'Trouble must follow': Australia's ban on iron ore exports to Japan in 1938
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The economic sanctions imposed by Australia on iron ore exports to Japan in 1938 has not received due attention despite the importance of economic sanctions against Japan's decision to start the Pacific war. This lack of attention has its origin in the obsession with the actions and objectives of the great powers and a failure to take into account the opportunity available to small countries to take important initiatives. The sanction can be traced to 1934, when Australia decided to use Japan's reliance on imports of iron ore to finance investment in Australian weapons manufacturing.
Publication Name: Modern Asian Studies
Subject: Regional focus/area studies
ISSN: 0026-749X
Year: 1995
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Containing the crisis: Japan's diplomatic offensive in the West, 1931-33
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The decision of Japan to walk out of the League of Nations in 1933 over the Manchurian crisis is seen as an act of self assertiveness and a desire to have an independent voice in world politics. The walk-out paved the way for Japan's later link with the Axis. The attitude of the Japanese Foreign Minister at that time, Uchida Yasuya, was hostile toward Mongolia and Manchuria and he was totally against compromising with the League in the final stages. However, the Japanese diplomats made several attempts to justify Japan's actions.
Publication Name: Modern Asian Studies
Subject: Regional focus/area studies
ISSN: 0026-749X
Year: 1995
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Japan's role in the Vietnamese starvation of 1944-45
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The famine that took of toll of several million lives in Vietnam in 1944-45 was the direct consequence of the Japanese occupation of Indochina. The hording of rice by the Japanese in their military stores during the famine added to the war-time difficulties of the Tonkinese. The drought further heightened their woes. Inflation was at its peak and the policy of French colonial rulers of satisfying the Japanese demand for a conversion in regular crops ruined North Vietnam's agriculture.
Publication Name: Modern Asian Studies
Subject: Regional focus/area studies
ISSN: 0026-749X
Year: 1995
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