| Tanaka Memorial | |
|---|---|
| Original title | 田中上奏文 |
| Created | 1927 |
| Media type | Strategic planning document |
| Subject | Strategy to take over the world |
| Purpose | Ostensibly developing strategy, now widely considered an anti-Japanese hoax |
The Tanaka Memorial (田中上奏文, Tanaka Jōsōbun) is an alleged Japanese strategic planning document from 1927 in which Prime Minister Baron Tanaka Giichi laid out a strategy to take over the world for Emperor Hirohito. The authenticity of the document was long accepted and it is still quoted in some Chinese textbooks,[1] but historian John Dower states that "most scholars now agree that it was a masterful anti-Japanese hoax."[2]