Word: manchukuo
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...apparent. In 1923, Fascist Italy shelled and occupied the Greek island of Corfu. There were protests in the League against the Italian bombardment, but no credible response was authorized. Then, in 1931, Japanese armed forces took over the Chinese province of Manchuria and subsequently established the puppet state of Manchukuo. Once again, despite a chorus of denunciations, the League was unable to thwart the vicious imperialism of an autocratic regime...
...Japan's fractious Kwantung Army, originally sent to the Kwantung Peninsula just east of Beijing to protect Japanese rail and shipping interests in Manchuria. After ultranationalist Kwantung officers murdered the Chinese overlord of Manchuria, Tokyo installed a puppet regime in 1932 and proclaimed the independence of what it called Manchukuo. Despite calls for sanctions against Japan, outgoing President Herbert Hoover had no enthusiasm for a crisis, and the incoming President Roosevelt was preoccupied with the onrushing Great Depression...
...three years. The militarists in Tokyo who wanted war prevailed partly because the U.S. insisted at a crucial juncture in the 1941 negotiations that Japan pull all of its troops out of China. The Japanese took "China" to include Manchuria-which they had occupied in 1931 and renamed Manchukuo. In fact, the U.S. meant to exclude Manchukuo. Had that point been clear, Toland asserts, war would have been postponed-or avoided entirely. It was only in 1967, he says, that the surviving Japanese leaders learned what the Americans intended. "If we had only known!" said General Kenryo Sato, a Tojo...
...after more than a decade as their "war prisoner." Last Emperor of China's Manchu dynasty, thick-spectacled Pu Yi reigned briefly as a child before losing his throne in China's 1911 republican revolution. Quarter-century later, the Japanese set him up as puppet Emperor of Manchukuo, but he again got the boot when World War II's end brought the defeat of his sponsors...
...girl was 19, and a princess-Aishinkakura Eisei, niece of Henry Pu Yi, the Japanese puppet "Emperor of Manchukuo [Manchuria]," who is now a prisoner of the Chinese Reds. The boy: spectacled Takemichi Okubo, 20, the son of a railroad executive. Both were students at Gakushuin University in Tokyo...