Episode 535 – The Road to Disaster
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This week on the Revised Introduction to Japanese History: the descent towards the Second World War. Why did the leadership of imperial Japan start a war many of them were aware they were unlikely to win? And how did the failures of the Meiji system enable the descent into militarism and defeat?
Sources
Hotta, Eri. Japan 1941: Countdown to Infamy
Drea, Edward. Japan’s Imperial Army: Its Rise and Fall, 1858-1945
Iriye, Akira. Power and Culture: The Japanese-American War, 1941-1945
Mitter, Rana. Forgotten Ally: China’s World War II, 1937-1945
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