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I'm glad you liked the post. I don't have much to offer in English, not because Western researches are bad, but because I haven't read much. But recently I've been reading more Western researches and particularly found "The Way of the Heavenly Sword: The Japanese Army in the 1920's", the book...

Misconceptions about the Kodoha are not only wide but also tend to be wild, because it can be hard to understand the contexts that gave rise to the faction. Maybe some clarifications could be help in discussing this topic. I've been waiting for @Persephone's post, but looks like it's not coming...

This one was, by the way, said in 1933, not 1944, in an interview with George Bernard Shaw.

The problem with any Kodoha 'what if' is that, the Kodoha themselves hardly had any kind comprehensive political vision. Only thing that united them is the vague notion about returning to the value of the Meiji Era. The Wikipedia article on the Kodoha can safely be scrapped completely with this...

1. Someone stronger than Wakatsuki Reijiro as the prime minister. By stronger, I meant someone with actual political legitimacy and personal charisma. The power of civilian government was very dependent to that of the prime minister, but Wakatsuki wasn't an elected leader, he wasn't even elected...

In more formal language Silla was also styled as 乐浪 (Lelang) or 鸡林 (Jilin) referring the Silla monarchs' official Chinese title within the Sinocentric system.

As I said, the accepted mainstream history that understood Goto and Matsuoka as the proponents of the continental alliance against the US needs not be a dogma and should be free to the criticism but you are not providing substance in disputing and ridiculing a respected historian. I can wait...

I suppose reading a translated article like that can be fuzzy for a native English speaker but you glossed over where Miyake cites Nomura Minoru for attributing the document to Matsuoka and that the document being found from Konoe's personal house library. You are free to deride a mainstream...

It's a lengthy article, but you may want to read Masaki Miyake's writings on this subject. Fortunately unlike the ones I posted before, there's an English edition available, if that helps.

Neither were violently and virulently anti-soviet. The man you just described 'the first Boy Scout of Japan' is also the one who started the preliminary negotiation for the Soviet-Japanese Treaty of 1925, and of 1928, visiting Soviet Union as a personal emissary of General Tanaka Giichi in...

During the 1920-1930s more than plenty in Japan did hate the US more, believing allying with the Soviets would enable Japan to counter the Western influence in Asia and achieve power balance, championed by Goto Shinpei in the 1920s and succeeded by Matsuoka Yosuke after Goto's death. The sheer...

Of course it didn't happen, who in a sane mind wants to introduce literal private military organizations to a completely demilitarized nation that had been known for military coups and officer disobedience?

Launching an invasion is one thing, maintaining it is another, and the Japanese in 1941 maintained their operation from Indochina.

Truman would not invade Spain to begin with. To quote myself; Such leadership can't come from Truman. It needs to be and must be someone else to let this happen.

A hypothetical WA leadership that decides to invade Spain, against all rational reasons, just to win a favor from the Soviet Union, probably will not only allow Communist operatives to run the country but actively help them.

I doubt the Japanese fleet had enough munitions and fuels for that.

We are talking about the 1920s, not the 30s. It wasn't about the British influence over China but about curtailing the Nationalists. It was the civilian government that refused the British idea despite of the military's ardent call to arms.

I feel this point is debatable. If anything was Japan who rejected appeals from the Washington Treaty parties, particularly the 1927 British suggestion of an international armed intervention against the Nationalist-occupied Nanjing. This rejection was one of the black marks that tarred the...

He's going by this map. That said, it's not 1936 map. The actual starting map so far is supposed to be more of a North-South divide.

By that point the post-war purge was reaching its height and officers were getting arrested here and there for the Tokyo Trial. Any remilitarization efforts are likely to result in a glorified militarized police force led by Home Ministry bureaucrats, which actually was the case for the real...