🌍ap world history: modern review

Kanji Ishiwara

Written by the Fiveable Content Team • Last updated August 2025
Verified for the 2027 exam
Verified for the 2027 examWritten by the Fiveable Content Team • Last updated August 2025

Definition

A Japanese army officer stationed in Manchuria who articulated strategic and geopolitical rationales for Japanese imperial expansion in Manchuria and Mongolia.

AP course connection

Topic 6.2: 6.2 Expansion of Imperialism

Unit 6

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