What was the nature of the Japanese cabinet crisis after the Battle of Taierzhuang?
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Up to the battle of Taierzhuang, the Japanese government hoped for a "limited" war in China, in which they would occupy the Shanghai-Nanjing and the Beijing-Tientsin corridors near the coast, and make peace, or at least a cease-fire in place with China, and prepare for war against stronger countries like the Soviet Union and the United States. In essence, it was a "declare victory and go home strategy."
This hope was defeated by two forces: 1) the Japanese army, and 2) the Chinese, both of whom were "out for blood." The Chinese had defeated the Japanese at Taierzhuang by using superior numbers in confined spaces, and the Japanese army wanted revenge.
The Japanese cabinet had three choices: 1) pull out, which was totally unacceptable; 2) a negotiated peace, now made infeasible; and 3) all out war. Although the last was now the only real option, the Japanese Cabinet went through considerable anxiety in deciding to pursue it.
Source: The OP's Taierzhuang link.
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As page.2 and page.3 are not readable (anyone going to pay for that $38? I'm really curious about the content)
From first page:
But meanwhile the defeat has had its repercussions in Tokyo, where Prince Konoye's Cabinet was said to be facing a crisis on the issue of mobilizing the national full strength for the China warfare.
As I didn't find any report of this "Cabinet Crisis" from Japanese historical data, these are all I got. On April 15, 1938:
- First Konoe Cabinet, lead by Fumimaro Konoe, whom on behalf of the Japan government, he published First Konoe Announcement on 16 Jan, 1938, three months before Battle of Taierzhuang. Which said: "日本政府は国民政府との話し合いを自ら放棄し、戦争終結の手がかりを失うことになった。" Translation: "Chinese government refuse to communicate with Japanese government on their own, thus the chance to cease war had ended."
- An "National Mobilization Law" was legislated twenty days before Battle of Taierzhuang, on 24 March, 1938. They want to make this happen as soon as possible: "The National Mobilization Law had fifty clauses, which provided for government controls over civilian organizations (including labor unions), nationalization of strategic industries, price controls and rationing, and nationalized the news media. The laws gave the government the authority to use unlimited budgets to subsidize war production, and to compensate manufacturers for losses caused by war-time mobilization."
Political statement often implied specific meanings. As there are no obvious evidence of this "Cabinet Crisis" from Japanese historical data and from the timeline detail of this page, and with 1) and 2), they might just attempt to seek for international support, and domestic support for that aggressive war toward China.
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