China Builds, Japan Arms — The Race Before WWII
Soon the tools and machines of the new factories were delivering the goods and products for China’s new economy. For the Chinese believed in using the best of Western civilization to the progress of their country and while they were building this new nation just a day and a half by steamer across the Yellow Sea lay Japan. Here, the God Emperor and his fanatic warlords were using this same Western civilization for one purpose and only one, to create one of the world’s most powerful war machines. [Music]
China’s economy was rising fast — but across the sea, Japan was forging a terrifying war machine. The world would never be the same.
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