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Music Hello everyone and welcome to History of the Second World War, episode 51,

The Second Sino-Japanese War Part 2, Moving South.

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Last episode, we discussed why Japan was interested in establishing an area of control in China

and why that area would be Manchuria.

We, of course, know that the establishment of the puppet state of Manchuria or Manchuko

would not be the end of the adventures of the Japanese in China, and instead, they would

endeavor over the course of the next decade China, and instead they would endeavor over the course

of the next decade to extend their influence. And during that expansion, they would eventually

fall into a full-scale war with China. This episode, we will first look at why the Japanese felt

they had to constantly increase the territory under their control before looking at the

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