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Part One: The Slavery Loving Fascist who Built Modern Japan

Behind the Bastards

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The Japanese Government Wants to Invade Manchuka, but They Don't Want To.

Yakisa are a group of nationalists who want to take over manchuria. The japanese government won't let them do it, so they stage an attack on their own railroad and use that as a pretext for invasion. These guys wind up in charge of setting up a new state in maceria called manchuka. They install pooye, who's like the last emperor of china, as like, the emperor of machuka. And there's going to be thesek autonomous agrarian villages ruled by landlords, and everyone's going to like live in harmony. Ndid that happen? We'll talk more about yakusa later.

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