Across
- 4. The faction that believed Bushido spirit alone could defeat modern technology
- 8. The bridge whose 1937 incident triggered full-scale war with China
- 9. The parliament created by the Meiji Constitution
- 10. Rapid-combat doctrine: Sokusen ______
- 11. Warrior code invoked by the 'blood over bullets' faction
- 12. Japan's puppet state in northeastern China from 1932
- 14. Semi-autonomous Japanese army stationed in Manchuria
Down
- 1. The throne on which Hirohito sat, named after a flower
- 2. German-Japanese 1936 pact: Anti-______ Pact, against Soviet communism
- 3. Era name of Hirohito's reign, meaning 'enlightened peace'
- 5. The city whose 1931 'incident' gave Japan a pretext to seize Manchuria
- 6. Transformative 1868 period that launched Japan's modernisation
- 7. The rival 'Control Faction' that prevailed after the 1936 coup attempt
- 13. Chinese city where the worst atrocity of the 1937 campaign took place