War-time ally -- Intervention in Siberia -- Mastery of the Far East -- The end of an alliance -- Political and physical earthquakes -- Shadows of coming events -- The turn of an imperial era -- Developments during the Tanaka regime -- First rumbles of
the approaching storm -- The calm before the storm -- The London naval conference and internal unrest -- Ominous portents -- The Manchurian eruption and reverberations -- Internal convulsions and birth of Manchoukuo -- Increasing tensions -- Government by assassination -- Manchoukuo developments -- Japan, the league, and Great Britain -- The changing face of external relations -- The internal scene -- Manchuria, the keystone -- National policies and national defense.
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