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| | EC403 Japan Lecture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09) |
 | | Leading politicians in favor of civilian control were often assassinated by young officers, and the Japanese military came to dominate Japan's government. |
 | | In 1931, Japan took control of Manchuria, the northeast portion of China, and set up a puppet government called Manchuguo under the last Manchu Emperor, who had abdicated as a boy. |
 | | In 1937, Japan invaded China proper, crossing the Marco Polo Bridge in Beijing into North China and also attacking along the East, moving from Shanghai upriver to the Chinese Republican capital of Nanjing, forcing the Chinese to move their capital upriver to Chongqing, in Sichuan province. |
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