Japan wanted to control China for land and natural resources. The Japanese thought they were the "superrace" and wanted other countries to fear them.
By rapidly trying to seize control of everything that had valuable resources in the Pacific.
Japan had the resources for an attack on Pearl Harbor. They simply needed more resources to continue the war.
IF you mean why did Japan attack CHINA; the Japanese attacked China, because Japan is an island nation with few natural resources, and China has a lot of natural resources, so Japan attacked China to get it's resources to help the Japanese people.
Japan lacked many important Natural Resources, such as steel and oil. Rather than limited trade with other countries, Japan saw the chance to militarily seize countries that had resources they needed.
It made them attack more countries so they can get their natural resources back that they used up.Japan had no natural resources to speak of, every thing they used came from overseas. The Europeans and Americans had a strangle hold on all of the markets surrounding Japan and had a policy of deliberately excluding Japan from these markets. They were virtually forced into the war. This turned out to be a good move on the part of American industry in particular as they benefited big time after Japan fell to US control after WW2.
Japan and US.
Resources
Japan on one of the world's leading industrialized countries fur to its skilled and innovative human resources
Japan's army was based upon Germany's navy which was based near Great Britain's navy. But that wasn't the only thing Japan copied. They were also were introduced to the idea of imperialism. Second Answer: Japan desperately needed oil and natural resources. Their lands did not have the natural resources nor did they have oil. They chose to invade China and other lands that had the resources they needed. They murdered many Chinese people who resisted the Japanese. The US placed an oil embargo on Japan demanding the Japanese to leave China. This prompted Japan to attack the USA.
Foreign countries wanted to trade with Japan because the Japanies had valuable resources such as silk.
Resources and "slave" laborers.