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...mother bore him in Iwate Prefecture, the Samurai grip on the Japanese army had been broken for twelve years. Until 1873, only the sons of Japan's warrior caste could be officers; and, until a very few years before that, ingrown Japan was uninterested in the schemes of conquest which alone could develop military imperialists. As it was, Seishiro Itagaki was free to join and rise in the new army. Japan in his boyhood was storing up the ambitions, greeds and hatreds which first exploded upon the white man's world in the year when Itagaki graduated from...
That year, 1904, had a meaning which the world is only now beginning to understand. It was the year when the Japanese struck the Russians at Port Arthur and defeated them. It was the year when the Japanese first tested themselves, their arms and their creed of conquest against an occidental power. And, with 1905, it was the period when their hatred of the U.S., already born, was rooted in them. For it seemed to the Japanese that Teddy Roosevelt, waving the white man's big stick and dictating the Treaty of Portsmouth, saved the Russians' in Asia...
Food-Weapon of Conquest (Canadian documentary about food's role in World War II; TIME, June...
Last week the Japanese steadily unfolded their plan to: 1) complete the conquest of China; 2) eliminate China as a base for U.S. assault on Tokyo's home islands; 3) immunize Japan's new "Co-Prosperity Sphere" from harassment and blockade...
...Conquest alone will not achieve this rail belt, and thus lessen Japan's dependence on her vulnerable sea communications. Japan will have to complete the chain with at least 600 miles of new railway. Furthermore, any Shanghai-Singapore route will be workable and safe from Allied air attack only if interior China is conquered. But the prospective rewards for Japan are great. Forestalling them is one job for the new U.S. Air Force in China, one that will take more planes than the U.S. had in China last week...