Page "Tanaka Giichi" Paragraph 14

In 1929, China accused Tanaka of having authored the " Tanaka Memorial Imperialist Conquest Plan ", which advocated the conquest of Manchuria, Mongolia, and eventually the whole of China.

He was alleged to have presented the plan to the Emperor in 1927.

The plan was presented as fact in the wartime propaganda movies Why We Fight, which also claimed that plan envisaged the conquest of America after East Asia.

In a memoir published in the mid-1950s, a Japanese-born Taiwanese businessman Tsai Chih-Kan, claimed that he had personally copied the " Plan " from the Imperial Library on the night of 20 June 1928, in a covert action assisted by several of Japan's leading pre-war politicians and officers who were opposed to Tanaka.

Per this account, many Chinese history textbooks consider the document as authentic.

Today, most Japanese and western historians regard the document as a forgery.