These fires grew as following the 1931 Manchurian incident Japan invaded Manchuria then most China. ... The two main players in this vital struggle for power of the military and thus Japan as a whole were the Koda-ha which translates roughly into the Imperial Way faction and the Tosei-ha which means that Control Faction. ... So any move south into china was not favored by the members of the Koda-ha. ... Another belief of the Tosei-ha faction that contrasted with that of the Koda-ha was that the Tosei-ha unlike the Koda-ha wanted to stay on good terms with the Soviet Union and to make China ...

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Until this time, Koreans used the Chinese script. ... The UN forces, composed largely of American troops, pushed the North Koreans back near the Chinese border. China, fearing that the UN forces would not stop gaining ground at the Korean border decided to join in on the side of North Korea. ...

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