As Japan enters the 1920s, national policy becomes increasingly liberalized–but Manchuria remains a holdout of extremists who, if anything, begin to take a more aggressive position on the “China Problem.” How did that happen–and how did that aggressive position, seemingly overnight, become normalized back in Japan proper?
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Matsutaka, Yoshihisa. The Making of Japanese Manchuria, 1904-1932
Yamamuro, Shin’ichi. Manchuria Under Japanese Dominion
Mitter, Rana. The Manchurian Myth: Nationalism, Resistance, and Collaboration in Modern China
Young, Louise. Japan’s Total Empire: Manchuria and the Culture of Wartime Imperialism
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