Word: manchukuo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...three years. The militarists in Tokyo who wanted war prevailed partly because the U.S. insisted at a crucial juncture in the 1941 negotiations that Japan pull all of its troops out of China. The Japanese took "China" to include Manchuria-which they had occupied in 1931 and renamed Manchukuo. In fact, the U.S. meant to exclude Manchukuo. Had that point been clear, Toland asserts, war would have been postponed-or avoided entirely. It was only in 1967, he says, that the surviving Japanese leaders learned what the Americans intended. "If we had only known!" said General Kenryo Sato, a Tojo...