Hokushin-ron (北進論, "Northern Expansion Doctrine" or "Northern Road") was a political doctrine of the Empire of Japan before World War II that stated that...

expansion was greater than elsewhere. The opposing political doctrine was Hokushin-ron (北進論, "Northern Expansion Doctrine"), largely supported by the Imperial...

purged of its more insubordinate elements, as well as proponents of the Hokushin-ron ("Northward Advance") doctrine who urged that Japan concentrate its expansionist...

conglomerates which the Kōdōha despised. The Kōdōha strongly supported the hokushin-ron ("Northern Expansion Doctrine") strategy of a pre-emptive strike against...

to fuel and grow the Japanese economy. The Army mainly supported the Hokushin-ron doctrine, which called for expansion into Manchuria and Siberia and would...

Expansion Doctrine (Hokushin-ron), which proposed an attack on the Soviet Far East and Siberia. An essential first step in the Hokushin-ron proposal was for...

clashes with the Soviet Union and Mongolia. The Japanese doctrine of Hokushin-ron, which emphasised Japan's expansion northward, was favoured by the Imperial...

plan which was called Hokushin-ron, or by seizing French, Dutch and/or British colonies to the south, a concept dubbed Nanshin-ron. Hitler, on the other...

expressed itself in the early 1930s as the "strike north" (Hokushin-ron) and "strike south" (Nanshin-ron) factions. The goal of both factions was to seize territories...

strong proponent of pan-Asianism and the hokushin-ron ("strike north") philosophy, as opposed to the nanshin-ron ("strike south") philosophy espoused by...