WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Ultra nationalists started operating in Japan to reduce the influence of liberal organizations . An ultra nationalist society was started in 1910 followed by the Greater Japan Nationalist Society in 1919. They believed that a glorious future lies in the hands of army.

Detailed explanation-2: -Hirohito as Emperor and the Rise of Japanese Militarism Hirohito, who as emperor was the nation’s highest spiritual authority and commander-in-chief of the armed forces, essentially fired the prime minister in 1929.

Detailed explanation-3: -By the late 1930s, Japanese militarists had near-full control of government decisions. Japan’s expanding ambitions in China led to disputes with the U.K. and the U.S., which in turn drove Japan toward Germany and Italy, historians say.

Detailed explanation-4: -With China torn by revolution in the 1920s, Japan’s militarists viewed China, and in particular, its resource-rich northern region of Manchuria, as an obvious area for Japan to expand its territory by military force and thereby solve its raw material and population problems.

Detailed explanation-5: -The Japanese nation and its military, which controlled the government by the 1930s, felt that it then could, and should, control all of East Asia by military force.