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Russia's FSB Unveils Evidence of Japan Preparing for War With USSR in 1938
Russia's FSB Unveils Evidence of Japan Preparing for War With USSR in 1938
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MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Russia's Federal Security Service has declassified documents bearing evidence that the Japanese military was preparing for a war with the... 08.08.2021, Sputnik International
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Among the archival materials, including trophies, seen by Sputnik, there is order No. 70 to units of the Japanese 3rd Division dated 9 August 1938, which was issued during the Soviet-Japanese military conflict in July-August 1938 near Lake Khasan. It instructs the division to "increase readiness for war against the Soviet Union".Other evidence includes testimony by the last commander-in-chief of the Kwantung Army, Otozo Yamada, given in December 1949 as part of the preparations for the Khabarovsk trial over Japanese war criminals. According to the protocol, Yamada admitted that in January 1938, he "ordered the units of the 3rd Division to bring them to combat readiness in the event of hostilities with the Soviet Union".
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Russia's FSB Unveils Evidence of Japan Preparing for War With USSR in 1938
08:52 GMT 08.08.2021 (Updated: 18:37 GMT 07.05.2023) MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Russia's Federal Security Service has declassified documents bearing evidence that the Japanese military was preparing for a war with the Soviet Union in 1938.
Among the archival materials, including trophies, seen by Sputnik, there is order No. 70 to units of the Japanese 3rd Division dated 9 August 1938, which was issued during the Soviet-Japanese military conflict in July-August 1938 near Lake Khasan. It instructs the division to "increase readiness for war against the Soviet Union".
Other evidence includes testimony by the last commander-in-chief of the Kwantung Army, Otozo Yamada, given in December 1949 as part of the preparations for the Khabarovsk
trial over Japanese war criminals. According to the protocol, Yamada admitted that in January 1938, he "ordered the units of the 3rd Division to bring them to combat readiness in the event of hostilities with the Soviet Union".
