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Original Articles

The Army that Never Was: The Unrealistic 1936 Kwantung Army Plan for an Inner Mongolian Army

Pages 171-183 | Published online: 09 Sep 2013

Archival Sources

  • Self-Defence Force Archives , Tokyo . Bōeichō shiryōkan [
  • ‘Genzai ni okeru Semenofu shitai henseihyō’ [Current Strength of Semenov's Military Force] (8Aprilcard no. 32, in Rikugun file box no. 36: ‘Senyaku Shibiri[a] shuppei’, subsection: ‘Rogun kankei shorui’
  • Kantōgun sanbō honbu [Kwantung Army General Staff], ‘Nekkashō yori mitaru Mōko minzoku ni tsuite’ [The Mongol Race as Seen from Jehol Province] (26Octobercard no. 351, in Rikugun file box no. 1: ‘Sōgun’, subsection: ‘Manshū jihen’
  • Kantōgun sanbō honbu [Kwantung Army General Staff], ‘Tai-Mō (seihoku) shisaku yōryō’ [Outline of Policy towards Mongolia [northwest]] (card no. 178, in Rikugun file box no. 1: ‘Sōgun’, subsection: ‘Man-Mō’
  • Kantōgun sanbō honbu [Kwantung Army General Staff],‘Tai-Naimō shisaku yōryō’ [Outline of Policy on Inner Mongolia] (25Julycard no. 659, in Rikugun file box no. 56: ‘Sensō shidō’
  • Kawabe Torashirō, ‘Ichigaya yori Ichigaya e 3/7’ [From Ichigaya to Ichigaya 3/7], card no. 139, in Rikugun file box no. 58: ‘Chūō sakusen shidō’, subsection: ‘Kaisō shuki’
  • Matsumuro Takayoshi report to Koiso Kuniaki (24Januarycontained in ‘Mōko ni kansuru shoruitei moto rikugunshō shōshō Matsumuro Takayoshi’, card no. 568, in Rikugun file box no. 56: ‘Sensō shidō’
  • ‘Mōkokoku kensetsu ni kansuru iken’ [Opinion Regarding the Construction of Mengkukuo] (contained in ‘Mōko ni kansuru shoruitei moto Rikugunshō shōshō Matsumuro Takayoshi’, card no. 568, in Rikugun file box no. 56: ‘Sensō shidō’

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