumogami. The Minister believes that the primary concern of UNETSL is the reclamation of Japanese territory. As the Tsukumogami are Japanese creations, the Minister’s office is conflicted as to the fate of robot kind. They have opted for a “let the chips fall as they may” approach to the survival of the revolutionaries.
Hayashi Ren, Minister of Defense
The Minister of Defense has control of the few operational military bases in the south and is willing to put forth whatever military resources Japan has in the ongoing struggle. Having worked as a high-level military official on the mainland prior to the coup, this Minister has closely-guarded military intelligence regarding the mainland’s defense vulnerabilities. They possess knowledge of key geographical locations within Japan that may prove useful to hit the Tsukumogami where they might be vulnerable. Hayashi, however, has an unusual affinity for the military skill of the Tsukumogami. Despite of their ability to conduct well-targeted operations against the mainland, the Minister is far more interested in finding a way to turn the Tsukumogami back into tools for Human Japan’s future military ambitions. “Why let the elegant technology of man’s best killing machine go to waste?”
Sato Kohaku, Chairman of the Advanced Telecommunications Research (ATR)
Prior to the war, the computational neuroscience branch of ATR had been developing neural lace, a brain-computer interface, for humans to ‘keep up’ with the advancement of robots. This technology in effect allows its users to be connected at all times with electronic devices as well as public and private Internet. Users of neural lace report having superhuman recall and recognition capabilities. As a delegate of Japan, the chairman of ATR is primarily motivated in assisting UNETSL in expanding the use of neural lace as a potential solution to neutralizing the Tsukumogami. They also specialize in knowledge pertaining to machine-to-machine communications, which may prove useful in uncovering the tactics of robotic adversaries. The Chairman experiences, as do many Japanese citizens, an immense amount of cultural and national guilt towards the actions of the Tsukumogami, as well as the negligence of their own government, in allowing the nation to be overrun. The Chairman wishes to see the Tsukumogami “recycled back into parts more useful for human purposes.”