This week: after the Russo-Japanese War, Japan inherited a rather unusual arrangement in Manchuria, which would become the basis of its empire in the region. But how, exactly, would that new empire function? And why, precisely, did it come attached to a corporation, of all things?
Sources
Matsutaka, Yoshihisa. The Making of Japanese Manchuria, 1904-1932
Young, Louise. Japan’s Total Empire: Manchuria and the Culture of Wartime Imperialism
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