This week: Japan’s military and civilian leaders find themselves at a crossroads in Manchuria in the 1910s, as views begin to split around what the point of Japan’s presence there even is. As Russia and China collapse into civil war, the new liberal post-WWI order will see the beginnings of a very different vision of what Japan’s purpose on the Asian mainland even is.
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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