Word: japanism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...short, I doubt if Japan can check the growth of Chinese patriotism. It is too late. Every new railroad, every Japanese sentry, every step in the inevitable industrialization of China will tend to increase it. A people who until eighty years ago regarded themselves, not without justification, as the center of the civilized world, are not likely to forget their past. Remembering it, they are not likely to acquiesce in the domination of invaders who, in order to maintain their power, must seek to reverse the current of China's modern intellectual development. Friction will result, for a long time...
Puppet governments are expensive, however, and it is in this respect that Japan's resources will be strained. Her puppet governments can keep their Chinese subjects quiet only by an outlay of money,--for Japanese gendarmes to maintain order, for puppet Chinese armies of soldiers who must be fed in order to keep them from banditry (a form of unemployment relief), and for public industrial works to make the conquered territory return a profit to Japan...
This is a high price to pay, for it means that, in order to control Chinese territory permanently, Japan must develop it and speed industrialization. And yet if industrialization goes forward, will Chinese nationalism lag far behind? Remember that Manchuria had been Chinese for hardly more than a generation, whereas North China is the oldest inhabited part of the country...
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...Japan will be further strained in proportion as she is obliged to combat the nationalist government by conquering more and more territory. Will control of the coast be enough? Can she stop half-way in the conquest of China? The tendency will be sooner or later...