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This includes the Japanese takeover of Manchuria in 1931 and the establishment of the puppet state of Manchukuo; the undeclared war against China which began in 1937, leading to the expansion into the Pacific and SE Asia following the attack on the US naval base at Pearl Harbor in 1941 (the takeover of French IndoChina, the attack on Malaya leading to the fall of Singapore, the takeover of the Dutch East Indies and the eventual bombing of Darwin and sub attack in Sydney harbor) i.e the setting up of what the Japanese called the Greater South East Asia Co prosperity Sphere.

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