Mudazumo Naki Kaikaku
Mudazumo Naki Kaikaku is a Japanese satirical mahjong manga series by Hideki Ohwada. It was initially irregularly serialized in the Kindai Mahjong Original manga magazine published by Takeshobo, then switched to bimonthly serialization on Takeshobo's other mahjong manga magazine Kindai Mahjong in April 2009. An anime adaptation was released on February 26, 2010, as an original video anime.
The premise of the manga is that international diplomacy is settled on the mahjong table, with real-life politicians depicted as masters of mahjong. The Japanese title is a parody of Junichiro Koizumi's slogan, "Reform with No Sanctuary".
In June 2025, Mahjong Pros opened a publishing imprint and announced that they had licensed the series for English publication beginning in Q4 2025.
Plot
In a world where all politics and diplomacy are settled via no-holds-barred mahjong battles by world politicians, Junichiro Koizumi settled scores with the United States, North Korea, and Russia before retiring as Prime Minister of Japan. However, he is recruited by the Vatican to be one of the five world leaders to counter a new international threat: the Nazis, still alive, who settled on the Moon and established the Fourth Reich. The Nazis challenge the world leaders to a best-of-five mahjong match to the death on the Guiana Highlands, but the battle is interrupted by the news of a rebellion on the Moon. After Adolf Hitler returned from the match on Earth and put down Erwin Rommel's rebellion, he beckons Koizumi to the Moon to finish the match. After a tremendous battle, Hitler is defeated while Koizumi becomes stranded on the Moon, his fate unknown. After Koizumi is presumed dead on the moon, the Japanese government under the Liberal Democratic Party established the 13th Autonomous Mahjong Corps in an effort to make up for the loss of Japanese mahjong power. However, the LPD lost the 2009 elections to the Democratic Party of Japan, who promptly tried to eliminate the newly established corps in the name of fiscal restructuring. The MJ-13, headed by Koizumi's hidden son Matajiro Sanada, duels three mahjong greats selected by the DPJ in a battle to decide the fate of the corps. Sanada defeats the incumbent prime minister Yukio Hatoyama in the last round, which causes the latter to lose power. It is then revealed that the LDP is planning to retrieve Koizumi from the Moon through Japan's space agency JAXA, and that MJ-13 was established to prepare for an upcoming war.A challenge is issued to Japan to send five mahjong greats to the disputed Senkaku Islands, where a mysterious "red box" is threatening the safety of nearby fishermen. The ruling DPJ does not want to get involved in the controversy for fear of angering their Chinese masters, to the point of sending ninja assassins to try to kill Sanada, who desires to sail to the islands to investigate. Eventually, in the face of falling public support, the DPJ strikes a deal with the LDP to call an election early, which the LDP wins and promptly sends the MJ-13 to the Senkaku Islands. There they discover an abandoned Kuznetsov-class aircraft carrier being overtaken by Red Guards, and a preserved Mao Zedong inside the dreaded "red box". Mao challenges Japan to five mahjong matches, with each of the 5 main islands of the Senkaku Islands being the wager. Mao cites his ambition to claim the islands for his Neo Chinese Soviet Republic and eventually reclaim China from its current leaders, who he thinks have betrayed the communist cause. After Japan defeats Mao, winning all matches along the way, Lenin himself summons the mysterious figure "Mask of Mahjong" as his aide to challenge Japan to a final match. The "Mask of Mahjong" defeats Lenin in the first round, and is revealed to be Junichiro Koizumi being controlled by the head of Leon Trotsky. The war ends with the ambitions of the Neo Chinese Soviet Republic broken, and Koizumi and Sanada reuniting as father and son, both acknowledging each other's mahjong powers.
After a two-year hiatus since the end of the "Senkaku Islands Bloody Battle" arc, the manga resumed in 2017 with a sequel centering on the imperial princess Hako Mikado playing against foreign adversaries such as American president Donald Trump.
Characters
Though based on real-life politicians, the characters are, as the manga's disclaimer notes, "works of fiction and not really related to any real-life people".Japan
Liberal Democratic Party (LDP)
;Junichiro Koizumi;Taizō Sugimura
;Yukari Sato
;Tarō Asō
;Shinzō Abe
;Shigeru Ishiba
;Sadakazu Tanigaki
Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ)
;Naoto Kan;Yukio Hatoyama
;Miyuki Hatoyama
;Renhō
Social Democratic Party (SDP)
;Mizuho Fukushima;Takako Doi
13th Autonomous Mahjong Corps
;Matajiro Sanada;Okumura
;Reiji Inui
Others
;Hideki Yukawa;The Three Goddesses of Mount Osore
;Ayano Shijō
;ASIMO
;Usagi Aoi
United States
;George W. Bush;George H. W. Bush
;Colin Powell
;Hillary Clinton
;Donald Trump
Democratic People's Republic of Korea
;Kim Jong-il;Kim Jong-nam
Russian Federation
;Vladimir Putin;Dmitry Medvedev
United Kingdom
;Margaret ThatcherThe Vatican
;Pietro;Benedict XVI
Ukraine
;Yulia Tymoshenko;Eleonora Pavlichenko
Fourth Reich
;Otto Skorzeny;Richard Wagner
;Reinhard Heydrich
;Josef Mengele
;Mariel
;Hans-Ulrich Rudel
;Adolf Hitler
;Tristan Goebbels
;Isolde Goebbels
;Erwin Rommel
;Hans Speidel
People's Republic of China
;Hu Jintao;Wen Jiabao
;Xi Jinping
Tibet
;14th Dalai LamaNeo Chinese Soviet Republic
;Mao Zedong;Pol Pot
;Yoshito Sengoku
;Abimael Guzmán
;Jiang Qing
;Zhou Enlai
;Lenin
;Leon Trotsky