2. I want to focus on the period leading up to the Japanese invasion of Manchuria. Spence does a really good job setting the tone for the many conflicts of the period and I would like to look at the relationships between the Japanese and the Chinese individual citizens living in the region.
3. My first source is The Blue Lotus (The Adventures of Tintin) by the Belgian writer Herge. It's a comic book but has a story line that says a lot about international perspective on the Manchurian occupation as well as the Chinese perspective.
4. My other source, Manchurian Legacy: Memoirs of a Japanese Colonist by Kazuko Kuramoto, is a primary source from the Japanese perspective. The memoir gives a good view of colonization as a duty to the Japanese nation and support for its expansionist policies.
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