Word: manchuria
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...building of a Japanese empire in Korea, Manchuria, Taiwan and the South Pacific, with its grandiose government buildings, its high-minded schemes to improve the natives and its harsh authoritarianism was a form of mimicry, too. To be civilized you had to have an empire. The British had one and the Dutch and the French, so why not the Japanese? That Americans and Europeans began to resent Japanese empire-building and tried to find ways to curb Japanese ambitions was seen by many Japanese, not entirely without reason, as a form of racial discrimination. Japan wanted more than anything...
Only a nation as acutely conscious of the opinions of others as Japan was in the 1930s could have felt so betrayed by foreign criticism. After a mild censure in the League of Nations of Japan's annexation of Manchuria, the Japanese Foreign Minister, Matsuoka Yosuke, walked out of the assembly and likened Japan's fate to that of Christ on the cross - an odd comparison coming from an ultranationalist Japanese who advocated an alliance with Hitler. It was, of course, around that time that the Western image of Japan began to darken; no longer comical copycats waltzing in evening...
...liberate Asia from European colonization or, in the case of Korea, to aid the country's modernization. "None of this was for Korea," scoffs Lee Jung Hoon, an expert on modern Japan-Korea relations at Seoul's Yonsei University. "Korea was simply a stepping stone for future advancement into Manchuria and China...
...Mount Paektu on the North Korean-Chinese border--for many, the mythical birthplace of the ancestor of the Korean people. Kim's mother died when he was a schoolboy. When the Korean War broke out during his father's rule, he was spirited off to the safety of Manchuria. In the 1960s Kim is believed to have trained as a pilot in East Germany. He returned to North Korea to serve as his father's factotum. Friends describe him as a calculating politician, a man who worked even to charm his father...
Unless the U.S. is planning to confront the People's Liberation Army in the mountains of Manchuria, China is decades from posing a military threat. The Cox report exposes one thing: we continue to have significant security lapses at the highest levels of our military. ERIC J. SMITH Pontiac, Mich...