Word: manachukuo
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These proposals are based on a Japanese contention that the ancient 5-5-3 ratio is outmoded, for the following recently developed reasons: Japan's need of a large navy to protect Manachukuo and the status quo of the Far East; her economic necessity of concentrating in small rather than large ships; her fear of heavy American and British navies in the Pacific as an actual threat to herself, and her determination not to brook the superiority complex of the Occidentals in their efforts to limit the size of her armaments...
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