... General Sohachi Suzuki. Emperor Hirohito was avoiding a repetition of the Nikolaevsk Incident Despite his clear message that "a rash military expedition would antagonize the Chinese , and might well result in a replay of the Nikolaevsk Incident,"" Prime Minister General Giichi Tanaka proceeded to send the Kumamoto Division of the ... approaching for Japan. As war was underway in Southeast Asia, the question of the United States came to the forefront. The American-British-Chinese-Dutch Encirclement (ABCD) was becoming the sole conversation among cabinet members in Japan and the dire situat...

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