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Transmission of modern East Asian comics brought the progress of new media along with the development of media. Satire comics magazine was divided to youth cultural magazine and became popular, particularly in Japan. These magazines of the initial stage efficiently delivered comics, and were established as the foundation of Japanese modern comics. On the other hand, Manchuria was the stage and foothold to realize the old dream of advance into the continent as well as the passage of surplus products of Japan. Chinese old frontier. Abundant soybeans and ironstone on the vast land. Moreover, military strategic point that embraces the Republic of China, Mongolia, Russia, and Korea. ‘Manchuria’ was an attractive space for the imperialism Japan. It was also an alternative to solve the domestic surplus products and unemployment of Japan at once. Since the Manchurian incident, Japan needed to express a logic to justify Manchuria occupation of imperialism Japan. Lots of media corresponded to such ‘land of opportunity’, including Youth magazine. Such tendency of media regarding Japanese militarism enhancement, praise, and cooperation which began with Russo-Japanese War became more solidified until the termination of the Pacific War. This research investigated how the popular Youth cultural magazine ‘Youth Club’ justified and expressed Manchurian incident during that period, furthermore, included social and historical significance. The typical aspect of 《Syounen Kurabu》, which took the role of service, education, and brainwashing for their imperialism as well as children’s cultural book, sold in Japan, Korea, Manchuria, and China was an example of statism also in modern period. Also, it can be said a major basis to evaluate the limit of modern media and modern cultural history.