who is amakasu masahiko? hes a famous secret-policeman, assassin, ex-con, and now leader of manchukuos kenpentai (secret police). he hires 100 military contractors (i.e. crooks) and forms a mob called uchifuji in fentian city, a second syndicate in harbin, and an incipient drug and intelligence operation in shanghai. through his chinese underworld contacts, he obtains military secrets which help the japanese army win battles. to give his gang total control of harbins underworld, he has to get the japanese army to invade harbin (thereby driving out the chinese cops, and rival gangs too). so, dressed as a chinese terrorist, he drives around by himself in a fucking car full of hand grenades, going on a 3-day-long drive-by. while his friends call the japanese army and beg for help. japanese agricultural depression throws even more people out of work. mancuria invaded. the moga trend peaks. the term nonsense film comes into vogue to describe slapstick, plotless cinema. 1932  in march 1, as a result of the manchurian incident, japan formally takes over all of manchuria. this sets in motion a whole chain of dominoes: instead of trying to battle china economically, trade wars, using businesses as soldiers, japan is now actually fighting china with real soldiers. chinese laborers in manchuria are now routinely enslaved, and forced to work until death, in a totally unsustainable manner. why? because japan has embarked on a course of world conquest, and needs manchuria to make enough army equipment to do that. this is called mobilization for total war. to accompany the army across the globe, they would need many prostitutes. they set up the first comfort women station in shanghai. this is just another instance  one of many in the book  of the government copying what the yakuza/underworld had been doing in the colonies all along, and turning it into official policy.
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