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The is an alleged Japanese strategic planning document from 1927, in which Prime Minister Baron Tanaka Giichi laid out for the Emperor Hirohito a strategy to take over the world. Today it is generally considered by scholars to be a forgery. ==Background== The ''Tanaka Memorial'' was first published in the December 1929 edition of the Chinese publication "時事月報" (''Current Affairs Monthly'') in Nanking, a Nationalist Chinese publication. It was later reproduced in 24 September 1931, pp. 923–34 of ''China Critic'', an English publication in Shanghai.〔.〕 The memorial contains the assertions: The English translation of this document was in circulation before February 1934, and formed the foundation of the lead article on the front page of the first edition of ''The Plain Truth'' magazine published by Herbert W. Armstrong in February of that year,〔.〕 although it had first appeared in the less widely circulated ''Communist International'' magazine in 1931. The ''Tanaka Memorial'' was depicted extensively by United States wartime propaganda as a sort of Japanese counterpart of ''Mein Kampf''. Frank Capra's Academy Award-winning movie series ''Why We Fight'', the installments ''The Battle of China'' and Prelude to War describe the ''Tanaka Memorial'' as the document that was the Japanese plan for war with the United States.〔.〕 As presented in these movie series, the five sequential steps to achieve Japan's goal of conquests are #Conquest of Manchuria #Conquest of China #Conquest of the Soviet Union #Establishment of bases in the Pacific #Conquest of the United States Even though its authenticity is not accepted by scholars today, the ''Tanaka Memorial'' was widely accepted as authentic in the 1930s and 40s because Japan's actions corresponded so closely to these plans. The 1931 Mukden Incident, 1937 Second Sino-Japanese War, 1939 Battles of Khalkhin Gol, 1940 Japanese invasion of French Indochina, and the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor and the subsequent Pacific War seemed to confirm this suspicion.〔Coble, Parks M. ''Facing Japan: Chinese politics and Japanese imperialism, 1931–1937'' p. 36. Harvard University Press, 1991. ISBN 0-674-77530-9.〕 In 1940 Leon Trotsky published an account of how the document allegedly came to light. Soviet intelligence had obtained the document from a high-placed mole in Tokyo, but did not want to compromise their own security by publishing it openly, so had leaked it through contacts they had in the United States.〔.〕 (詳細はEdwin P. Hoyt wrote that the Tanaka Memorial was an accurate representation "of what Prime Minister Tanaka had said and what the supernationalists had been saying for months..."〔Hoyt, Edwin P. (2001). ''Japan's War The Great Pacific Conflict''. Cooper Square Press, 62. ISBN 0-8154-1118-9.〕 Historian Meirion Harries wrote that the Tanaka Memorial "...was one of the most successful 'dirty tricks' of the twentieth century – a bogus document so brilliantly conceived that thirty years later Westerns were still being taken in by it".〔 Likewise, historian William G. Beasley states that "...the nature of this document, as published variously in English and Chinese, does not carry conviction as to its authenticity".〔.〕 Dr. Haruo Tohmatsu, Professor of Diplomacy and War History of International Relations at the National Defense Academy of Japan, states that "The 'Tanaka Memorial' never existed, but the Darien conference of that year adopted resolutions that reflected these ideas."〔Haruo Tohmatsu, ''A Gathering Darkness'' (2004) SR Books, p. 18〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Tanaka Memorial」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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