The Yingkou freeze on November 16th stranded Doihara's emperor and wrecked Manchukuo copertina

The Yingkou freeze on November 16th stranded Doihara's emperor and wrecked Manchukuo

The Yingkou freeze on November 16th stranded Doihara's emperor and wrecked Manchukuo

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A frozen harbor on Nov 16, 1931 traps a deposed emperor unless Kenji Doihara moves him-will Manchukuo survive forty-three days?

The Yingkou freeze on November 16th stranded Doihara's emperor and wrecked Manchukuo

In this episode, we follow the steps that turned a Japanese officer into the man who tried to build a puppet state in Manchuria. It traces Doihara’s linguistic and human intelligence work, the networks he constructed, and the race against the ice - could he move a former emperor before Yingkou froze?

Person: Kenji Doihara
Event: Yingkou port freeze on November 16, 1931
Period: 1931 - the forty-three days before the ice sealed the exit
Location: Mukden, Manchuria and the port of Yingkou
Role: Head of the tokumu kikan and provisional mayor of Mukden

- He spent nearly two decades learning Mandarin and regional dialects to read people across cultural lines.
- He built an intelligence network using White Russian émigrés and women in brothels and opium dens, paid with opium.
- After the Mukden Incident he was appointed provisional mayor of Mukden and moved to secure cooperation from Northeastern Army generals.
- He had exactly forty-three days to move a former emperor across enemy-watched territory before the port of Yingkou froze.
- His method relied on offering what a man wanted most and waiting to see whether the man would keep his word.

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