Hiroshi Kayos

Hiroshi Kayos, EM (香代巣宏 Kayosu Hiroshi; June 26, 1912–October 22, 2001) was an El Kadsreian politician, theorist, general and the founding father of El Kadsre. He was the president of the KSR from 1940 to 1950, president of El Kadsre from 1950 to 1958 and president of East El Kadsre from 1958 until he was overthrown by West El Kadsreian forces in 1968. He was known by El Kadsreians as "the father of El Kadsre". Before he formed the Kadsreius Sentanese Republic, he was a general serving the Sentanese Army.

Kayos survived several assassination attempts, such as one associated with Sentan in 1951 and another by MI6 in 1962.

Andrew Kayos, his youngest son, is currently the leader of the opposition of El Kadsre.

Early life
Hiroshi was born in Abeta on June 26, 1912. At the time of his birth, New Edo War was taking place, where the New Japanese government fought against the monarchists led by future emperor Asuka. He was educated at Abeta Elementary School until 1920, when he and his moved to the Sentanese capital of New Salta when he was eight years old. There, he was educated at Endaka Elementary School and later Kuzuzawa High School. Kayos’ heroes from his boyhood on were George Washington, Kouji Kawaguchi and Jurou Hayashi.

Military service
After leavinf Kuzuzawa High School, he was recruited at the Imperial Sentanese Army in 1931 after spending two years at the military academy. He rose up the ranks until he became a general in 1938.

Exile on Kamakiri Island and formation of Kadsreius Sentanese Republic
On December 8, 1939, he was purged from the Sentanese Army after the members of the army part of Asuka's inner circle discovered his consiracy to overthrow the royal family and transition Sentan into the republic. He was arrested, convicted of treason and was exiled to the deserted island of Kamakiri. He remained in Kamakiri Island developing his survival skills until a month later on January 6, 1940, when Kouji Kawaguchi and his 200 strong army rescued him and sailed to what's now known as the Eirabourne Pennisula, where they settle Eirabourne and established the Kadsreius Sentanese Republic.

Eight-Day War and the formation of El Kadsre
In 1950, Kayos and his forces invaded most of Sentanese Empire's three of four main islands of the Sentanese Empire and Vicnoran Kingdom's land, leading to the Eight-Day War, although he never planned the invasion of Sentanese Empire's capital, Fusa. With the help of Mahri, Kayos led KSR to victory, and resulted in the creation of the Republic of El Kadsre and New Salta was renamed to El Kadsre City.

On July 6, 1956, Kayos and his Narthernese counterpart Peruka Naku, established the Aritonesian Treaty Organisation, a US-backed intergovernmental millitary alliance created to counter communist influence in Aritonesia.

Inter-El Kadsre conflict
In 1958, El Kadsre was divided into three: West, East, and North. Kayos led East El Kadsre as a military dictatorship. The military and the National Party of El Kadsre had near complete control over the media and press, and political opposition was repressed. Kayos sents troops into proxy wars including the Welchemens War and the Vietnam War.

On August 21, 1962, Kayos was giving a speech in Caelum in the ceremony celebrating the ten-year anniversary of United Nations' recognition of El Kadsre when Walter Paul, a MI5 spy sent to assassinate Kayos in retaliation for the assassination of West El Kadsreian president Edward Gibson two years prior, fired two gunshots at Kayos from the front row, in which Kayos both missed two shots. While the first shot stuck at the podium, the second shot strucked his wife Miku Kayos, who later died that day. Kayos then placed the East in marital law for three months and Walter Paul was later executed.

In 1968, he was overthrown by the West El Kadsreian army and exiled to the Ikeda Islands.

Exile on the Ikeda Islands
During the Vlokozu Union era, Kayos spent most of his time running a hotel in Lincoln Island, named the Kayos Inn. He had befriended his former opponent Michael Vlokozu, and Vlokozu would often grant Kayos permission to travel with him on humanitarian tours. He also helped run the Ikeda Pocketbike for Charity race from 1978 to his 2001 death.

He was awarded the Order of El Kadsre alongside his son Andrew Kayos in 1999, by David Vlokozu at Hiroshi's Ikeda Islands home.

Death
On October 22, 2001, Kayos died peacefully after a brief illness. He outlived his third wife Miku Kayos by 39 years and his second daughter, Tsubame Kayos by 8 years. He was survived by his fourth wife Ivonne Awaya and his children.

His funeral was held on November 10, 2001 and it was aired live on El TV Kadsre 1. It was reported that 1.4 billion people watched the funeral worldwide.

Personal life
Kayos had five children throughout his life, and had four wives throughout his life. His third wife Miku was killed in the assassination attempt against Kayos in 1962.

In addition to his Japanese native, he could also speak English, Filipino, French, Spanish, Korean and German fluently.

Beliefs and ideology
Kayos was an nationalist, a republicanist and a social democrat. During his military career, he attempted to transition Sentan from the imperialist territory into the democratic republic by secretly overthrowing the Asuka regime.

Kayos was widely known as both the anti-monarchist and anti-imperialist, as he called monarchy "obsolete and pointless" His hatred on monarchism dates back to 1937, when he was involved in the San Isiza Uprising while serving in the Imperial Sentanese Army, which called it a "moment of realization of the brutality and evilness of the imperial Sentanese regime". He also hated communism because he believed that "selfish sadistic" communists "wanted to destroy the world with their totalitarisms and take away people's freedoms in the name of "so-called equality". Later on in his life, he was more soft-spoken on subjects such as the political status of post-Vlokozu El Kadsre, the and the Communist government of.

Kayos believed that the British Empire existed and recognized Australia, West El Kadsre, Raland, India, New Zealand, Malaysia, Eruowood, South Africa, and Canada as British puppet states. During his later life, Kayos was a active supporter of republicanist movements in El Kadsre until his death, which he called people who campaiged El Kadsre to go republic "the most destined human beings chosen to make what I wanted my country to be".

Even though he was originally thought to be right-wing and conservative, he began to express progressive viewpoints after being aware of the Gaipat massacre in 1953. He also began to be more skeptical of capitalism, as he began to describe the "dark side" of capitalism as exploitative, alienating, unstable, unsustainable, and creates massive socioeconomic inequality, and is anti-democratic and leads to an erosion of human rights while it incentivises imperialist expansion and war, as in the case in the future communist republic of Guenung which had been fighting for independence from Britain since 1946. However, he continued to have mainly conservative economic views, but some socialist elements were included.

Kayos was a major supporter of civil rights, believing that racism is a international problem that needs to be solved by all means and he outlawed hate crimes against ethnic minorities and any use of racial slurs against them. In 1964, he said in the speech regarding the civil rights movement in the United States, "Nobody is deserved to be criticized by the color of their skin. No matter where they come from, they're allowed to come to El Kadsre anytime they want because we're free from racism."

Legacy
Hiroshi Kayos was a national hero within El Kadsre. His birthday, known as “Hiroshi Kayos Day”, is designated as the public holiday and has been celebrated since 2002. In El Kadsreian schools, students were taught about Kayos’ life in the positive light, where they been told he exposed the villainous nature of the House of Asuka, the rulers of imperial Sentan, brought multiculturalism to the country and led his country to prosperity. There are around over 30 statues of him all over mainland El Kadsre and the external territories.

While El Kadsreian nationalists, right-leaning people, centrists, and elders who spent their adulthood in the Kayos era praised him in the positive light, some far-left-leaning people, pro-monarchs and extreme Vlokists criticized him over his brand of authoritarianism, his hypocrisy about his status as a social democrat and his crackdown on his political opponents.

Michael Vlokozu took some elements of Kayosism for use in Vlokism.

In popular culture
Shouhei Fujita portrayed Kayos three times, first in Long Live the Emperor in 1970, second in Kayos' Final Bang in 1985 and third in Whenever Are We Going? in 1996.

Andrew Kayos, his eldest son, later portrayed him in the 2002 documentary comedy film Vlokozu, the 2003 musical drama film The Last King of Vicnora and the 2007 drama film Verlamenn