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TANAKA MEMORANDUM

The Tanaka memorandum was a memorandum written in 1927 by Baron Gi-ishi Tanaka, the Japanese prime minister and foreign minister, which advocated the conquest of Manchuria and Mongolia as a prelude to Japanese domination over the whole of China. The memorandum also predicted that the operation would result in armed conflict between Japan and Russia. The memorandum was intercepted by Soviet agents working in the Chinese postal service, and a second copy was stolen from the safe of the Japanese police chief in Seoul by Soviet agent Ano. A copy of the memorandum was later leaked by the INO to the American press to give the impression that it had been obtained by the Americans rather than the Soviets.
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