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Examples Of Japanese Ideal Of An Empire In Asia

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Japan dreamed of an Empire in Asia. In 1931, Japan made their first move to accomplish this by taking over Manchuria and establishing it as a state. Next, they moved on to China where they encountered some resistance. After failing to scare China into submission, the Japanese tried a different tactic, economic strangulation. In 1939, all of the major coastal ports were overrun, forcing the Chinese capital to relocate. During 1940, France allowed Japanese troops to enter Indochina. By mid-1941, Japan occupied Indochina and now aimed to control countries like Thailand and Burma.

Concerned over Japanese actions, The Netherlands, Great Britain, and the United States, stopped shipment of 90 percent of the raw materials Japan needed for war. The
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Japan didn’t open to foreigners until the mid-19th century. Japan quickly realized the situation and began to modernize and westernize as fast as possible. Japan wanted to be strong enough to resist domination of western imperialists who wanted Japan for their own. Japan also wanted to become the strongest Asian country. Japan’s tactics of rapid modernization succeeded, and kept the country and government independent of foreign control.

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Event #1 July 1937: the Japanese Army invaded North China from Manchuria. On the 24th of July in 1941 Roosevelt made a decision to cut off japans oil exports and other assets the United States were sending them. A few other countries also cut off exports to Japan to protest against them for invading China. As a result, Japan lost access to 75% of their overseas trade.

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In 1938, Japan announced its plan to constitute a new order in East Asia (Doc C). In this new order, the rule of the Japanese emperor would be drawn-out over Earth. This was a driving force for Japan’s invasion because of their ambitious desires. By damaging an American naval base, it gave Japan the ability to also occupy China and Manchuria leading to a rise in their military power (Doc C). Japan’s presence in more of East Asia brought them one step closer to expanding their authority.

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The United States and Japan fought in World War II during 1941 to 1945. Japan planned to expand their land and gain resources- which led them to invade China whom was an ally of the U.S. In result, the United States cut off the supply of oil to Japan. On December 7th 1941, Japan’s air force did a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor because that is where their military base is located.

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Japan had been humiliated by its allies at the Treaty of Versailles as The United States had vetoed any discussion about racial equality. The United States had also forced Japan to sign an unfair treaty in 1853, controlling their trade and resources. When Japan suffered economic depression in the 1930’s, Japan attacked China for resources. The United States and Britain were against the expansion of Japan, angering the once-reclusive country (Sczcepanski, 2017, online). Japan turned to new countries for resources including countries in the Pacific and Australia.

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Along with the affair of Manchuria and the Eastern coastline of China, the Japanese gained control of French Indochina in 1940 (Document B). Many countries took notice of Japan’s expansion of territory and attempted to become allies with

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They achieved those things mainly through expansion. In 1932, Japan established Manchuria, a puppet state located southeast of the Soviet Union. Later, in 1937 Japan began its occupation of China.(Document B) The Japanese were wary to bomb Pearl Harbor although they had planned it for a year, 80% of Japan’s oil came from the U.S. (Document D) On August 1, 1941, the U.S. cut off all trade of oil, steel, and scrap iron with Japan.

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In July 1941, the United States in response to Japan's occupation of French Indochina, put on hold Japanese assets

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At the time, Japan did not have the necessary natural resources an industrial nation required; therefore, the United States and the western parts of Europe were supplying Japan with these resources: coal, iron, steel, copper, rubber, and petroleum (Higgs). Without these resources, Japan would collapse in a matter of months. In order to sustain their military, they would need coal, iron, steel, and petroleum to supply their military. Japan had to act fast, or else their whole economy would crumble. On the islands that American took away from Japan during the imperialist stages in the late 19th century, such as Hawaii and the Philippians, had these resources.

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Japan took over many small islands in the Pacific such as Manchuria, China, the Philippines, Taiwan, Tonking, Peking, Shanghai, and Hong Kong (Doc B). Japan established a puppet state in Manchuria in 1932. A puppet state is controlling a state or country by another state or country done in secret. In 1938, Japan declares it’s policy to establish a “new order” in East Asia (Doc C). The “new order” that Japan announced in 1938 was to make East Asia’s power fall so that Japan could take East Asia over (Doc C).

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Japan had made it known by 1938 that they wanted to be ranked as a first rate nation, above the U.S and Great Britain. (Doc. C, A). In order to do this Japan needed to be free to capture china and all the islands in the Pacific. However, the U.S protested to Japanese aggression and started getting military prepared to stop it. The U.S congress voted to triple its naval fleet in 1940.

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Once the United States started pushing forward, the Japanese opened

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As the war waged on in Europe, Japan aimed to dominate Asia. The United States disagreed with this and demanded that Japan leave China. After the United States cut off the war supplies from Japan, the Japanese interpreted it as

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Japan was in fact a nation that had it Empire. In the early stages of the Meiji period Japan wished to improve national relations with China, Korea and other Asian countries. However Korea rejected the trade proposal (1830-1870). In 1876 the Japanese navy used the exact same strategy as the Americans to open trade.

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Picture in your mind a United States filled with safer citizens where lots of stores and banks worry less about the chance of robbery. This could happen if we allowed citizens the use of concealed handguns. I believe that since concealed handguns reduce crime, stop public shootings, and help people in times where law enforcement can't arrive soon enough, adults should have the right to own concealed handguns. One good reason is that allowing citizens to use concealed handguns reduces crime.

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