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Episode 609 - The Final Frontier, Part 5

Podcast: History of Japan
Published: Dec 26, 2025
Duration seconds: 2205
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Summary

In the last episode of 2025: a bomb "mysteriously" goes off just outside Mukden during the evening of September 18, 1931. Less than six months later, Manchuria becomes an "independent country." Japan's government loses complete control over the army, all over the issue of its new "Manchurian Lifeline." And suddenly, for some reason, the last emperor of China is back! Show notes here .