Word: asia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...There were bred Japanese hates, fears and hopes which only war could release. There too, in a vast segment of the earth almost unknown to the U.S. people, swirled forces which deeply involved the U.S. and, at least in Japanese minds, committed the U.S. to a final war for Asia...
...armies, returned formal sovereignty over the invaded territory to Russia, kept some trading concessions-and never forgave the U.S. Once again, just as in the earlier Russo-Japanese War's aftermath, the U.S., all unknowing, had indelibly-imprinted itself in Japanese minds as an enemy of Japan in Asia...
Sharpen the Blade. A unique segment of the Japanese army is the Kwantung army, and Itagaki is its master. He and his companions in conquest shaped it for a single purpose: the extension of Japanese sway over northern Asia. The creation of Manchukuo achieved part of this aim; only attack on Russian Asia can complete the scheme...
Japan's main targets are bound to be two: Vladivostok in the southeast, and the famed Trans-Siberian Railway, the long and vulnerable artery of Russian Asia (see map). Since Russia lost the shorter, more direct Chinese Eastern Railway through conquered Manchuria to Vladivostok, the Trans-Siberian has been the U.S.S.R.'s only land link with her Pacific port. And the Trans-Siberian is perilously open to attack: by land and air from northwestern Manchukuo, by land across the wide but easily passable Gobi (which, for all its fearsome reputation, is more like Nebraska and the Dakotas than...
...well pleased if they can storm Vladivostok by land, air and sea, slice up the Trans-Siberian, come to rest near Lake Baikal, retake the rich half of Sakhalin which they lost after winning it 17 years ago. Then they will have a sufficient barrier between Russia and Japanese Asia. They will have removed, at Vladivostok, an ever-present threat of Russian or U.S. air attack on Tokyo itself. Russian aid to China will be completely shut off, and Chiang Kai-shek's resistance may finally be smothered...