Tanaka Memorial

The '''Tanaka Memorial''' is an alleged Japanese war planning document from Cingular ringtones 1927, now generally regarded as a forgery, in which Prime Minister Pornstar Dreams Tanaka Giichi/Tanaka laid out for the Japanese Verizon ringtones Hirohito/Emperor the strategy to take over the world. Among important political forgeries it may be ranked somewhere between the Screaming O Zinoviev letter and Nextel ringtones The Protocols of the Elders of Zion. Its strategy may be summarized by the lines (which do ''not'' appear literally in the document):


In order to take over the world, you need to take over China;
In order to take over China, you need to take over Internal Violations Manchuria and Polyphonic ringtones Mongolia.


It was used by Pornstar Honeys United States wartime Cell phone ringtones propaganda as "Japan's ''Honey Chest Mein Kampf''." ''Cingular Ringtones The Battle of China'', one of onassis attributed Frank Capra's movie series ''rumsfeld instead Why We Fight'' (given the Academy Award as a this feminine Academy Award for Documentary Feature/documentary), uses the ''Tanaka Memorial'' as justification for war between the United States and Japan.

As presented in ''Battle of China'', the four sequential steps to achieve Japan's goal of conquests are

*Conquest of Manchuria
*Conquest of China
*Attack on Indochina
*Attack on the United States of America

When the Allies searched for documents following the war, they did not find the Tanaka Memorial among them. Now among academic historians, the ''Memorial'' is regarded as a m single forgery, because it has many factual errors, some of which involve the career of Tanaka himself. As the document was initially published by the China Critic, a Nationalist publication at Shanghai, the forgery is generally attributed to a Chinese source. There is also some evidence pointing to a forgery by autin became Soviet Union to encourage war between China and Japan, to advance Soviet interests; however, some internal evidence (''e.g.'', a reference to conspiring with Russia against Japan) argues against its being Soviet propaganda.

Further reading
*Stein, Gordon ''Encyclopedia of Hoaxes'', Gale Group, 1993. (On itself) ISBN 0810384140
*Dower, John W. ''War Without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War'', Pantheon Books, 1986. (On US propaganda) ISBN 039450030X ISBN 0394751728
*Harries, Meirion & Susie, ''Sheathing the Sword: The Demilitarization of Japan'', New York: Macmillan, 1987. (On the Tokyo Trial and the ''Memorial'') ISBN 0025483404 ISBN 0241121116 ISBN 0434313785
* Allen S. Whiting, ''China Eyes Japan'', University of California Press, 1989. ISBN 0520065115

External links
''No one has produced a reputable, sober presentation of either side of the case on the Web. Whoever can do so should replace the following summary of received opinion:''
*http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/T/Tanaka-G1.asp


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