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This week we wrap up Japan in the 1920s. While the nation didn't finish the decade gripped by the militarism that would drag the nation into its later disasters, warning signs were already there. The country's ruling class became fearful of the changing times, a shift reflected in the change of monarch as Hirohito takes the throne, and Japan once again had an active emperor. 

 

Bibliography for this episode: 

 

  1. McClain, James L A Modern History of Japan WW Norton & Company Inc, 2002
  2. Duus, Peter The Cambridge History of Japan, Volume 6: The Twentieth Century Cambridge University Press 1988
  3. Mason, RHP & JG Caiger A History of Japan Tuttle Publishing 1997

 

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