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Japan's Road To War: Power Behind The Throne (Part 2)
Season 1 · Episode 969

Japan's Road To War: Power Behind The Throne (Part 2)

WW2 Pod: We Have Ways of Making You Talk · Goalhanger

April 1, 20261h 0m

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Show Notes

Why did Yōsuke Matsuoko want war with the Western Allies? How did Japanese military planners contribute to aggressive imperial expansion? What did wider events in WW2 history do for shifting Imperial Japan's war aims?


Join Al Murray and James Holland for Part 2 of this new series as they explore the warhawks and shifting geopolitics which brought an unwinnable war to the shores of Japan.


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