The Gaikoku Republic in honor of the Tokugawa Shogunate, commonly referred to as the Gaikoku Republic, was a nation that existed between 1870 and 1935, and was the successor of the Tokugawa Shogunate and the later Republic of Ezo, after Gouvernor-General Ferdinand Tillens of the Commonwealth of the Draguan Islands relocated several thousands of Ezo separatists, voluntarily, to the then called Draguan Southern Archipelago in 1869, and later separatists to Leade Island. Even though the Gaikoku Republic didn't become a feudal dictatorship, many traditions and normalities were carried over from feudal Japan.