# Episode 608 - The Final Frontier, Part 4

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Podcast: [History of Japan](https://stenobird.com/podcast/history-of-japan-1062379)
Published: 2025-12-19T12:00:00+00:00
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## Resource

As Japan enters the 1920s, national policy becomes increasingly liberalized--but Manchuria remains a holdout of extremists who, if anything, begin to take a more aggressive position on the "China Problem." How did that happen--and how did that aggressive position, seemingly overnight, become normalized back in Japan proper? Show notes here .

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