WORLD WAR II 1941 1945
THE START OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR
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to gain living space and farmland
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to gain natural resources
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to gain reparations
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to gain a military advantage
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Detailed explanation-1: -Faced with severe shortages of oil and other natural resources and driven by the ambition to displace the United States as the dominant Pacific power, Japan decided to attack the United States and British forces in Asia and seize the resources of Southeast Asia.
Detailed explanation-2: -Reparations amounting to US$200 million (72 billion yen) were made to Burma, and US$223.08 million (80.3088 billion yen) to Indonesia. The Soviet Union waived its rights to reparations from Japan, and both Japan and the Soviet Union waived all reparations claims arising from war.
Detailed explanation-3: -After World War II, a number of treaties were signed to make sure countries like Greece, Israel, and the Soviet Union were compensated for the destruction caused. Those who lost the war were therefore required to pay the victors. The only Allied country who won but paid compensation was the USA, to Japan.
Detailed explanation-4: -But after World War II, Herbert Bix explains in “Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan, ” that “Virtually the only reparations that Japan would ever have to pay-a mere 1.02 billion dollars worth of goods and ‘services’ spread out over many years-were to the Philippines, Indonesia, Burma, and (later) South Vietnam.”