Japanese Expansionism Before and During World War Two (WWII) - Part 1
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Japan, nevertheless, fears the possibility of American competition, particularly in Manchuria, where she has been pursuing a policy by which foreign, including American, goods must be subordinated in that market to Japanese goods, and must be sold through Japanese firms. Potentially this policy is meaningless because, if China and Manchuria are to be modernized, no one country, surely not Japan, can supply either the quantity or the variety of goods and services required. Yet Japan's attitude is resented and has been accepted as a frontal attack on American trade. The Russians do not believe that the New Deal will succeed. They generally hold that it will be impossible for the United States to put its vast industrial and agrarian population back to work without developing foreign markets. They maintain that the capitalistic system of distribution makes it inevitable for the United States ultimately to seek such markets and China offers a favorable arena for American economic exploitation. Therefore, the argument proceeds, if the New Deal should fail, it will become necessary for the Unites States to enter the Chinese market aggressively. This the Japanese fear as well. Some Japanese go even further. They fear that if re-employment fails in the United States, a war with Japan may become an economic necessity. It is this fear which has played upon by Japanese apostles of a big Navy. But potentialities and fears of failure of recovery of the Unites States cannot altogether be accepted as a premise for a war. The potentialities of a China Market have always existed; yet no world war has occurred because of them. Nonetheless, Japan constantly finds new reasons for fearing the United States. Similarly, the United States discovers new reasons for distrusting Japan. These fears and distrusts are not grounded in the economics of the Pacific. They are psychological and historical; they are often without solution because they are intangible. Viscount Kikujiro Ishii once wrote: "Ever since Japan's entrance into the family of modern nations in the middle of the nineteenth century her diplomacy has striven, and still thrives, to attain two objectives - equality and security." In this search she has been notably assisted by the United States. After Commodore Perry, in command of an American fleet, opened Japan to Western economic and political processes, the United States in 1885 sent Townsend Harris to Japan as its first Council General. Undoubtedly it was Harrison who opened the eyes of the rulers of Japan to the world about them, to the dangers of European imperialism, to the necessity of bending their energies in the direction of equality and security. As soon as Japan emerged from her isolation, her perspective enemy was clearly Russia, which had already begun to move into Manchuria and Korea and the islands to the north of Japan. Japan was protected from Russia, in a manner that the Japanese cannot fail to recognize, by the attitude of the United States. John Hay's Open Door policy was aimed largely at Russian aggression in Manchuria. There can be no question that President Theodore Roosevelt gave the Anglo-Japanese Alliance tacit support. When war broke out between Russia and Japan in 1904, the United States helped to finance Japan, and Theodore Roosevelt defiantly indicated to Germany and France that if they supported Russia against Japan, as they had in 1895, Japan would receive the support of the Unites States and Great Britain. When it was advisable to end the war while Japan was still the victor, Roosevelt called a peace conference at Portsmouth and Japan gained an empire. Until that moment, no two countries could have been more friendly. Japan imitated American ways; the Unites States supported Japan's development as a modern State. Then began a series of misunderstandings which have not yet ceased Why fight Japan? By George E. Sokolsky Current History - February 1935
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twat,You are what expansionism stands for You Your other indian buddies,and chinks,
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Japanese and german people are the most easily manipulated people in the world. It's in their character. If the state tells you to throw yourself from a building you will do it.
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I nutted to this
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RIP Nanking victims. They got their punishment....
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anyone else see the swastica on the planes at 8:26
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Even to this day the Japanese government denies committing any war crimes in WWII. They rewrite their history books taught in schools and rename the Rape of Nanjing into Battle of Nanjing, they deny forcing Chinese and Korean women and girls into prostitution for the Japanese soldiers which they call Comfort Wives, they deny having Unit 731 and gruesomely biologically experimenting on civilians and POW. Google Unit 731, the experiments they did on human beings were truly the stuff of horror films and brings a chill to your spine.
Germany admitted wrongdoings in WWII against the Jews and even to this day German people live with war guilt from their grandparents' generation. Japanese people today still live completely oblivious of the atrocities their grandparents' generation did in WWII against the Koreans and Chinese, and still have a Japanese superiority mindset.
Even to this day, the Japanese government still officially celebrates their soldiers in WWII who committed the war crimes by visiting Yasukuni Shrine annually.
There are very good reasons why even to this day Japan is still the most hated and despised nation in Asia by all her neighbors. -
I think the loser of WWII in Asis is Europe and US (and Japan) and that winers were Asian countries and communist. After the WWII, Europe lost almost all colony settlements in Asia. Many Asian countries won independence and some of them head toward communism.
It was very cruel that U.S nailed Japan to the wall in WWII. However US should help Japan just after WWII, because US and Japan were not opposing countries each other indeed. US and Japan were cought in USSR's trap.
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What is the source of this documentary?
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A British made documentary, but why do they never mention that Japan's model for modernization was Britian? Japanese just imitate Britian to make an empire, but the Europeans were in the way in Asia, so Europeans have to be expelled. Also, they assumed that Japan was next to be colonized by Europeans. Of course Japan is afraid.
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Shouldn't be those Filipino freedom fighters personally shot dead by Douglas MacArthur when he was a railroad corps officers there deserved more to have their statues in their own country? How come I haven't seen any of them? Me too have been to that country, they all seemed friendly to Japanese.
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How dare you never mentioned the 500,000 Filipino freedom fighter murdered by the US military gov't led by A MacArthur and those personally shot dead by Douglas MacArthur when he was there as a railway corps officer after he graduated from West Point?
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I've been to the Philippines. I've seen statues of MacArthur, none of Homma or Yamashita.
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How dare you mot mention the 100,000 Filipinos who died in Manila in early '45, or the hundreds of thousands of Javanese & Malays who died working as slave labor in the Burma railway.
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What you meant was *very few Chinese DISAGREE with my statements* and you're one of them. Not just the Chinese & Koreans, but the Filipinos were ALSO invited and consulted. You remember Filipino president Manuel Quezon sent his senior gov't officials to Tokyo to negotiate the terms BRFORE the outbreak of the Pacific War, even such move was against the wish of those US policy makers? General M was ignored by Quezon on that matter. How dare you tell me the Filipinos were not consulted by Japan?
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Very few Chinese & very few Koreans will agree with with those statements.
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BS ! Totally not comparable. Your lack of knowledge in Asian history is evident. Yes the Chinese were repeatedly invited & consulted the whole time. China's senior VP Mr Wang Jiang Wei decided to cooperate with Japan, he joined & led the new Nanking Nationalist Gov't. Korea? Don't you know it was actually the Korean reformers who suggested the annexation after they witnessed how powerful Japan'd become after her successful reforms? Koreans wanted Japan's help to turn their country around.
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LOL! Did the Japs invite the Chinese, Koreans, Filipinos, Burmese, Malays, or anyone express their wishes about being part of the Japanese empire.
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You must be blind if you can't see how strikingly similar between The Munich Agreement 1938 and the *deal* of Korea the Western allies made with the Russians. In both cases, Czechoslovakia and Korea were neither invited to the meetings, nor consulted. Just like that, their fates had been decided by the small group of powers. Somebody else could have decided your fate when you were weak. The Koreans are still paying the price today. When is it going to be the end of this human tragedy?
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You forgot to mention US forces *murdered* many millions of Vietnamese & SE Asian civilians. People still getting killed by the bombs as of today. Tell me why you always use Japan to attack the USA ?
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Jap soldiers murdered over ten million Chinese civilians 1937-45, & millions more throughout East Asia. They were every bit as savage and bestial as their Nazi allies.
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