Northern Advance Doctrine

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Japanese strategic policy foreign policy doctrine military doctrine

The Northern Advance Doctrine was an Imperial Japanese Army strategic policy advocating expansion into Siberia and the Soviet Far East as Japan’s primary direction of military and territorial expansion before and during the early 20th century.

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Statements (48)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Japanese strategic policy ⓘ foreign policy doctrine ⓘ military doctrine ⓘ
advocatedDirectionOfExpansion	Siberia NERFINISHED ⓘ Soviet Far East NERFINISHED ⓘ
associatedWith	Japanese continental policy ⓘ Kwantung Army NERFINISHED ⓘ
consequence	shift toward Southern Expansion Doctrine ⓘ
contrastedWith	Nanshin-ron NERFINISHED ⓘ
country	Japan ⓘ surface form: Empire of Japan
geopoliticalFocus	Manchuria NERFINISHED ⓘ Outer Mongolia NERFINISHED ⓘ Soviet Far East ⓘ
goal	creation of a Japanese-dominated buffer zone in Northeast Asia ⓘ preemptive weakening of Soviet military presence in the Far East ⓘ
historicalContext	Japanese imperial expansion in East Asia ⓘ rivalry with the Soviet Union in Manchuria and Mongolia ⓘ
ideologicalBasis	Japanese militarism ⓘ anti-Soviet sentiment ⓘ
influenced	Japanese planning for potential war with the Soviet Union ⓘ
influencedBy	Japanese fear of Soviet power in East Asia ⓘ desire to secure Manchuria ⓘ expansionist ideology of the Imperial Japanese Army ⓘ
JapaneseName	Hokushin-ron NERFINISHED ⓘ
language	Japanese ⓘ
natureOfDoctrine	offensive strategy ⓘ
opposedBy	Imperial Japanese Navy NERFINISHED ⓘ
opposedDirectionOfExpansion	Southern Expansion Doctrine NERFINISHED ⓘ
policyDomain	grand strategy ⓘ military strategy ⓘ national security policy ⓘ
primaryAdversary	Mongolian People’s Republic NERFINISHED ⓘ Soviet Union NERFINISHED ⓘ
relatedConcept	Japanese continentalism ⓘ Manchukuo policy NERFINISHED ⓘ
relatedConflict	Battle of Khalkhin Gol NERFINISHED ⓘ Battle of Lake Khasan NERFINISHED ⓘ Soviet–Japanese border conflicts NERFINISHED ⓘ
scope	Northeast Asia NERFINISHED ⓘ
status	abandoned after defeat at Khalkhin Gol ⓘ
strategicObjective	acquisition of natural resources in Siberia ⓘ containment of the Soviet Union ⓘ territorial expansion into Soviet territory ⓘ
supportedBy	Imperial Japanese Army NERFINISHED ⓘ
timePeriod	World War II era NERFINISHED ⓘ early 20th century ⓘ interwar period ⓘ
usedBy	Japanese General Staff NERFINISHED ⓘ

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Japanese Hokushin-ron (Northern Expansion Doctrine) → alsoKnownAs → Northern Advance Doctrine ⓘ

subject surface form: Hokushin-ron