Episode 94 - The Dragon and the Rising Sun, Part 4

History of Japan

Isaac Meyer

Japan, History, Japanese

4.8 • 744 Ratings

🗓️ 28 March 2015

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

This week we look at the Second Sino-Japanese War from the opposite angle: not those who fought, but those who collaborated. We'll discuss the titular leader of Manchukuo and the head of the "reformed" Chinese regime with an eye towards shedding some light on who collaborated and why.

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1:07.2	Go to audible trial.com slash Japan to claim your copy. Hello and welcome to the History of Japan podcast.
1:11.5	Episode 94, The Dragon and the Rising Sun, Part 4.
1:17.4	This week, we're going to continue our exploration of World War II and its impact on the modern Sino-Japanese relationship,
1:24.3	but we're going to do so from a very different angle than last week.
1:28.9	Last week we talked about Chiang Kai Shack, the men who led China against Japan during the war.
1:34.9	This week, we're going to talk about two men who played the opposite roles.
1:38.8	They collaborated.
1:41.2	The story of the first man starts on February 12, 1912. On that date, a young boy who had turned
1:47.7	six only the past week did what very few six-year-olds managed to do. He reshaped the fate of his country.
1:55.8	Specifically, he did so by formally abdicating the position he had held for a little over three years.
2:02.1	He gave up the title of Emperor of China, and for the first time in 3,000 years, there would
2:07.0	be nobody to replace him.
2:10.1	Up until that morning, he had been known as the Shon Tong Emperor.
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