JAPANESE MAKE THIRD ATTEMPT TO CAPTURE CHANGSHA
Changsha, Hunan Province, China • December 24, 1941 In the years since the political upheaval that brought Emperor Meiji to power (1868–1912), the Japanese began looking to the Asian mainland as a wellspring of new mineral, agricultural, and human resources to exploit for their use, benefit, and advantage. In the mid-1890s and 1905–1910 Japan brought the…