Excerpts from Chiang Kai-shek's diary made public.

From: Yomiuri Shimbun | Date: March 26, 2006 | Copyright information

Byline: Yukiko Furusawa

PALO ALTO, Calif. _ Chiang Kai-shek, the Chinese Nationalist Party party leader who was forced to flee the mainland for Taiwan in 1949, threatened to wreak vengeance on Japan after the 1931 Manchurian Incident, in an entry in his diary that was released Friday by the Hoover Institution at Stanford University.

As leader of the Nationalist Party (Kuomintang), Chiang was an influential figure in modern Chinese history alongside Mao Zedong, chairman of the Chinese Communist Party.

Taiwan researchers have been able to access parts of the diary, but ...

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