Historian marysb. Jenson writes, plotters had better success in manchuria. Army plotters deflected him when he arrived, with a round of party that delayed his appearance at headquarters. When he was ready to resume his mission the next morning, a bomb had already gone off on the south manchurian tracks.
The Asia-Pacific War of 1937-1945 has deep roots. It also involves a Japanese society that's been called one of the most distinctive on Earth. If there were a Japanese version of Captain America, this would be his origin story.