Japan in 1932 was insane.

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In 1932, Japan witnessed a triple-assassination of leading figures. The consequences would prove beyond catastrophic.
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Sources:
A = Danny Orbach, “Pure Spirits: Imperial Japanese Justice and Right-Wing Terrorists, 1878–1936”, Asian Studies, 6.2: 129–56
B = Harukata Takenata, Failed Democratization in Prewar Japan: Breakdown of a Hybrid Regime, (Stanford University Press, 2014)
C = Kitaoka Shinich, From Party Politics to Militarism in Japan, 1924-1941 (Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2021)
D = Stephen S. Large, “Nationalist Extremism in Early Shōwa Japan: Inoue Nisshō and the Blood Pledge Corps Incident, 1932,” Modern Asian Studies, 35.3 (July 2005): 533-564
E = Francis Fukuyama, Political Order and Political Decay, (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2014)
F = Peter Duus, Party Rivalry and Political Change in Taisho Japan (Harvard University Press, 1968)
G = Nicholas End, “Japan during the Interwar Period: From Monetary Restraint to Fiscal Abandon,” in Era Dabla-Norris (ed.) Debt and Entanglements Between the Wars (International Monetary Fund, 2019)
H = Hugh Byas, Government by Assassination, (Pickle Partners Publishing, 2018)
I = David A. Sneider, “Action and Oratory: The Trials of the May 15th Incident of 1932,” Law Japan 23.1 (1990): 1-66.
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Chapters:
00:00 I. INSANITY
06:08 II. RESTORATION
09:16 III. REFORM
12:16 IV. FAILURE
14:15 V. POWER
16:55 VI. DESTRUCTION
19:17 VII. ANALYSIS
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