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The other day I went on a whim to go see a professor whose specialty was Japanese history. Cleared up a lot of long-standing confusion I had about the nature and causes of Japanese militarism. Unlike Germany or Russia there wasn't really a dictatorial party to create the same sort of totalitarian state through a sudden coup or purge, but rather a natural collusion of radical officers, politicians and industrialists over time and manifested in a chain of incidents. Very interesting.
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