They wanted expansion to acquire more raw materials, which they needed to become an industrial power. During World War II they sought to occupy and control all of Asia.
1900 japan
No. Commonwealth countries were the colonies of Britain, and Japan was not one among them.
japan is comprised of two former European colonies!!!!!
Japan was fighting against German and Austrian colonies in China and the far east.
Formosa (Taiwan) and Korea.
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Japan's involvement in WWI was almost entirely battling German colonies in China, and in the peace talks and Versailles treaty it was decided that Japan would take control of the German colonies in Shandong. - j
Germany/ German colonies
Japan attacked the US, and later that same day attacked British colonies near Japan.
When Western countries forced Japan to open trading in the mid-nineteenth century, Japan moved towards modernization
Japan, Harlem, Chuck Norris
France ; japan ; the netherlands. except china