| "SMR"(South Manchuria Railroad Company) was a special economicorganization during the Japan’s invasion in China, it undertook the responsibility andthe function which is far more than an economic institutions can do,"SMR " not onlyrepresented Japan for trade in the world scope, but also helped the Japanesegovernment to complete some diplomacy tasks which can not be completed incommon way, so, the observation upon "SMR in the world scope can provide us awindow of understanding the Japanese government’s diplomacy activities.On thesurface, this plan was a pure economic behavior, but in essence it carried bothJapanese financial policy and he foreign policy. Therefore this subject will help usget to know some inner and outer polices of that time of Japan better.This paper consists of three parts as introduction, the main text and theconclusion, while the main text is divided into four chapters:The second chapter introduces the background of this plan, including thebackground of"SMR" and its own operating conditions, the Japanese domesticpolitical and economic environment, the international environment of the East Asian.Understanding the corresponding background can help to fully understand thecontent mentioned.The third chapter introduced the progress of how this plan was going on.Thischapter divided this chapter into2little parts, as the progress of negotiation in theUS in1927and the negotiation progress of SMR with the capitalists of the USduring the past10years. The introduction of the second little part will help us betterunderstand the nature of this debt plan, as well as the attitude of the United Statesgovernment on this project.The forth chapter gives the raising reason of this debt plan. In1927,there are2reasons behind this debt plan, as the economic reason and the diplomatic reason.This chapter is divided into two little sections to discuss them sep-erately,and finallyconcludes that it is the economy especially financial reason decided the exists of this debt plan,but it’s the diplomatic reason which decide the plan occur in suchtime,just in the1927October, when the Tanaka cabinet use this plan as a strategy ofdealing with china’s condition and the attitude of The US.The fifth chapter concludes the failure reasons of this debt plan. The point ismainly put on China and the America.It is the attitude of chinese people influencethe decision of America government, while it is the judge and weigh of the Americagovernment make the plan abort finally. |
