The Making of Japanese Manchuria, 1904–1932 . By Yoshihisa Tak Matsusaka. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asia Center, distributed by Harvard University Press, 2001. Pp. 522.
本书是首部全面研究1904至1932年间日本在中国东北三省（满洲）非正式帝国的历史，解释了日本扩张主义如何使其领导人和精英无法考虑从满洲撤出。
Aside from a few articles and chapters in books, there has been no comprehensive history of Japan's informal empire in the three northeast provinces of China (called Manchuria) between 1904 and 1932. That void no longer exists. Y. T. Matsusaka's brilliant account explains how Japan's expansionist aims meant that its leaders and elites could never consider withdrawing from Manchuria.