Episode 610 – The Final Frontier, Part 6

This week on the podcast: the Japanese presence in Manchuria was never particularly large, even at its height. So how did Japanese rule in Manchuria last as long as it did? And what of the resistance?

Sources

Yamamuro, Shinichi. Manchuria Under Japanese Dominion

Matsusaka, Yoshihisa. The Making of Japanese Manchuria, 1904-1932

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

Images

Xi Xia, one of the early collaborators to come over to Japan.
Imperial Japanese Army artillery units during the attack on Jinzhou, Winter 1931.
Ma Zhanshan, the bandit rebel leader.

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