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Japan1923-1937
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Kanto Earthquake
1923DisastrousShowed
Japanese Vulnerability
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End of Taisho Period1925 – Universal Suffrage
3.3 Million – 12.5 Million Voters
1925 – Peace Preservation LawAimed at CommunistsDiscouraged Change
1926 – Taisho Emperor diesSucceeded by Hirohito
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Rise of Ultra-NationalismPrideMass Education System1929 Depression
Exposed Japanese weakness
Anti-CommunistViolent
1930 - PM Hamaguchi
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Japanese ExpansionSeptember 1931 - Mukden/Manchurian
IncidentRailway explosionBlamed on Chinese Insurgents
Army took advantage and invaded ManchuriaSet up Puppet-State Manchukuo
1932 - Withdrew from League of Nations
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Increased ViolenceUltra-Nationalist plots
League of BloodMilitary Involvement
Assassinations of prominent Zaibatsu/PoliticiansMitsuiPM Inukai Tsuyoshi
Effectively ended Party Rule
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Military Rule
1932 – 1936Became overt in February 1936
PM Okada Assassination AttemptNationalist Coup de tat
Western outrage did little to change Japanese actions
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The Rape of NankingJuly 1937 – Marco-Polo
Bridge incidentShots/Explosions heardJapanese used as
pretext to attackAtrocities Followed
Rape/Murder/PillageChemical weapons
The Rape of Nanking is rarely acknowledged
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A Japanese Officer poses with his civilian victims.
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It is a horrible story to relate; I know not where to begin nor to end. Never have I heard or
read of such brutality. Rape: We estimate at least 1,000 cases a night and many by day. In case of resistance or anything that seems like
disapproval there is a bayonet stab or a bullet.
—James McCallum, letter to his family, 19 December 1937
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Bibliographywww.wikipedia.orgwww.cartoonstock.
comFewster, Stuart &
Gorton, Tony. “Japan: From Shogun to Superstate” Brooks Waterloo, Victoria,1988.
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Questions
What was one consequence of the Kanto Earthquake?
What was the Peace Preservation Law?What was the Mukden/Manchurian Incident?Who did Ultra-Nationalists target for
Assassination?What was the Marco-Polo Bridge Incident?