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Show how the presence of a weak and helpless China next door brought about the rise of militarism and collapse of democracy in Japan.

  • UPSC 1994
  • Imperialism and Colonialism

A strong, unified China would have contained Japan within its home islands; a weak, fragmented China instead became the very field on which Japanese militarists built their case that only the army, not fragile party politics, could secure the nation's future.

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  • China as the Enabling Condition
  • The Military's Growing Autonomy on the Mainland
  • The Erosion of Taisho Democracy

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