The Washington Post, December 30th, 1999
Excerpts from "the first rough draft of history" as reported in The Washington Post on this date in the 20th century. After consuming Taiwan in 1895, and Korea 15 years later, Japan set its imperialistic sights on Manchuria -- invading the Chinese province in 1931 under the flimsy pretext of helping the Manchurian people gain independence from China. To bolster the fiction, Japan installed the deposed Chinese emperor Puyi as "ruler" of the newly founded state. The aggressive militarism Japan had been demonstrating since the turn of the century would culminate in World War II. Three excerpts fr...
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