The Making of Japanese Manchuria, 1904-1932

“Lurking behind the deceptively specialist title of this monograph lies an important and engaging book… In the described historical events, Japan found itself pulled deeper and deeper into a quagmire that led to a disastrous war. Matsusaka uses a chronological approach to examine the roles of the Foreign Ministry, the Army, and the South Manchuria Railway. The result casts great light on a crucial phase of Japanese imperial history while at the same time enthralling the reader with a tale to compete with a good novel.”—R.B. Lyman, Jr., Choice