Japan, the Bureaucratic War Machine | BETWEEN 2 WARS I 1931 Part 2 of 3 - YouTube (2)

go into action ah but first the NIDA castles Bela a viable reason to go to

war but you know if there isn't one you can always invent one on September 18th

they staged a false flag attack by sending in lieutenant su amore kawamoto

of the independent garrison unit with some dynamite to blow up the tracks on

the Japanese controlled South Manchuria railway near the railway junction at

Mach 10 the operation is quite silly actually the explosion is so weak that

only minutes after the detonation a train passes over the hardly damaged

tracks without any problem but this doesn't stop the militarists who blamed

the incident on Chinese saboteurs only hours after the explosion the Imperial

Japanese Army invades Manchuria more specifically the Kwantung army the most

self-willed Japanese force invades Manchuria now this is when we truly see

the effects of how the independent military and the bureaucracy of Japan

have become a self-governing force you see the Japanese central government has

no part at all in this attack they are even opposed to it for fear of angering

the Western powers the army makes rapid advances into the province racking up

victory after victory further robbing the Japanese government of any

ammunition to oppose the action faced with an inevitable fact and the prospect

of completely losing face by admitting they have no control over their own army

they finally decide to support the invasion including the commitment of

more troops predictably this all does indeed disrupt the government's efforts

to keep amicable or at least non hostile relations with the Western powers by

February 1932 Manchuria is fully occupied by the Kwantung and Korea

armies now the army favor is simply annexing Manchuria but at this point the

government does intercede instead they proclaim the puppet state of Manchukuo

and make the last chinese emperor of the Ching dynasty Icelander ROP chief

executive of Manchu cool in 1934 he will become emperor of manchu cool

despite that title it is a position he holds only to serve the policies and

ideology of the japanese military leadership that will now be a central

cog wheel in the machine pulling the world further and further

towards a global war the Kwantung army frames the occupation of Manchuria as

the starting point of a widely accepted ideal in Japan that Japan is to be the

one to unite Asia or at least East Asia this idea will soon develop into the

principle of hackle issue or all the world under one roof in other words

Japan has now taken the first step towards something like world domination

and the Kwantung army has set out on a path that will inexorably lead to armed

conflict with China the USSR the European colonial powers and finally in

December 1941 the United States of America if you'd like to know more about

some other developments in the Asian power struggle you can check out our

between two wars episodes about China the first one is right here any minute

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