Manchuria .
Nanjing, basically eastern china.The Japanese wanted to conquer Beijing 'cause it's the capital of China... so they tried to invade that
Europe (mostly eastern), russia, poland, that area. Who did Italy, Germany, and Japan invade in World War II
No, Japan is much smaller than China population wise and in terms of area. Area: China- 9,596,961 km2 Japan- 377,915 km2 This means China is 9,219,046 km2 larger than Japan, or about 25.5 times larger than Japan. Population: China- 1,336,718,015 Japan- 126,475,664 This means China has 1,210,242,351 more people, or about 10.5 times the population of Japan.
It is right next to China, just across the Sea of Japan in Asia.
China and Russia are two larger countries close to Japan.
Manchuria, which is in northern China
The reason why China has become the coveted target of Japan is that China has a large territory and abundant resources, while Japan has a small land area and a very lack of resources. Another reason is that during Japan's transformation to industrialization, its economy developed rapidly, but China is still a closed country and a backward agricultural country. At that time, China was simply vulnerable. It was really sad that even Japan, a small bullet country, dared to invade. At that time, it was undoubtedly a once-in-a-thousand opportunity for Japan. Access to China's territory and wealth, so they also have the qualification to fight with Western powers, so they want to use China's territory to obtain the capital to squeeze into the list of world powers, so as to dominate the world.
Japanese Central China Area Army ended in 1938.
volcanoes from over time. Maybe not. It could be that the area that connected Japan & China was flooded with water.
At one time, Japan tried to add China to its empire.
The chinese defeated the area called Manchuria or Korea, so for a while, Korea was a part of Chinese land holdings. Japan was never part of China.
The real motive behind the greater East Asia co-prosperity sphere is that they wanted natural resources to fight with against China.