Word: manchukuo
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...official Japanese Foreign Office press spokesmen said flatly that Chinese were expected to organize spontaneously North China along much the lines of Manchukuo and that Japan of course could not and would not interfere in this "domestic Chinese affair...
Such conduct as this looked inexplicable to Western eyes lacking the historic focus of North China. Between 1931 and 1934 Japanese soldiers set up the genealogically ''legitimate heir" to the Throne of China as the Emperor of Manchukuo (see map), their puppet His Majesty Kang Te. The next logical step would be to seat this Manchu Emperor on the Dragon Throne of his ancestors at Peiping. To engineer such a coup, Japan sent to China her master schemer and spy, Major General Kenji Doihara who intrigued and bribed for the five North China provinces of Hopei, Chahar, Suiyuan...
...would be sacrilege for the head of one of the five Godly Families not to hope to see the blessed rule of the Son-of-Heaven extended over somewhat more of China. Manchukuo was "stolen" or "achieved" by his predecessors, according to the point of view. To say that the Prince is a "Liberal" means chiefly that he is not a frantic Japanese zealot who wants his country to bite off more of China than it can chew. To establish, as a sequel to "Manchukuo," another "kuo" of moderate size is Prince Konoye's idea of being Liberal...
...opening stages the Japanese-Russian quarrel was based on flatly contradictory statements by Tokyo and Moscow about something alleged to have occurred on the murky Amur River, which for much of its length forms the frontier between Soviet Siberia and Japan's puppet empire of Manchukuo (see map). Ambassador Shigemitsu was instructed to say that Japanese and Manchukuoan soldiers, while peacefully swimming in the Amur, had been fired upon by a Soviet gunboat, soon sunk by the avenging fire of their shore batteries. To this Commissar Litvinoff replied that a Japanese-Manchukuoan gunboat had opened fire on a Soviet...
...hours later, when due rites ha been observed, Japanese had 1,148 more gods to worship, the spirits of those who died last year fighting in Manchukuo. This new battalion brought the total ( Japan's deified warriors...