Word: manchuria
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Last group of all in the five-layered machine was the Bund organization, of which all patriotic Nipponese were members. Its influence was political. The Bunds were organized and financed by the South Manchuria Railway...
...break the ambitions of the American people and do not punish it for its unfairness, our souls will know no peace, even when they leave this world. We fought China for Korea. We fought Russia for Manchuria. The circumstances will oblige us to fight America. The war between Japan and the United States is the inevitable fate of our nation...
Sept. 18, 1931. Japanese troops, without warning, marched into Mukden, went on to conquer the Chinese province of Manchuria, set up the puppet state of Manchukuo. The Japanese Navy bombarded Shanghai; its Army moved in to kill some 100,000 Chinese...
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while the world was suffering from the effects of the Great War, the samurai, according to their plans for conquest, invaded Manchuria in 1931 and soon marched into China proper...