Word: manchukuo
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...Manchukuo (the three provinces of Manchuria with Jehol added) was the well-trained Kwantung Army*(see THE WAR). Its known 900,000 (600,000 Japs and 300,000 puppet troops) had probably been increased to 1,000,000 by recent arrivals from China proper. Allied statesmen had long feared that the Kwantung Army would fight on, even after the home islands were conquered, had hoped that direct orders from the Emperor would persuade it to lay down its arms...
...Virtually independent of the Tokyo Army Ministry, it had set off the 1931 Mukden incident which led to establishment of the puppet state Manchukuo...
...last choice, a two-year-old infant, is now Henry Pu Yi, Emperor of Japan's puppet state of Manchukuo...
...acquired 75% of its wealth, made it a "little Tokyo" in the Philippines and plastered big Tokyo with posters urging other Japs to settle there. Suspicious Manilans called it "Davao-kuo"-a somber reference to the process by which the Japs had moved into Manchuria, then renamed it Manchukuo...
Since then, Dictator Martínez has suppressed plots, kept order with the help of his high-paid army, his spies, and the richer landlords. He made headlines by being the first to recognize the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo, and the Spanish regime of Francisco Franco. Otherwise he kept El Salvador out of the news...