Foolish courage and economic constraints forced Japan to show Military Aggression Case Study 2022
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Foolish courage and economic constraints forced Japan to show Military Aggression
Japan’s aggression in the Second World War was an outcome of its trade-related constraints.
Factors like military influence over the democratic powers, selection of war as the means to
establish economic dominance and madness to prove a racial superiority over the western world
added fuel into the military ambitions of Japan.
When we study the history of Japan in the early ’30s of the same era, we find that after the great
recession of 1930s Japan left a strong mark in the textile and supplementary goods market of the
world where they defeated Britain and other countries in a price war. It was also the time when
Japan was running a puppet state in Manchuria by the virtue of its military power 1. To
consolidate its position in world trade, the Japanese government was planning to expand its
stakes in East Asia and some strategic locations in the western world. They were keen to practice
the western style of industrialization where the culture of forming colonies was rampant.
The aggression of Japan started in the early ’40s when China retaliated against the Japanese
sovereign and challenged its authority in the East Asian region, Japan faced a huge setback
because of this retaliation. At the same time, Britain and the USA also restricted the import of
Rubber, oil, and metal which were the biggest necessities of the country then. To come out of
this situation, Japan decided to show some aggression in some strategic areas to take control of
the trade by creating more colonies or puppet states. The motivations behind this military
1 Hilary Herbert.. Military Lessons of the Chino-Japanese War.
The North
American Review Vol. 160 , https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/25103536.pdf.
(1995)
Japan’s aggression in the Second World War was an outcome of its trade-related constraints.
Factors like military influence over the democratic powers, selection of war as the means to
establish economic dominance and madness to prove a racial superiority over the western world
added fuel into the military ambitions of Japan.
When we study the history of Japan in the early ’30s of the same era, we find that after the great
recession of 1930s Japan left a strong mark in the textile and supplementary goods market of the
world where they defeated Britain and other countries in a price war. It was also the time when
Japan was running a puppet state in Manchuria by the virtue of its military power 1. To
consolidate its position in world trade, the Japanese government was planning to expand its
stakes in East Asia and some strategic locations in the western world. They were keen to practice
the western style of industrialization where the culture of forming colonies was rampant.
The aggression of Japan started in the early ’40s when China retaliated against the Japanese
sovereign and challenged its authority in the East Asian region, Japan faced a huge setback
because of this retaliation. At the same time, Britain and the USA also restricted the import of
Rubber, oil, and metal which were the biggest necessities of the country then. To come out of
this situation, Japan decided to show some aggression in some strategic areas to take control of
the trade by creating more colonies or puppet states. The motivations behind this military
1 Hilary Herbert.. Military Lessons of the Chino-Japanese War.
The North
American Review Vol. 160 , https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/25103536.pdf.
(1995)
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