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Pradyu Prasad - Imperial Japan, the God Emperor, and Militarization in the Modern World

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The Importance of Having Powerful Friends

Japanese military planners saw this model they built their government world, the government, including trade policy and everything was Imperial Germany. The problem was Imperial Germany lost World War One. So why do they want to use their resources in Manchuria for doing it? And so but they didn't do that. They just walked into Japan. That was mistake number one. Japanese atrocities in East China led to American mission, mission movies in China going to America and reporting it to the American public. All of our other Japanese olive boys came from America. It's like 97% or something like that.

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