What he wanted, in effect, was a universal antidote, which medical science has for years referred to as a mithridate.

To the militarists foreign conquest offered a solution to several problems at once: how to expand markets for Japanese products, how to guarantee sources of raw materials, how to restore national self-confidence at a moment of soulsearching, and how to consolidate political power at home.

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