COLONIALISM AND IMPERIALISM
IMPERIALISM IN 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: -Seeking raw materials to fuel its growing industries, Japan invaded the Chinese province of Manchuria in 1931. By 1937 Japan controlled large sections of China, and war crimes against the Chinese became commonplace.
Detailed explanation-2: -Russia refused and demanded the establishment of a neutral buffer zone between Russia and Japan in Korea, north of the 39th parallel. The Imperial Japanese Government perceived this as obstructing their plans for expansion into mainland Asia and chose to go to war.
Detailed explanation-3: -Japan viewed China’s steps toward reversing the damage of the previous century as a threat to its control of Manchuria’s railroads and of the Kwantung Leased Territory. Losing anything to China was seen as unacceptable, because of course the Japanese had spent the last 50 years desperately trying to avoid being China.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Russo-Japanese War was a war between the Japanese Empire and the Russian Empire. It started in 1904 and ended in 1905. The Japanese won the war, and the Russians lost. The war happened because the Russian Empire and Japanese Empire disagreed over who should get parts of Manchuria and Korea.