Japan's Mein Kampf: Full Text Of Tanaka Memorial (1942) By Leon Trotsky
 
The "Tanaka Memorial," often dubbed "Japan's Mein Kampf", is an infamous 1927 document allegedly outlining Japan's plan for world domination, but historians widely consider it an anti-Japanese forgery created by Chinese nationalists to incite anti-Japanese sentiment, not an authentic policy document from Prime Minister Tanaka Giichi. There's no "full text" of a real state plan because it's a fabricated text designed to frame Japan, though versions of the hoax document circulated widely, outlining steps like conquering Manchuria and China to achieve global power, mirroring themes from Hitler's Mein Kampf.
 
This wartime political tract presents the full text of the alleged Tanaka Memorial, framed by Leon Trotsky and W. J. Thomas as Japan’s blueprint for imperial conquest across Asia and the Pacific. Positioned within the genre of propaganda and geopolitical analysis, the volume argues that Japan’s military expansion from Manchuria to the Pacific islands followed a deliberate strategy outlined in 1927 by Baron Tanaka, then Prime Minister. Trotsky introduces the document as a covert master plan for global domination, paralleling Hitler’s Mein Kampf in intent and scope, though cloaked in bureaucratic language and strategic ambiguity. The text outlines Japan’s objectives in China, Mongolia, and ultimately the United States, asserting that economic manipulation and diplomatic subterfuge were key instruments of aggression.
 
Soft Cover
62 pages
In Good Condition