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  2. 2nd Naval Armaments Supplement Programme - Wikipedia

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    Construction of the cruiser Tone was authorized under the "Circle-2 Plan". The 2nd Naval Armaments Supplement Programme (マル2計画, 第二次補充計画, Maru 2 Keikaku, Dai-Ni-Ji Hojū Keikaku) otherwise known as the "Circle Two" Plan was the second of four expansion plans of the Imperial Japanese Navy between 1930 and the start of World War II.

  3. 3rd Naval Armaments Supplement Programme - Wikipedia

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    Instead, a massive third expansion plan was officially ratified by the Diet of Japan in 1937, calling for 66 new combat vessels, centering on two of the new Yamato-class battleships and two Shōkaku-class aircraft carriers, and expansion of the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service by 14 more Naval Air Groups.

  4. 1st Naval Armaments Supplement Programme - Wikipedia

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    IJN cruisers Mogami, Mikuma, Kumano all constructed under the "Circle One" plan. The 1st Naval Armaments Supplement Programme (マル1計画, 第一次補充計画, Maru 1 Keikaku, Dai-Ichi-Ji Hojū Keikaku), otherwise known as the "Circle One" plan was the first of four expansion plans of the Imperial Japanese Navy between 1930 and the start of World War II.

  5. Japanese colonial empire - Wikipedia

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    Manchukuo's steel production exceeded Japan's in the late 1930s. The Japanese Army initially sponsored a policy of forced industrialization modeled after the Five Year Plan in the Soviet Union [21] but subsequently private capital was used in a very strongly state-directed economy. There was progress in the area's social systems and many ...

  6. Prelude to the attack on Pearl Harbor - Wikipedia

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    Part of the Japanese plan for the attack included breaking off negotiations with the United States 30 minutes before the attack began. Diplomats from the Japanese embassy in Washington, D.C., including the Japanese ambassador, Admiral Kichisaburō Nomura and Special Representative Saburō Kurusu, had been conducting extended talks with the U.S. State Department regarding reactions to the ...

  7. Continental Policy (Japan) - Wikipedia

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    Japan finally occupied Korea in 1910. In 1932, Japan captured Manchuria and built the puppet state of Manchukuo. Japan attacked China in 1937 and tried to finish the Continental Policy. But Japan failed to conquer China and lost in World War II, costing Japan all of her overseas land. This also symbolized the end of Japan's expansion and the ...

  8. Timeline of Japanese history - Wikipedia

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    Japanese Prime Minister Inukai Tsuyoshi was assassinated during the Japanese coup d'état. 1936: 26 to 28 February: Japanese Prime Minister Keisuke Okada survived the two days of incident. However, he left office by one month later. 1937: 7 July: Second Sino-Japanese War begins. 13 August to 26 November: Battle of Shanghai begins. 1939: 13 ...

  9. Nanshin-ron - Wikipedia

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    Japanese expansion in the Asia-Pacific after Kantokuen was cancelled. Nanshin-ron (南進論, "Southern Expansion Doctrine" or "Southern Road") was a political doctrine in the Empire of Japan that stated that Southeast Asia and the Pacific Islands were Japan's sphere of interest and that their potential value to the Empire for economic and territorial expansion was greater than elsewhere.