[PeterPrinciple]

Japan and Manchuria

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A June 20, 1945 reference: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3022806?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents

According to this, Manchuria was a source of gold: http://globaljournals.org/GJHSS_Volume10/10-Japan-Looted-Gold-Resources-in-Northeast-China-during-World-War-II.pdf

[bert]

also noted in the article was the statement that after the Borneo oil was cut off, the Japanese were extracting oil from Manchurian shale

that was 1945