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* EasterEgg: If the player uses cheats to somehow make the Revised Labour Standards Ordinance fail, [[https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/806276324297539586/1071995869047570532/image.png a message from the Guangdong dev team will pop up, expressing amazement at how they managed to get the RLSO shut down]].
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* EasterEgg: If the player uses cheats to somehow make the Revised Labour Standards Ordinance fail, [[https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/806276324297539586/1071995869047570532/image.[[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/20240324153230_1.png a message from the Guangdong dev team will pop up, expressing amazement at how they managed to get the RLSO shut down]].
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* InnocentlyInsensitive: Suzuki is irritated when Ino rushes him out of a cabinet meeting to discuss the creation of weapons for the Malayan Emergency. More offending to Suzuki, Ino is standing in his office, as if he owns the place.
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* AllohistoricalAllusion: In OTL, Lin Fengmian was a prominent Chinese artist from Guangdong, known for taking inspiration from Chinese and European styles. During both the Second World War and later Cultural Revolution, Lin had much of his artwork destroyed and, after a spell in prison, went about recreating many of his past artworks. In TNO, he does something similar, recreating many of his pre-war pieces and proceeding to tour China and make a name for himself.
* BystanderSyndrome: A Chinese family book a vacation to a hotel in Jūka. When the elder brother goes the reception, he sees a cleaner accidentally knock over a guest's cup of coffee and have her profuse apologies be met with scathing shouts from her [[BadBoss merciless manager]]. The man feels sympathetic to the cleaner, both for the verbal abuse and having her life upended by the resort, but he ignores these feelings with the justification that he needs to enjoy his vacation and there is nothing he can do for her anyways.
* CommonalityConnection:
** A group of workers in a company dorm are given an unofficial day off when their machinery breaks down. With nothing better to do, the workers bond with each other, sharing stories of their loved ones and playing a game similar to football. Some even entertain the notion of seeing a movie, but they are not allowed to leave by the guards, since they're not on an official break.
** The Zhujin and Chinese border inspection guards at Kōshu-Hankou have an unusual camaraderie with each other, sharing the same position and bantering with each other. If anything, the only difference between them is the uniforms they wear.
** Famous Japanese artist, Hirata Shōdō, has a surprisingly friendly conversation with Chinese artist, Lin Fengmian, during an exhibition. Despite coming from opposing countries, they connect over their shared interest in art and its ability to connect with anyone, regardless of nationality or language. They converse late into the evening, with Lin even confiding about his sadness about having to speak Japanese in his homeland. They bid farewell on good terms, knowing that they will probably never see each other again.
** A group of workers in a company dorm are given an unofficial day off when their machinery breaks down. With nothing better to do, the workers bond with each other, sharing stories of their loved ones and playing a game similar to football. Some even entertain the notion of seeing a movie, but they are not allowed to leave by the guards, since they're not on an official break.
** The Zhujin and Chinese border inspection guards at Kōshu-Hankou have an unusual camaraderie with each other, sharing the same position and bantering with each other. If anything, the only difference between them is the uniforms they wear.
** Famous Japanese artist, Hirata Shōdō, has a surprisingly friendly conversation with Chinese artist, Lin Fengmian, during an exhibition. Despite coming from opposing countries, they connect over their shared interest in art and its ability to connect with anyone, regardless of nationality or language. They converse late into the evening, with Lin even confiding about his sadness about having to speak Japanese in his homeland. They bid farewell on good terms, knowing that they will probably never see each other again.
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* EstablishingCharacterMoment: The first event in a Guangdong playthrough is a meeting in the Legislative Council, introducing the corruption of their members, the political bickering that the corporations wage against each other, and the role of the Chief Executive.
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* EmpathicEnvironment: Awaiting a long-desired promotion, a Zhujin member of the civil service thinks about what he could spend his money on if he gets the job. Just as gloomy clouds roll in and rain pours down, he is introduced to the Japanese graduate who was unfairly given the position over him, ruining the Zhujin person's day.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: The first event in a Guangdong playthrough is a meeting in the Legislative Council, introducing the corruption of their members, the political bickering that the corporations wage against each other, and the role of the Chief Executive. Here, Sony and Fujitsu members engage in PassiveAggressiveCombat over businesses in Kowloon, while smug Matsushita members wait to swoop in and steal those businesses for themselves, having brought up the issue to the Council in the first place.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: The first event in a Guangdong playthrough is a meeting in the Legislative Council, introducing the corruption of their members, the political bickering that the corporations wage against each other, and the role of the Chief Executive. Here, Sony and Fujitsu members engage in PassiveAggressiveCombat over businesses in Kowloon, while smug Matsushita members wait to swoop in and steal those businesses for themselves, having brought up the issue to the Council in the first place.
* ForcedFromTheirHome: The once quaint village of Jūka gets entirely destroyed and redeveloped into a luxury resort by Sony, once tourists start flocking there for the hot springs. Many of the previous inhabitants, having their lives upended, now work to serve the tourists who arrive.
* HellYesMoment: As a woman looks through the wet market for the Lunar New Year, she internally regrets moving to the city, fearing that her husband will become one of the factories' many victims or that he will be caught on in of their suicide nets. However, she gets a stroke of fortune when she finds a good deal on food to celebrate the holiday, giving them a moment of happiness together in an otherwise dreary life.
* MrExposition: One of the early flavor events shows a professor being asked about how the Zhujin identity can be natural and why it shouldn't be an ethnic hybrid rather than a status to voluntary apply for. From there, the professor goes on an exposition tangent describing what a Zhujin is, comparing it to Kyōwa-go from Manchuria and explaining that Zhujin was coined by the Foreign Ministry because Guangdong has not existed long enough for an ethnic hybrid to emerge naturally. He also adds exposition to the greater nature of Guangdong as a state, pointing out Nanjing's outrage at its creation and subtly agreeing with a sarcastic comment that Guangdong is as "natural" as Japanese colonialism being "liberation".
* NoSympathy: When a worker is pulled into and killed by a machine, either from tiredness or a lack of focus, his colleague is horrified and trembles around with tears in his eyes, knowing he will still have to return the next day. However, his manager nonchalantly documents the incident in a clipboard, showing no care for the lost life and grunting unsympathetically to the shocked worker.
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* ThePollyanna: One Chinese restaurant owner had his building expropriated at the end of World War II so that Japanese manager can replace him. He now only owns a rickey shack of a food stall to continue working, but he remains optimistic about his situation, having developed a good number of regulars to his business and still finding his satisfaction with his job.
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* ThePollyanna: One Chinese restaurant owner had his building expropriated at the end of World War II so that Japanese manager can replace him. He now only owns a rickey shack of a food stall to continue working, and works a depressing job with a rigidly strict and tiring schedule, but he remains optimistic about his situation, having situation. He's developed a good number of regulars to his business and still finding finds his satisfaction with his job.
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* ProtectionRacket: A shopkeeper is beaten and threatened by two Yakuza thugs, demanding protection money with a cleaver. The panicked shopkeeper agrees and confesses that he gave his earnings to a group of Triads the day prior, confirming the Yakuzas suspicions that [[MobWar the Triads are intruding on their turf]]. They leave the shopkeeper, but only with an order that the shopkeeper pay them a week later or else having something happen to his shop, [[AndYourLittleDogToo wife, and daughter]].
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* RichardNixonTheUsedCarSalesman: Kan Yuet-keung was the OTL Chairman of the Bank of East Asia for 20 years and a member of Hong Kong's Legislative Council and Executive Council. In TNO, half of his family moved their assets to America, but Kan still lives in Guangdong, where he was forced to adopt a Zhujin identity and manages the Bank's neglected Guangdong branch, now a Yasuda subsidiary. He regrets his decision to stay behind and expresses frustration that he cannot speak up about the injustices, but he's long resigned to living day-by-day.
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** The Kōshu-Hankou railway checkpoint between Guangdong and the rest of China is yet another symbol of the artificial division between Guangdong and the rest of China, to a point that the Zhujin and Chinese border guards are only different by their uniforms.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: The Bank of East Asia survived the Second Sino-Japanese War because of its connections to Japanese individuals, but the formation of Guangdong destabilized it enough for the Kan family to move most of their assets abroad, primarily to America. Half of the family is doing business in America now, with only a [[TheRemnant husk]] surviving in Guangdong and as a Yasuda subsidiary.
* SearchingForTheLostRelative: Hirata Shōdō conducts an art exhibition in the Japanese consulate in Honkon, nominally in support of a Greater East Asia Ministry cultural exhibition. However, he's really hoping to find his biological son, now known as Matsushita Masaharu, whom he hasn't seen in years and has unsuccessfully tried to get in contact with.
* ShelteredAristocrat: An upper-class Japanese professor has spent of his life in the Home Isles and only moved to Guangdong because he thought Japan's education system was a lost cause. In the Three Pearls, he's confused and outraged by the creation of a Zhujin identity, wondering why anyone would apply for an identity that was hastily constructed to facilitate Japanese colonialism. His views spark controversy from the Zhujin parents of his students and he later learns from a Zhujin colleague that they accepted the cultural assimilation because they did not have a choice. Being Chinese in Guangdong means living a life of oppression and poverty, so becoming a Zhujin is the only way to access the shred of luxuries afforded to the Japanese people.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: The Bank of East Asia survived the Second Sino-Japanese War because of its connections to Japanese individuals, but the formation of Guangdong destabilized it enough for the Kan family to move most of their assets abroad, primarily to America. Half of the family is doing business in America now, with only a [[TheRemnant husk]] surviving in Guangdong and as a Yasuda subsidiary.
* SearchingForTheLostRelative: Hirata Shōdō conducts an art exhibition in the Japanese consulate in Honkon, nominally in support of a Greater East Asia Ministry cultural exhibition. However, he's really hoping to find his biological son, now known as Matsushita Masaharu, whom he hasn't seen in years and has unsuccessfully tried to get in contact with.
* ShelteredAristocrat: An upper-class Japanese professor has spent of his life in the Home Isles and only moved to Guangdong because he thought Japan's education system was a lost cause. In the Three Pearls, he's confused and outraged by the creation of a Zhujin identity, wondering why anyone would apply for an identity that was hastily constructed to facilitate Japanese colonialism. His views spark controversy from the Zhujin parents of his students and he later learns from a Zhujin colleague that they accepted the cultural assimilation because they did not have a choice. Being Chinese in Guangdong means living a life of oppression and poverty, so becoming a Zhujin is the only way to access the shred of luxuries afforded to the Japanese people.
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* WickedCultured: A group of Japanese senior bureaucrats and executives meet in the Teikoku Hotel, formerly the Peninsula Hotel, where they dine to finest foods and smuggled foreign delicacies all while gossiping about the politics of Guangdong and Japan with [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain extensive use of slurs against the Chinese]].
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* EasterEgg: If the player uses cheats to somehow make the Revised Labour Standards Ordinance fail, [[https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/806276324297539586/1071995869047570532/image.png a message from the Guangdong dev team will pop up, expressing amazement at how they managed to get the RLSO shut down]].
