For the second time in four years, Unity Defense Corporation was contracted and deployed to Japan and South Africa. Many soldiers of the fabled 1st and 2nd Armored Divisions were veterans of the 2011 War on the RWA. When the Paternian Republic, more specifically the PRMC, was engaged with RWA forces near Hokkaido, The 2nd Armored Division landed in Tokyo Bay for the second time, prior to the landings elite FRB (Force Recon Battalion) secured the bridges, unlike what happened in 2011. Just like the previous conflict, there was heavy fighting, but this time UDC had the "slight" (by slight I mean major) advantage that the entire garrison in Japan wasn't focused in one place. Street to street combat was again commonplace, and it eventually stalled out, leaving the same battle lines for two weeks before a distraction was made: the invasion of South Africa. Meant purely as a distraction, to draw RWA troops away from Japan. This distraction Force was only there long enough to ensure that the RWA troops from Japan were redeployed to South Africa, leaving them to empty patrols with the only clues being 5.56mm shell casings.
When the distraction force was redeployed back to Japan a week later, the 2nd Armored pushed through the rest of Tokyo into the Japanese countryside. Then the advance was much quicker. The PRMCs Victoria MBTs and our M28 Basilisk MBTs easily swept aside RWA A-102 MBTs, and eventually RWA leadership in Japan was so diminished by assassinations by FRB that many RWA troops surrendered, as well as giving UDC a single A-102. Pretty soon, the entirety of Japan was freed. Losses were a lot less than in 2011, about 24,500 troops, 30 tanks, 103 helicopters, and 45 fighters. Bomber losses totaled about a dozen, which isn't bad considering the amount of missions flown.

But the war was not over. This is part one of the two part story of the 2014 Japan War as well as the other major theatre of this war.