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Tanaka Giichi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (480 words) |
 | Tanaka, with influence from Mori and his cohorts, announces new interventionist policies concerning Manchuria and Mongolia. |
 | Within the next year, thanks to the machinations of Mori and the Kwantung Army, Tanaka would be forced to resign after the Kantogun attempts to formulate a crisis and seize Manchuria. |
 | In 1931, China claimed him publicly to be the author of the 1927 "Tanaka Memorial" Imperialist Conquest Plan, advocating the conquest of Manchuria, Mongolia, and eventually the whole of China. |
| AllRefer.com - Giichi Tanaka (Japanese History, Biography) - Encyclopedia (279 words) |
 | Giichi Tanaka[gE-E´chE tA´nAkA] Pronunciation Key, 18631929, Japanese statesman and general. |
 | He is famous as the alleged author of the so-called Tanaka Memorial (1927), purporting to set forth Japan's plans for foreign conquest. |
 | The downfall of Tanaka was hastened by his failure to control army extremists who assassinated the Manchurian warlord Chang Tso-lin, and by the charge that signing the Kellogg-Briand Pact "in the name of the people" infringed the sovereignty of the emperor. |