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| | H. Okazaki on K. Kato, Japan Times, July 16 1998 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09) |
 | | However, they tried fiercely to regain their lost ground--attempts that would lead to the murder of the army operations chief Tetsuzan Nagata, who was considered their chief critic, and to the abortive coup d'etat of Feb. 26, 1936. |
 | | If Ugaki had been at the helm in 1936, the Marco Polo Bridge Incident of the following year would not have led to the Japanese invasion of China and the Pacific War. |
 | | In this particular case, as the ancient chroniclers of Lu would say, Ugaki's failure to stop Araki's appointment as war minister--the hesitation to mention him by name in his letter to Inukai--led to Japan's participation in World War II. |
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