Email this article The path of Operation Meigo - decision-making process of the Japanese armed coup in Indochina on 9 March 1945
- Authors: Sobolevski L.M.1
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- University of Warsaw
- Issue: Vol 1, No 6 (2016)
- Pages: 205-223
- Section: Articles
- URL: https://journal-vniispk.ru/2618-9453/article/view/84230
- ID: 84230
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This paper is aimed to analyze the history how the Japanese leadership took a decision to assault the French colonial regime in Indochina on 9 March 1945. As a result of the Japanese coup d'etat, the French colonial administration was overthrown. The author assesses the general strategic situation that lead to this decision. Due to the still worsening situation at the front, French Indochina was no more a remote rear for the Japanese imperial troops combating against the forces of the Coalition, but it became instead a potential combat zone. At the same time, Japanese were preoccupied by the development of French clandestine resistance movement in French Indochina, as well as by the evolution of the attitude of the French colonial government in Indochina.
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Leszek M. Sobolevski
University of WarsawPh.D. (Hist.), research fellow at the Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Warsaw Poland
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