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“America Is Very Difficult to Get Along with”: Anti-Americanism, Japanese Militarism, and Spying, 1934–1937

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The Manchurian Incident Damaged U.S.-Japanese Relations Severely. While trust was not always a crucial issue for official diplomats, trust was a very important issue for the American and Japanese public and for the unofficial diplomats who had invested so much of themselves and their resources in healing the wounds of the 1920s, only to find in Manchuria that they no longer recognized the same ideals.

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Davidann, J.T. (2007). “America Is Very Difficult to Get Along with”: Anti-Americanism, Japanese Militarism, and Spying, 1934–1937. In: Cultural Diplomacy in U.S.-Japanese Relations, 1919–1941. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230609730_10

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