Japanese Quotes

Question 1

Lord Hotta is on your shoulder

Answer 1

“Lord Hotta urged persuasively that Japan enter the community of nations and seek to establish the Emperor of Japan as the overlord of the world.” (Pollard)

Question 2

How easy was it then to rule China?

Answer 2

“Any bad man who could manage to seize on power become sovereign” (Pollard)

Question 3

The Chinese are going to take our resources!

Answer 3

“Spread of Chinese nationalism menaced ‘vital’ interests” (Pollard)

Question 4

How did the Great Depression cause isolationism?

Answer 4

US and industrial European nations to “insulate their domestic markets from foreign competition” (Keylor)

Question 5

International response to Manchuria’s invasion

Answer 5

“Timid and vacillating” as the US gov. continued “a wait-and see attitude toward Japanese aggression in China” (Keylor)

Question 5

Did the Japanese like the military?

Answer 5

“The wave of euphoria that swept the country confirmed the army’s predominance in political affairs” (Keylor)

Question 6

How was the Lytton Commission Report?

Answer 6

“Confined to symbolic gestures of disapproval” (Keylor)

Question 7

How does Keylor see the Imperial Way faction movement?

Answer 7

“More authoritarian measures at home and aggressive policies abroad” (Keylor)

Question 8

How did the American public see China?

Answer 8

“Growing public support in the United States for the embattled population of China” and its “sturdy, virtuous Chinese peasant” (Keylor)

Question 9

Manchukuo the Puppet

Answer 9

“Other countries considered Manchukuo’s independence a sham and that the country was really just a puppet-state.” (Dailey)

Question 10

The one that got away

Answer 10

“Japan was getting away with its unilateral aggression without inviting a hostile coalition other than the League’s censure.” (Iriye)