Peace In Their Time

Episode 146 - Indigestion

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While the Kwantung Army ran roughshod over Manchuria in defiance of all orders coming out of Tokyo, events back in the Home Islands didn't remain static. The crisis caused a nationalistic frenzy among leaders, in the media, and in public opinion. A surge of domestic terrorism in the spring of 1932 would fatally undermine elected government, as Hirohito and his advisors turned towards hand-picked leaders they believed could navigate Japan through the crisis they were in. 

 

Bibliography for this episode: 

 

  1. McClain, James L A Modern History of Japan WW Norton & Company Inc, 2002
  • Duus, Peter The Cambridge History of Japan, Volume 6: The Twentieth Century Cambridge University Press 1988
  • Young, Louise Japan's Total Empire: Manchuria and the Culture of Wartime Imperialism University of California Press 1998

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