HISTORY
IMPERIALISM ASIA
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Question
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Japan wanted to continue its policy of isolationism
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Japan wanted control of of trade and natural resources in Korea.
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Russia and China wanted to control rice production in Japan.
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Japan did not go to war with Russia and China.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The war grew out of conflict between the two countries for supremacy in Korea. Korea had long been China’s most important client state, but its strategic location opposite the Japanese islands and its natural resources of coal and iron attracted Japan’s interest.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Russian Pacific Fleet was a threat to the movement of Japanese troops to mainland Asia; in response, the Japanese staged a surprise attack on Russian warships at the strategically important Port Arthur (today Lushun, China), in Manchuria, before a declaration of war.
Detailed explanation-3: -Hur suggests: Hideyoshi targeted Korea because he thought his military forces would easily subjugate it; and Hideyoshi envisioned that such an easy military campaign would help him consolidate his fledgling regime poised to control a complex web of local power blocs in Japan.
Detailed explanation-4: -The fact is that the war really began in 1931 when an explosion on the South Manchurian Railway near Mukden touched off a well-planned invasion of Manchuria. Japan struck in 1931 because China was becoming united. China’s new armies, however, were neither well enough trained nor well enough equipped to resist Japan.